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Posted Tuesday, May 7, 2013
I’m often asked about what teams doing Domain-Driven Design (DDD) should do in the way of documentation.The question What types of Written Design Documents are used in DDD projects?) came up on Stack Overflow and I started to write a response, but
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Posted Friday, February 15, 2013
On Monday night at our DDD Denver meetup we ended up having a valuable and lively group discussion using a modified “Lean Coffee” format. The four questions we covered (in order) were:
Where to start in developing a domain model?
What is t
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Posted Thursday, February 14, 2013
I had content in Word documents that I needed to convert to Asciidoc for our book. Here are the steps I found to work best:
Save Word doc as HTML
Encode as UTF-8
Use pandoc to convert from HTML to AsciiDoc
Use Sublime Text 2 search and replace (using
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Posted Thursday, February 7, 2013
Saw directory listing coloring at Golden Ruby Users Group this week, and needed to have it!
LsColors
LS_COLORS='di=1:fi=0:ln=31:pi=5:so=5:bd=5:cd=5:or=31:mi=0:ex=35:*.rpm=90'
export LS_COLORS
ls, colors and Termina
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Posted Thursday, February 7, 2013
I’ve found the Ruby Koans to be brilliant for exposing a learner to aspects of the language that are not obvious, or even weird, at first glance.
Indexing Ruby Arrays
For example, let’s look at a koan for accessing array elements:
def tes
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Posted Wednesday, February 6, 2013
In my effort to master Ruby this year, I started this morning working through Ruby Koans. I just completed these tests and was intrigued by the comment in the second koan:
def test_some_system_objects_always_have_the_same_id
assert_equal 0, false.obj
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Posted Monday, February 4, 2013
Why Octopress?
Here are 4 good reasons from AlBlue’s blog to consider using Octopress for a technical blog:
Jekyll-based
Markdown content
Stylish
Plugins
See also Octopress Is Pretty Great, which has a great description of not only the posit
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Posted Friday, February 1, 2013
This is a review of the book Implementing Domain-Driven Design by Vaughn Vernon, based on the Safari Books Online rough cut edition. The book is also currently available for preorder on Amazon.com, with a scheduled release date of February 14, 201
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Posted Wednesday, January 2, 2013
I noticed today on my MBP running Mountain Lion that using “Open With” (control+click on a file in Finder) showed duplicate entries for the file.
I’m unsure as to what I did that caused this problem to happen, though a recent thread o
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Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) employs the approach of specification by example. Cucumber is such an amazing BDD tool because it’s so good at mapping stories and acceptance criteria to automated functional tests. This is a hands-on workshop using Cucum
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Successful software development is about building the right product at the right time for your customers. This means focusing attention on the right places in the portfolio of projects and products that your company provides, and optimizing the entire val
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Come on a guided tour of how applying Domain-Driven Design (DDD) building block patterns can make your code cleaner, more expressive, and more amenable to change. We cover examples of DDD patterns such as entities, value objects, closure of operations an
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Not every part of a software system will be well-designed. How do you know where to put the time and effort to refine the design, or refactor existing code? Learn how strategic Domain-Driven Design (DDD) patterns can show you how to know which parts of yo
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This presentation explores the nature of motivation and the place of metrics and measurement in software development, and how lean software development principles and practices shed light on motivation and metrics and how they can be used to support deep
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This presentation seeks to provide a solid introduction to the fundamentals of DDD. Learn why modeling a complex business domain in software is so advantageous to your business and ways in which your team can go about delivering software models to give yo
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Many of the problems encountered in scaling, parallelizing and distributing systems that tend to be addressed in ad-hoc ways are actually deeply connected with the manner in which the business domain has been modeled. Domain-Driven Design (DDD) has rich m
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Cucumber enables a team to collaboratively create specific examples that specify what the system should do from the user's perspective. Product Owners, developers and testers collaborate together to write acceptance criteria in natural language and unobtr
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Learn what it takes to move beyond mere management to inspiring leadership. Many never receive any leadership training before being thrust into a leadership role. This presentation gives you a set of frameworks and thinking tools to help you understand va
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