March 28, 2009 - ElegantCode

28 Mar

2009

Experimenting With Fluent Interfaces in the Domain

By: Jan Van Ryswyck Category:General PostTag: New Post:10 Comments

As you might have guessed from my previous two blog posts, I’ve been experimenting with fluent interfaces lately. I’ve been thinking about passing an expression builder to an aggregate root so that the root entity can use the builder to create a particular child entity. This begs for some code. public class Category : DomainEntity […]

28 Mar

2009

Book Review: The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich

By: Jan Van Ryswyck Category:UncategorizedTag: Books:2 Comments

Yesterday, I finished listening to the 4-Hour Workweek and I really liked it. That’s right, I said ‘listening’ because I have the audio version of the book. While the title does make a bold statement, as a reader (or listener) you have to look through the facade of making lots of money while spending all […]

28 Mar

2009

Boise Code Camp & Tech Fest Day 1

By: Jason Grundy Category:General PostTag: New Post:1 Comment

I?m sitting here full of pizza listening to a presentation about Live Mesh that?s being given by fellow Elegant Coder Sean Timm who is the author of what is perhaps my favorite EC post (the paragraph entitled ?Sean Timm?s rules of proper switch statement etiquette? is classic). One of the great things about this type […]

28 Mar

2009

About Working With a Shared Database

By: Jan Van Ryswyck Category:General PostTag: New Post:

I just wanted to share this quote that I’ve read while I was skimming through Enterprise Integration Patterns. This paragraph clearly phrases my thoughts about a Shared Database, also because I’ve been confronted with its downsides for quite some time now. One of the biggest difficulties with Shared Database is coming up with a suitable […]