12 August, 2008. It was a Tuesday. A question came up on the ALT.NET message board asking whether Value Objects should be used across service boundaries. Of course, the conversation took several ...

13 October, 2016. It was a Thursday. A while ago, I blogged about using MediatR to build a processing pipeline for requests in the form of commands and queries in your application. MediatR is a ...

7 April, 2016. It was a Thursday. Specifically note how we expose port 80. This will be important once we use a load balancer in front of the sample application in the cloud. We can now build this ...

6 April, 2011. It was a Wednesday. A common point of confusion when getting started with Git on Windows is line endings, with Windows still using CR+LF while every other modern OS uses LF only. Git ...

2 July, 2015. It was a Thursday. The talk I gave at NDC Oslo 2015 is up on SOLID architecture in slices not layers: ...

14 December, 2012. It was a Friday. I do my best to support the people that use my open source projects. I don’t always do things right, I don’t always respond in a timely manner. Sometimes I just ...

1 June, 2016. It was a Wednesday. In many of my applications, the UI and API gravitate towards task-oriented UIs. Instead of “editing an invoice”, I “approve an invoice”, with specialized models, ...

13 May, 2014. It was a Tuesday. Domain events are one of the final patterns needed to create a fully encapsulated domain model – one that fully enforces a consistency boundary and invariants. The need ...

This is the third installment to the series: RabbitMQ for Windows. In the last installment, we discussed some basic messaging concepts and created our first RabbitMQ application. In this installment, ...

Way too many times I encounter applications that claim to have a domain (model) and that domain driven design has been used to develop it, but in reality what I find is a collection of entities or ...

22 April, 2014. It was a Tuesday. I’ve been a supporter and user of NHibernate for nearly 10 years. While not part of the original NHibernate Mafia, I’ve long enjoyed NHibernate’s ability to rich, ...

31 October, 2012. It was a Wednesday. I often hear people say something like “if you need it once, build it. If you need it twice, abstract it.” People often say then in the context of the “DRY” – or ...