A little earlier today I found myself explaining Aggregate Roots and Anemic Domain Models to a couple of developers here, and I wished I had my copy of Domain Driven Design to hand to show them what I was explaining ... then I remembered that InfoQ published an *excellent* online book called " Domain...

Here's a conversation I just had with another developer who is struggling to get his team to adopt some agile practices: developer : if you were starting from scratch, which would you think is more important to setup first? CI or a unit testing process? me : unit testing developer : wow developer...

A long while ago I got a licence for NDepend ... I had used it previously but only on the trial version, where it had proved very useful in giving me a some pretty graphs that made sense to managment when my words did not. I haven't actually got around to using it until this morning, when I thought...

When I first graduated from college I worked on embedded systems where the process was a formal, military grade process.  When developing software I typically thought about what document I had to write next and what document(s) I may be missing.  In general, the MIL standards turned me off...

Brad Wilson mentioned on the TDD mailing list that the waste and inefficiency within the software industry was akin to the house building industry. I'm sure in some respects he is right, but in a more fundamental way I disagree. An average layman off the street hiring a builder can ask them to build...

I recently got brought on board to a new client where, true to form, a project was in a state of failure - everybody sort of knew it, but nobody would say it out loud. What Was Going Wrong? After my initial assessment, I made a quick decision that the major thing holding everyone back was an early decision...

We're all familiar with the Aesop's fable of the tortoise and the hare . In the story, the hare, who is in every way is faster than the tortoise, loses a race to the tortoise. The main principle of the story is that slow and steady wins the race. In my development I am shooting to be a tortoise...

If you have not hear, Karl Seguin has authored a great, short eBook which he is giving away free to the world.  This book is based of his blog series of the same title. Do yourself a favor and go download this book, it is pretty short and is a great read.  There are great nuggets of information...

I finally got around to downloading and playing with the forthcoming release of Rhino Mocks v3.5 (more info here from Ayende). The major changes to this version is that the syntax has been revamped to allow for the new language features in .Net 3.5.  Another big change with this release is that...

As the discussion on the altdotnet list continued ( some of it around my blog yesterday ), it became apparent that some people didn't want to use an IoC container - but more confusing was that their objection to the whole pattern was that they thought the IoC container in here meant I was writing...