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 ...

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 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 ...

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, ...

12 May, 2009. It was a Tuesday. Since we’re a big user of IoC containers, namely StructureMap (which was obviously a big inspiration in the design of the configuration), I tried to make AutoMapper IoC ...

There has been some discussion in the past on the MvcContrib mailing list about creating an plug-in framework and plugins but I do not think we had enough of the pieces in place to do this properly. I ...

20 July, 2016. It was a Wednesday. Part of the release of ASP.NET Core is a new DI framework that’s completely integrated with the ASP.NET pipeline. Previous ASP.NET frameworks either had no DI or ...

21 August, 2008. It was a Thursday. Services are first-class citizens of the domain model. When concepts of the model would distort any Entity or Value Object, a Service is appropriate. From Evans’ ...

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 ...

8 June, 2008. It was a Sunday. I did a consulting gig for a few years at a very large government institution and I picked up some wisdom about how to best serve the customer (even sometimes in spite ...