Ziobrando's Lair

There's been an interesting discussion about Aggregates on the Italian DDD mailing lists. When things become complex, a simple example m...

One of the premises of Strategic Domain Driven Design is that in every non-trivial application there will be multiple models at play. This m...

This post might sound quite stupid, but I guess this is nothing new… There's been a long debate going on between two parties: those who ...

When designing an application architecture, one of the things to consider is how to deal with lock-in on third party components. The problem...

In my previous post, I focused on some of the scope differences between software project assignment in the university, and real world projec...

Despite all the criticism surrounding it at JAOO , I am still working with UML sometimes (not that often, I am currently stuck between Excel...

After re-reading my last post , I felt quite disappointed: the main point could have been squeezed up in the more you add stuff to a system,...

While I was discussing with a friend, preparing a speech about complex system management, I realized that there is a close analogy between f...

Java web programming suffered bad development performances in the last years, mainly related to the complexity of the presentation layer. As...

When performing analysis for a new system, many people find useful to shrink several use cases in a single one, and tagging it with the CRUD...

I was drowning into the abyss of the Italian bureaucracy in the last few days, going from an office to another one to fetch the papers neede...