The day is over. The bar is still going strong, but too much smoke for me… and I’ve been in enough sessions on the day after a night of partying at a conference and I just dont have it in…
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…
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…
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.
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,…
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
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
Here in the midwest we were inundated with a massive snow storm this weekend. I took the time I was stuck inside to finally give Groovy (and Grails) a day long once over. Recently I have checked out Scala and…
A few years ago, I worked as a consultant at a company that used DB2/400 as its main database platform. The company did not have journaling ‘turned on’ so their database platform did not support transactions/commit control. This did seem odd…
One of the cool things about the new job I will _officially_ be starting in November is that we are going to look to use open source tools first. The biggest choice we have to make on that front is…
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