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  • DDD and Aggregates

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    I started reading Eric Evans’ book Domain Driven Design.  (Seemed like one of those foundation books you have to have read if you want to be a certain type of developer)  I decided to give it a go after I got about halfway through the “Domain Driven Design Quickly” pdf – it seemed interesting enough…

  • AlamoCoders

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    Attended an AlamoCoders meeting tonight.  Interesting talk on jQuery by John Teague. I’d previously seen Front-End Developers doing stuff with it, but I didn’t really “get” it-not that I’d looked into it, or tried… what with struggling to pick up nHibernate, DI, and that whole world of things, I felt like my plate was already…

  • Working Effectively with Legacy Code

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    I mentioned this book in an earlier blog, and I’ve started to read it. (I was somewhere around 2/3 through Martin Fowler’s Refactoring, and in the weeds of arcane refactoring patterns when I decided to switch out) I’m maybe 70 pages in, and I have to say Working Effectively With Legacy Code thus far seems…

  • Another book on the stack…

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    Working Effectively With Legacy Code is supposed to be fantastic.. and who doesn’t work with legacy code? I know I do…

  • Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C#

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    i hear it’s a good book- another one to add to the stack of books-to-read…

  • Refactoring

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    Currently reading Refactoring by Martin Fowler. Yeah, any programmer worth the space he/she takes up is going to do some version of refactoring, but this is really attacking refactoring with a systematic, safe, testable approach. It seems like a better way of approaching it than the normal way: Oh god, this code sucks, it makes…

  • Demeter’s Law

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    So, I’m still working my way through The Pragmatic Programmer (yeah, I’ve been busy) and just went through the chapter on Demeter’s Law. I have to say, I’m a little skeptical. The general idea is that you only use objects and methods of objects that your current method(or class) “owns” directly, not things that other…

  • The Pragmatic Programmer

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    I’m about 3/4 of the way through this. I’d heard a lot of it from other people so there’s not a lot that’s stunningly new, but it’s a good introduction to a lot of better principles. In particular, I’d heard about the DRY principle, but it was good to actually read about it. Some of…