Archive for October, 2008

Every developer must read

October 14th, 2008

Last month I ordered Jimmy Nilsson’s book Applying Domain Drive Design and Patterns along with a couple of others including Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture, they arrived about a 2 weeks ago.

Finally this week I have started to read ADDP and have been struggling to put it down to do anything else. IMHO this is one of the best Technical books ever written. As a newbie to DDD there is no better starting point than with this book.

Jimmy’s style of writing is very easy to read and understand. The content of course is brilliant, I have just finished reading chapter 2 and feel a few years wiser.

My advice to any developer looking for enlightenment is to read Jimmy’s book. Perfecting the use of Domain Driven Design is not something that comes easy. Even in the smallest application the value of using it is immense. I have a long way to go to become a good developer, and reading this book is going to be a big help in that process.

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Microsoft Distributed Application Server aka Dublin

October 2nd, 2008

Mary-Jo shares some of her insight into some of the news around Oslo that may be announced around PDC 08. What interests me is that in my last post I speculated that the Process Server could be some sort of service bus implementation, which seems to be spot on. Yes “Dublin” is the code name for Microsoft’s Distributed Application Server, but hey is that not just a fancy name for or .

I guess when PDC rolls around in a few weeks and more news around what Oslo is and when the bits roll out to developers and architects to see, touch, feel and smell what the CSD and Dev Division guys have come up with is when the real questions need to be asked. All well and good to speculate, I just hope that some parts of the Oslo effort will touch on some of my desires.

 

UPDATE: Mike Taulty has posted links to a whitepaper and a screencast that explain more details about .net 4.0

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