Architect’s Introspection
Do I do this because I want to or do I do this because I need to?
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Rows and Columns + Elements and Attributes is all you need
Simple question: Please show me a case where inheritance and/or full data encapsulation makes sense for business/domain objects on the implementation level.
I'll steal the low-hanging fruit: Address. Address is a great candidate when you look at an OOA model as you could model yourself to death having BaseAddress(BA) and BA<-StreetAddress(SA) and BA<-PostalAddress(PA) and SA<-US_StreetAddress and SA<-DE_StreetAddress and SA<-UK_StreetAddress and so forth.
When it comes to implementation, you'll end up refactoring the class into on thing: Address. There's probably...
Pipelines, Pipelines, Pipelines, and Frameworks. A spontaneous rant.
In my comment view for the last post (comment #1), Piyush Pant writes about the confusion around different pipeline models and frameworks that are popping up all over the place and mentions Proseware, so I need to clarify some things:
I'll address the "too many frameworks" concern first: Proseware's explicit design goal and my job was to use the technologies ASP.NET Web Services, WSE 2.0, IIS, MSMQ, and Enterprise Services as pure...
Benjamin’s summary of my “Building Proseware” session at TechEd
Benjamin Mitchell wrote a better summary of my "Building Proseware Inc." session at TechEd Amsterdam than I ever could.
Because ... whenever the lights go on and the mike is open, I somehow automatically switch into an adrenalin-powered auto-pilot mode that luckily works really well and since my sessions take up so much energy and "focus on the moment", I often just don't remember all the things I said once the session is over and I am cooled down....
Blogging about a great man …. and a challenge
I keep blogging about great people who do amazing things. Here’s someone else who did an amazing thing: me ;-) Meet the grand master and anchor of our branch of the Vasters clan: Richard Vasters.
My dad is a Bezirksschornsteinfegermeister (“district master craftsman chimney sweep”, very different job description from what it is in the U.S.) and a computer veteran without wanting to be....