The Principles of Pragmatic Software Architecture
What's pragmatic software architecture about? What makes it pragmatic? These are a few questions I'll try to address in this post.A lot has been written in terms of pragmatic architecture. The...
View ArticleThe Broken Promise of ORM Frameworks
How many times have you heard the words: "NHibernate writes better SQL than I do"?I've heard those words a number of times, mostly from people who proud themselves for being masters of domain driven...
View ArticleThe Future of eLearning
I'm going to try to put on my visionary hat for a second and talk about the future of the eLearning industry.In order to understand where we're heading, we need to understand where we are today. What...
View ArticlePrimer - How To Write Testable Code
This is the first article in the Primer series. The Primer series will mostly be devoted to practical advise on various topics in software architecture and development.This week I'll show you how to...
View ArticleCommon Mistakes in Agile Development
You'll hear a lot of project managers nowadays swearing they are applying an agile methodology. But are they really?I came across a number of mistakes people commonly make when applying agile, or when...
View ArticleDistributed Caching in Enterprise Applications
This week we're getting back to an architecture topic.Caching is one of the most neglected architecture concerns in enterprise applications. Not susprisingly, most people will think of it simply as a...
View ArticleUsing Transactions with .Net/SQL Server
I was recently debugging a piece of .Net code that called into a legacy stored procedure that managed its own transaction. Turns out the .Net code was recently changed to utilize the .Net transaction...
View ArticleTechnology Review: NServiceBus
This week I'll do the first in the Technology Review series. In this article I'll give you an overview of an open source service bus framework for .Net called NServiceBus. The man behind this framework...
View ArticleValue Proposition in Distributed Version Control Systems
While they've been around for a while, they haven't really come into focus until recently. It seems they're becoming more and more mainstream, pretending to completely replace centralized version...
View ArticleTechnology Review: Architecture Analysis in Visual Studio 2010
I recently had a chance to review Visual Studio 2010 RC. I was mostly interested in new architecture analysis capabilities that come in the form of Architecture Explorer and dependency graph support.I...
View ArticleOverloads On Interfaces = Code Vomit
Whenever I see overloaded methods on an interface I puke in my mouth a little bit. Imagine seeing something like this:public interface IPlayer { void Play(IMusic music); void Play(IMusic music, int...
View ArticleConstruction Interfaces - Why We Need Them
Most object-oriented languages have a concept of an interface - the contract for a type, usually a class, that defines it's public operations i.e. behavior.But not all of them have the ability to...
View ArticleSimple Economics of Agile Planning
Professor Philippe Kruchten, in his teaching, describes what is to me the most brilliant explanation of simple economics of agile planning I've ever run onto. If you haven't had a chance to listen to...
View ArticlePragmatic Skills Software Architecture Training Center
Pragmatic Skills is an online training center for software architecture and software development.Visit the The Pragmatic Skills website, at http://pragmaticskills.com to find out more information about...
View ArticleEnterprise-Scale Application Architecture Course
The Enterprise-Scale Application Architecture Course from Pragmatic Skills is available for purchase. You can find the detailed syllabus for the course and a link to purchase at...
View ArticleSOLID Principles of Technical Design Course
The SOLID Principles of Technical Design course is available for purchase from Pragmatic Skills.Course syllabus can be found...
View ArticleArchitecture should not prescribe. It should empower.
Let's call this a philosophy. What do I mean by empower, not prescribe?I'm arguing that an architecture that enables solutions is ultimately better than an architecture that prescribes one. Whatever...
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