J. Ambrose Little

Object Thinking Domain Model Example

Previously, I mentioned I was working on an example of using Visual Studio to create a concrete domain model using object thinking, and here it is. The domain I ended up modeling was that of a shared event calendar, including event registration and agenda Read More...

The Timeless Way is Agile

I finally got around to finishing The Timeless Way of Building , by Christopher Alexander (most well known in software for being the source of the patterns movement).  The last part of the book is called "The Way" to build things.  Read More...

Report from SD Best Practices

[Those who follow my personal blog can ignore this.] Last week I had the pleasure of attending the SD Best Practices conference in Boston. I learned a lot and met some good folks. While I was there, I published a series of daily summaries/reports about Read More...

What is a Domain Model?

When searching recently so as to provide further reading for "domain model" in a recent post , I was quite surprised to find that there seemed to be no good definition readily available (at least not by Googling "domain model").  Read More...

Web Services Best Practices

As I sit here on my deck, enjoying the cool autumn breeze 1 , I thought, what better thing to write about than Web services ! Well, no, actually I am just recalling some stuff that's happened lately. On the MSDN Architecture forums and in some coding Read More...