BDD / DDD Discussion
with concrete examples
I was invited by Adam Wathan to discuss BDD / DDD on his podcast Full Stack Radio. I think that he did a tremendous job producing the show and I enjoyed discussing how I perceive both BDD and DDD as well as having the opportunity to share concrete examples of optimizing for business value.
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The Repository Pattern
Basics and clarification
"Repository commonly refers to a storage location, often for safety or preservation." - Wikipedia
This is how Wikipedia describes a repository. It just so happens that unlike some other jargon that we deal with, this fits perfectly. A repository represents the concept of a storage collection for a specific type of entity.
Repository . . .
Command Bus
An overview of implementation, advantages, and challenges.
There has been a lot of talk about the concept of the command bus lately and I discovered that Laravel 5 is likely to ship with a command bus implementation. So, I want to take a moment and discuss this topic as I've been using it well over a year now in many projects both green and brown.
At the bottom of this post there are a number of . . .
Domain-Driven Design
How to get started
Ward Cunningham said of the book Domain-Driven Design, "If you don't think you are getting value from your investment in object-oriented programming, this book will tell you what you've forgotten to do."
My experiences directly relate to this observation. It is DDD that is giving me insight into improving my object-oriented . . .