Last night, I had a Skype/SharedView session with a buddy in Arkansas trying to apply DDD and “best practices” to an application he was building.  He wanted to use all the ALT.NET tools he’s heard so much about, such as NHibernate, StructureMap and so on.  The problem came when he went to go look at the sample applications for “Floogle Architecture”, and was basically stopped dead in his tracks.  His question to me was, “do I really have to do all this?  It seems like a little overkill”.  He had looked at several reference applications for every different Floogle Architecture out there, and all confused more than enlightened. Back when I was getting started trying to apply design principles to my work, I also yearned for that golden reference application that would just tell me what I needed to do, or at least show me what I shouldn’t do.  I remember looking at JP Boodhoo’s application he built after a Nuthin But Dot Net course, and I had the same thoughts.  “Do I really have to do all this?  It seems like a little overkill.”  What my buddy and I were missing was context . Earlier that day, I had a Q&A session with another buddy in town that’s been developing Rails apps to production Read More...

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Posted Tue, Jan 26 2010 12:25 PM by DDD Feeds