Dave Laribee

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• Super Models, Part 2: Avoid Mutators

  A quick disclaimer: we're entering religious territory here. I feel strongly about this issue, but it's certainly my opinion. If you want to get the full sense of how passionate people are about this issue, check out this article at JavaWorld... Posted Jul 08 2008, 10:11 PM by Dave Laribee with | with 44 comment(s) Filed under: code, DDD, oo, opinion

• Test Your NHibernate Mappings!

  Disclaimer! Ayende rightly points out that if you are testing your queries you get this mapping test for free. If you aren't, well put this in place as a stop gap measure (to test mappings) and if you have queries, which you probably do, get to testin'... Posted Jun 17 2008, 09:55 PM by Dave Laribee with | with 21 comment(s) Filed under: C#, code, NHibernate, testing

• Hook Methods

  I've written about the template method pattern before. For my money it's still a very useful pattern for building super lightweight frameworks and enabling the open-closed principle which states: Software entities (classes, modules, functions... Posted Jun 16 2008, 01:06 PM by Dave Laribee with | with 18 comment(s) Filed under: .net, C#, code, design, patterns

• Super Models, Part 1: Sexy Specifications

  In Domain-Driven Design we turn to the specification pattern when we want to check whether an object matches some criteria. I think specification is the oft-forgotten bastard child pattern of the domain model pattern language. I know I frequently turn... Posted Jun 15 2008, 02:48 PM by Dave Laribee with | with 21 comment(s) Filed under: .net, C#, code, DDD, design, Domain Model, DSLs, patterns, specification