I struggled with how to think about complexity through much of my career, especially during the ten years I spent leading Office development. Modeling complexity impacted how we planned major releases, our technical strategy as we moved to new platforms,…

Editorial Note: I originally wrote this post for the NDepend blog.  You can check out the original here, at their site.  While you’re there, check out all of the new tech debt-related features in the newest version of NDepend. I’ve heard people say (paraphrased)…

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Or why DDD is my silver bullet. Yep, I said the word “Silver Bullet”. All the trolls are now out of their cave ready to hurt me with their clubs. But before hitting me, have a cup of co…

Let’s do a little experiment: try to explain the gist of Domain-Driven Design to someone who has no clue about it. This, especially doing it succinctly, is not easy. Heck, I struggle with it myself. …

Almost 11 years after we created CodePlex, it’s time to say goodbye.  We launched CodePlex in 2006 because we, like others in the industry, saw a need for a great place to share software.  Over the years, we’ve seen a lot of amazing options come and go but…

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Based on several decades of experience, we have developed an agile framework for distributed teams. We defined 8 bubbles: Culture, Organization, Product, Team, Architecture, Engineering, Communication and Tools. Each bubble contains questions, virtues and…

A controversial new proposal for .NET suggests the introduction of a limited form of multiple inheritance via abstract interfaces. This feature was inspired by Java’s default methods.

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IntroductionA lot is happening and it’s difficult to keep track of everything. Based on my work and on what I see over the Internet, I decided to write a post about the technologies – tools, …