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Last week I had the pleasure of attending the SD Best Practices conference in Boston. I learned a lot and met some good folks. While I was there, I published a series of daily summaries/reports about…
Previously, I mentioned I was working on an example of using Visual Studio to create a concrete domain model using object thinking, and here it is. The domain I ended up modeling was that of a shared event calendar, including event registration and agenda…
I finally got around to finishing The Timeless Way of Building, by Christopher Alexander (most well known in software for being the source of the patterns movement).  The last part of the book is called "The Way" to build things.  His focus…
When searching recently so as to provide further reading for "domain model" in a recent post, I was quite surprised to find that there seemed to be no good definition readily available (at least not by Googling "domain model"). Since…
I finally got a chance to start looking at the blog posts that have been piling up in my Newsgator for a few months now, and I was pleasantly surprised by probably the best thoughts on SOA I've seen in a long time. I'm really glad that Rocky…
Thanks to a sharp co-worker of mine, I was recently introduced to "Magic Ink: Information Software and the Graphical Interface," by Bret Victor. It was quite an interesting read; Victor makes a lot of good points. For instance, he suggests that…
As I sit here on my deck, enjoying the cool autumn breeze1, I thought, what better thing to write about than Web services! Well, no, actually I am just recalling some stuff that's happened lately. On the MSDN Architecture forums and in some coding…