Colin Jack's Blog

There have been some interesting and entirely valid discussions on Twitter about the validity of DDD and about deciding when its useful and when its too complex (including good comments from Casey Charlton and Jimmy Bogard). I full agree with Casey and...

Just to let you know that I'll now also be posting over at lostechies. Obviously I'll continue to post everything here though so you only need to do anything if your already subscribed to the lostechies feed and getting my blog entries twice is annoying...

Thought I'd blog about some of the things I'd like to see in an ORM in the future, particularly to support DDD cleanly:
No enforced associations - I never want to create an association in the model just to support persistence, regardless of where keys are stored. So if I want to use uni-directional associations then I should be able to do that without having to go for...

Files/Folders
One thing that can be troublesome when moving from TDD to BDD is how to organize your files and folders, so far I've tried two approaches:
One class in each file - So if you have When_associating_an_order_with_a_customer and When_associating_an_order_with_a_preferred_customer then they'd be in seperate files even though they are very closely related. If they share a base class, or a class...