24 February, 2010. It was a Wednesday. Our application complexity has hit its tipping point, and we decide to move past anemic domain models to rich, behavioral models. But what is this anemic domain ...

26 November, 2008. It was a Wednesday. This post is part of the November 2008 Pablo’s Topic Of The Month (PTOM) – Design Patterns and will primarily outline the State pattern, with an Enumeration or ...

24 May, 2011. It was a Tuesday. I’ve built a few dozen security mechanisms in my career. Unfortunately, I kept getting it wrong, hence the need to keep building them. Over the years, though, I learned ...

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 ...

1 November, 2015. It was a Sunday. Earlier this year I joined a development team which chose Entity Framework for the persistence needs of a new greenfield project. While I’ve worked on a few projects ...

18 June, 2013. It was a Tuesday. One of the keys to having maintainable tests are to make sure that tests are isolated and reproducible. For unit tests, this is easy as long as we stay away from ...

18 September, 2009. It was a Friday. I’m getting more and more requests around the area of two-way mapping, meaning you’d do something like: Product being an entity, I can’t for the life of me ...

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 ...

12 April, 2015. It was a Sunday. In this post I have discussed CQRS, an architectural pattern from a high level perspective. CQRS is one of my favorite patterns when it comes to complex line of ...

12 August, 2008. It was a Tuesday. A question came up on the ALT.NET message board asking whether Value Objects should be used across service boundaries. Of course, the conversation took several ...

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 ...

3 September, 2009. It was a Thursday. One of the major structural patterns encountered in DDD (and one of the most argued about) is the Repository pattern. You’ve created a persistent domain model, ...