22 September, 2011. It was a Thursday. A long time ago, when I first started blogging with LosTechies, I wrote up a few posts on Dependency Inversion and Dependency Injection, and how I finally ...

13 October, 2016. It was a Thursday. A while ago, I blogged about using MediatR to build a processing pipeline for requests in the form of commands and queries in your application. MediatR is a ...

13 May, 2014. It was a Tuesday. Domain events are one of the final patterns needed to create a fully encapsulated domain model – one that fully enforces a consistency boundary and invariants. The need ...

8 October, 2012. It was a Monday. So I’m over Repositories, and definitely over abstracting your data layer, but where does that leave us? I don’t think creating an abstraction over your ORM provides ...

21 January, 2016. It was a Thursday. As I work towards the 4.2 release of AutoMapper, I got a little inspiration. Over the past year or so I’ve given some talks/podcasts about a long-lived open source ...

11 February, 2009. It was a Wednesday. I found the Motivator this morning. It lets you create your own motivational pictures. So, here’s my first run at creating the SOLID software development ...

5 May, 2015. It was a Tuesday. CQRS is a simple pattern – two objects for command/queries where once there was one. These days just about every system I build utilizes CQRS, as it’s a natural ...

11 March, 2014. It was a Tuesday. Even after all these years, I’m still a big fan of ORMs. One common complaint over the years is people using ORMs use the tool identically for both reads and writes.

27 January, 2016. It was a Wednesday. The Fixie test framework has been in production use for over a year now, and I’ve had a chance to work with it on a number of real world projects as well as a ...

Our clients install our product on different environments. Some of them have 32bit server OS others have pure 64bit environments. Due to the lack of a 64bit version of a driver we use we have to run ...

Way too many times I encounter applications that claim to have a domain (model) and that domain driven design has been used to develop it, but in reality what I find is a collection of entities or ...

29 January, 2010. It was a Friday. When performing a merge in git, you might see the message: warning: Cannot merge binary files: HEAD:somefile.dll vs. otherbranch:somefile.dll Auto-merging ...