Stardate 2011.6: Interesting Exercises
Lately, I've been delving a lot into DDD, or domain-driven design. I find it to be the single most elegant way to tackle really complicated systems. Some people say it's a lot of work, especially just...
View ArticleStardate 2011.6.2: Capptain's Law
Brooks' Law states that adding people to an already late project will make the project later. I think there's a similar law that I pose here for the first time (to my knowledge, please correct me in...
View ArticleStardate 2011.7.1: Netbooks
I recently purchased a netbook for my wife. They're amazingly useful, but also pretty fun and cute. I use it largely to watch Hulu while I'm exercising on the elliptical. What experiences have you had...
View ArticleStardate 2011.10.1: Revenge of the Commons
In my day, I've seen a lot of shoddy architectures. From a COM system that read data as strings from the user-interface, converted it to its inherent datatypes, then turned it back into a string and...
View ArticleStardate 2011.11.1: Interface Segregation Principle vs Common Sense
The Interface Segregation Principle is an incredibly useful and powerful principle of software design. The ISP basically says that you should keep relatively lightweight interfaces so that when a...
View ArticleStardate 2011.12.1: Hasty Decisions
I recently stumbled upon the blog of GM Mark Bluvshtein. He's a relatively new Canadian grand master (I think) of chess who is terrifically pragmatic. It occurred to me that most good chess players...
View ArticleStardate 2011.13.1: Interfeces - Property-only Interfaces
When it comes to abstraction, I always try to be very careful. The abstraction should not dictate the types that the implementing classes should contain. This is very dangerous, and is one of the...
View ArticleStardate 2011.14.1: Friday's Book
I like to read. Heck, I love reading. Reading is also incredibly important. As such, I'd like to start a kind of Friday book club, where I review a book I've read or am reading and make recommendations...
View ArticleStardate 2011.19.1: Domain Events - Powerful, Stupidly Named
Today, I thought I'd point out something that is terrifically obvious: Domain events may be the strongest concept to come to domain-driven programming since the ubiquitous language. I almost always...
View ArticleStardate 2011.31.1: Why Me(ssage Brokers)?
Boarding the Enterprise (architecture) Enterprise-level application development is often much different from non-enterprise application development. It requires a lot more discipline, and a lot better...
View ArticleStardate 2011.63.1: Design stenches - Rigidity
A lot of people are aware of what others call design smells. I hate using the term smell, so I use the term stenches, but they amount to the same thing: Something that reeks up the place somethin'...
View ArticleImplementation hiding - it's important
I've decided to do away with the annoying naming scheme. For this post, I'd like to talk about something that's very near and dear to me - implementation hiding. This is the concept in object-oriented...
View ArticleVirtual properties - they're just dumb
Have you ever seen code of the form: // Make it virtual so that implementers can provide their own version for them to use public virtual IManager Manager { get; set; } ? Code like this just angers me....
View ArticleKoans of Programming: Interface are for me, not for you
"Do not define interfaces to tell the consumer of your system how to use your objects. Define interfaces to tell the consumer of your system how your system will use their objects." This little gem of...
View ArticleWriting stable code
Lately, I've been a tad obsessed with only writing stable code. Oh, sure, it'll be unstable until I realize how to fix it, but I wanted to write a little bit about how I stabilize the code I'm writing,...
View ArticleIt's okay for your UI to know some business process
It annoys me when people make arguments that the UI should have absolutely no connection whatsoever to the business processes of a system. To me, this is a far too crippling restraint. Is your UI also...
View ArticleOn Problem Solving
Welcome back to our regularly scheduled programming. Recently, I was rereading an old, old post over at the GoodMath blog (http://scientopia.org/blogs/goodmath/) dealing with the Pumping Lemma and...
View ArticleThey Win Either Way
I've been thinking about the ridiculous stunt pulled by House Republican'ts a lot lately. To any sane person, we realize they just blew off their own foot with their own gun. But it's deeper than that,...
View ArticleThe Cost of a Compliment
What is the cost of a compliment? This question occupied my mind as I walked along the Hudson today on my way to work. I thought of it because there was a person dressed quite nicely and I wanted to...
View ArticleThe Art of Rhetoric, or Tips for Developer Presentations
I consider myself to be a master presenter. I have given presentations to numerous audiences, and have a plethora of different subject areas presented on under my belt. I thought I'd list out a few...
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