Thanks to everyone who came out for the session to listen to tales of the NHibernate Mafia and how persistence ignorance can improve your domain model. Here is a list of recommended resources: NHibernate NHibernate Plugin Castle Active Record Active Writer Domain-Driven Design by Eric Evans Applying Domain-Driven Design and Patterns by Jimmy Nilsson You can download […]
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The website is now live and accepting registrations. We’re accepting 100 lucky participants to take part in this unique event. Sign up now at http://www.altnetconf.com. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, go back and read this. Hope to see you there!!!
Coming to an Edmonton library near you… One night only… How does NHibernate enable a persistence ignorant domain model? Why would you want a persistence ignorant domain model? Why does the NHibernate Mafia feel so strongly about persistence ignorant domain models? And who are the NHibernate Mafia anyway? This session will answer all these questions and […]
After my DNIC video interview, John just wanted to know more about agile development. So we did it again, this time podcast-style. You can check out the audio interview here.
Coming to Austin, TX… October 5-7, 2007… Brought to you by the NHibernate Mafia themselves… 3 days of ALT.NET mayhem… See behaviours twisted, tests tortured, dependencies injected, object-relations mapped, and DSLs like you’ve never seen them before… More seriously, what exactly is ALT.NET? David Laribee coined the term to describe developers who look outside the “official […]
There are many paths to software enlightenment, to attaining the state of development nirvana knows as ZenBoo. Masters of the art of ZenBoo can invert dependencies at will, value coding to interface* not implementation, favour composition over inheritance,** and respect the open-closed principle.*** On your journey to becoming a ZenBoodist, you will encounter many revelations […]
Jean-Paul reappears on dnrTV to talk about Model-View-Presenter, which is a cool pattern for abstracting away your UI implementation technology. For example you can re-use the same Model and Presenter code with ASP.NET and WinForms. Additionally the view ends up being really dumb, which means that parsing, validation, and other logic traditionally in your ASPX code-behind or WinFom […]
I’ve had this kicking around in my bookmarks for ages, but I thought I’d share… Have you ever had to diagram in UML using Visio? It’s a painful process. The UML add-in for Visio has a number of deficiencies: Doesn’t support the latest spec (UML 2.0) Even with the spec it supports, it gets some […]
