17 February, 2012. It was a Friday. If you write any code in JavaScript then you’ve probably used closures, but do you actually understand what they are and how they work? Taking the time to ...

1 June, 2016. It was a Wednesday. In many of my applications, the UI and API gravitate towards task-oriented UIs. Instead of “editing an invoice”, I “approve an invoice”, with specialized models, ...

28 May, 2026. It was a Thursday. Part 2 of 5 in the Local LLM Bench series. The PowerShell script from part one did its job. It surfaced the think-mode problem, sorted out which models could call ...

12 August, 2008. It was a Tuesday. A question came up on the ALT.NET message board asking whether Value Objects should be used across service boundaries. Of course, the conversation took several ...

19 July, 2016. It was a Tuesday. To help those building applications using the new Microsoft DI libraries (used in Orleans, ASP.NET Core, etc.), I pushed out a helper package to register all of your ...

6 June, 2015. It was a Saturday. This is my 100th post – I have to open a good bottle of wine tonight! In my last post I was presenting my thoughts about event sourcing (ES) as an architectural ...

Way too many times I encounter applications that claim to have a domain (model) and that domain driven design has been used to develop it, but in reality what I find is a collection of entities or ...

22 April, 2014. It was a Tuesday. I’ve been a supporter and user of NHibernate for nearly 10 years. While not part of the original NHibernate Mafia, I’ve long enjoyed NHibernate’s ability to rich, ...

18 June, 2013. It was a Tuesday. One of the keys to having maintainable tests are to make sure that tests are isolated and reproducible. For unit tests, this is easy as long as we stay away from ...

In this post I am going to show step by step how to install a local version of Windows Server 2016 TP5 in Hyper-V and how to configure it to be a container host. It is still not straight forward to ...

21 September, 2016. It was a Wednesday. This post talks about a little welcome time-saver and how we achieved it by using Docker. In our company we work a lot with AWS and since we automate everything ...

Many systems implement CRUD (create, read, update, and delete) using a repository pattern. An entity is loaded using a Get method, some business layer logic makes changes to the entity, and ultimately ...