I recently started learning about domain driven design, CQRS and event sourcing. Up until now, I have been mostly involved in projects that use a ‘classic’ N tier/layer architecture with a relational database. As projects become more complex, I noticed that this model doesn’...
Over the last decade, almost all software has made huge leaps in usability. Browsers have gotten tabs, you can do everything off-line and interfaces are slicker than ever. And then there’s the windows command-prompt. Nothing has changed over the last decade or longer. It...
When doing some bug fixing recently I, more or less accidently, stumbled upon a really easy and useful technique to quickly test and fix an application. Since then, I have applied the technique a few times and the results are really astonishing. Since I found...
One of the biggest problems in software development is communication. Although we have a lot of technology at hand, the more complex a project is, the harder it is to communicate efficiently. In order to improve the interaction between clients, project managers, analysts and developers,...
Unit tests become more valuable if they are expressive and flexible. A good unit test should not only test your code, but also document it. Creating expressive and flexible unit tests is not always easy however. The reason of this is that there’s an...