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Off to Agile IT Experience Tomorrow.
Jun 24th
Well, a colleague and I are off to Agile IT Experience in Reston, VA tomorrow. It runs Thursday, Friday, and a half day Saturday. Im so ready for it. There look to be a lot of very good sessions and I plan on attending all of them that I can.
The sleepy software bug.
Jun 18th
First thing this morning I got an email with ‘high’ priority. The subject was ‘The Learning Center seems to be down’. We’ve been having a lot of problems with the product that underlies our ‘Learning Center’ application lately (we’re currently making a major switch) so I thought it was one of the run-of-the-mill problems we knew exactly how to fix. How wrong I was. Before I explain the story, I should give you some background info…
Cue dreamy effect and go back in time…
Unit Testing: The proving grounds for the team
May 8th
After weeks of development a change in a fundamental aspect of the domain has surfaced. To outsiders (read: the business) this change may seem insignificant, but to people who write lines of code, it is understandably a relatively big issue.
Value Objects vs Tool/Framework Bean Req’s
May 8th
A recurring scenario is annoying me. The scenario is this: Create a value object, in the Domain-Driven Design sense, and use it in a Hibernate persisted domain model. Following the DDD style, a value object shouldn’t have a default constructor, because its state should be present upon it’s creation as arguments to its constructor. It should be immutable and have no setters for its state. This won’t work if you’re using any tools/frameworks that require default constructors on the objects in your domain model. Read the rest of this entry »
I’ll be heading to Agile ITX this summer
May 1st
For a long time my career had me doing a whole lot of product installations and integrations where domain models and agile development didn’t necessarily fit. Any conferences or training I attended was based on specific product issues Read the rest of this entry »
