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Changing Lanes

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

DesignInDrive.com is being retired, but no fear, the madness continues at www.indomitablehef.com. I’m combining the posts from this blog, and continuing to post about software development, and whatever else is on my mind.

Welcome!

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

If you’re new here, and you want to start reading the posts in order, here they are:

Design in Drive
Process and Design
So, What are our design goals?
What is a Domain Model?
How Should We Then Live?
Design Patterns
Design Patterns: Now What?
The Waterfall Must Die
Iterative and Incremental Development
Active Stakeholder Participation
Refactoring
Test Driven Development
Agile Implications

…what most people have to deal with…is […]

Eric Evans on Domain Driven Design (again)

Monday, November 12th, 2007

A full-length video presentation from Eric Evans on DDD: putting the model to work
I attended the DDD BOF (Birds-of-a-Feather) group at the QCon conference, hosted by Eric. Some of the things that resonated with me from that session:
1. Look for Pain Points
It should be a given that not all parts of a large, complex system […]

QCon San Francisco, 2007

Monday, November 12th, 2007

I just returned from the QCon conference in San Francisco, which was completely AWESOME! So, hopefully I’ll be posting a lot more in the coming days/weeks about the things that I saw/heard/learned there. Stay Tuned.

TDD Primer: Video

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

From ARCast.tv, a Test-Driven Development Primer with Peter Provost. (click “Watch”)
This 5 minute video does a fantastic job of introducing and reinforcing the idea of TDD. I plan to add it to my tool belt of evangelizing tools, and make all my friends watch it with me.

How do you know when it’s working?

Tuesday, October 9th, 2007

From a TDD Fanboy’s viewpoint, how you know your approach to TDD or just plain unit testing is working? - Jeremy Miller [codebetter]
Some good thoughts in the comments, too…

TDD == TFD, and WWTDDD?

Monday, October 8th, 2007

In recent discussions with colleagues about Test Driven Development, I was reminded of the importance of the “Driven” part of Test Driven Development. When I first heard about TDD, I naturally got excited about it. It sounds great. It’s obvious, really, once you see it. Obviously the way things should be.
But then reality sets in. […]

Source Code for .Net Framework Libraries to be released later this year

Friday, October 5th, 2007

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/10/03/releasing-the-source-code-for-the-net-framework-libraries.aspx

Acceptance Tests

Friday, October 5th, 2007

This post is all “out of order”, since I should probably talk about User Stories first, but I feel guilty for not posting often enough, and when I have something to post, I reckon I’d better just throw it out there…so here goes.
Read up on User stories here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_story
For every User Story, we should have […]

Domain Driven Design

Monday, September 24th, 2007

An interview with Eric Evans on Domain Driven Design. [infoQ]

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