Category Archives: Techniques

Thinking About Verbs

Posted on February 15, 2012 by

In my last post, I said you should model verbs, not nouns. I probably exaggerated a bit (I tend to do that) – you shouldn’t completely forget about the nouns. Your verbs wouldn’t have much to do without them. Instead, … Continue reading →

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Model the Verbs, Not the Nouns

Posted on February 14, 2012 by

For most of my career, the “best practice” has been to build applications from the data up. You model the database and then everything will be happy. Its just the way you do it. There is no other way. So … Continue reading →

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Don’t take any wooden nickels, part 3

Posted on August 19, 2011 by

So don’t trust consultants and don’t trust Microsoft (and by Microsoft, I really meant any vendor’s guidance). And it’s more a case of trust, but verify. But I digress… Open source software can be a great solution to a problem … Continue reading →

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Don’t take any wooden nickels, part 2

Posted on August 18, 2011 by

Microsoft Patterns and Practices is an extreme case of my theory about consultants. These guys appear to have never shipped anything that will be used by real users. That wasn’t always true. Early versions of the Data Access Block were … Continue reading →

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Don’t take any wooden nickels, part 1

Posted on August 17, 2011 by

Shipping software is hard. Even if you are just packaging it up lightly so you can put it on a couple machines in Accounting down the hall, once it leaves your protected little world, anything can happen. And usually does. … Continue reading →

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