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OOA/OOD is not Domain Driven Design
Analyzing functional requirements for your application to capture what and how your application should work is not necessarily domain driven design. Yes, both techniques leverage the domain model pattern to structure responsibilities in code. My tip is...
Posted: Aug 26 2009, 05:15 AM by p.gielens | with 266 comment(s)
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DEVs and DBAs Unite
Some of my clients have/had challenges embracing object-relational mapping data access API’s. I’ve experienced this with introducing Neo, IBATIS, NHibernate, LLBLGen Pro, LINQ to SQL and Entity Framework in projects for our clients. As with most things...
Application Architecture Guide, 2nd Edition
The Patterns & Practices team is working on the upcoming release of its Application Architecture Guide, 2nd Edition which should arrive late summer this year. One of the areas the team seems to be concentrating on is Domain-Driven Design (DDD). A...
Why ASP.NET MVC?
I love the summaries on InfoQ. Earlier this week I received a presentation by one of the customer’s developers. Basically they used MVC for a spreadsheet type application. The answer to the question “what made you guys decide to use MVC for this applications...
Posted: May 06 2009, 07:43 AM by p.gielens | with 21 comment(s)
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Entity Framework Tutorial
You don’t know anything about the Entity Framework or didn’t get around installing it on your box and pour the Northwind data onto a screen? This book could give you a great jumpstart into the Entity Framework. There are a lot of Entity Framework books...
Posted: Mar 24 2009, 03:29 PM by p.gielens | with 5 comment(s)
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SDN Conference 2008
The Software Development Conference 2008 was great. I gave two talks this year. The first was in a chalk & talk format titled “Understanding the ADO.NET Entity Framework Architecture and its Implications on your Application Architecture”. The audience...
A welcome change
I’ve been doing my best to do other things lately and completely missed this terrific news. Opening up the development process of the Entity Framework V2 and the input from these smart guys should guarantee success.
Business of Today is the Infrastructure of Tomorrow
Regardless of whether I agree with Jeffrey Palermo in his answer to the question: How do we ensure the long-term maintainability of our systems in the face of constantly changing infrastructure? Jeffrey first gives his definition of long-term maintainability...
LINQ to SQL - TOP 5 + 1 of problems
Anko Duizer is spot on with his post on the top 5 problems with LINQ to SQL . I’d like to take this opportunity to express my biggest concern with LINQ to SQL. #6 LINQ to SQL is intended for direct 1-1 mapping of a Microsoft SQL server database to .NET...
Posted: Mar 25 2008, 10:37 AM by p.gielens | with 12 comment(s)
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Putting More into Data and Less in Code
What does it mean to put more of our applications into data and putting less in code? Are WCF and WPF early examples of this thinking in which we put more and more of the application in configuration. It would be interesting to learn more about what Microsoft...
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