Tag Archives: ubiquitous language

Pitfalls of Domain Driven Design

Someone asked a very important question over at StackOverflow. The answer is also crucially important: “Probably the most important one: not grokking the central, fundamental principle of the Domain Model and its representation in Ubiquitous Language. With the plethora of technology options around, it’s very easy for your head to fill up with ORMs, MVC [...]

Eric Evans: “What I’ve learned about DDD since the book”

Eric Evans talks about the most essential parts of his book, having practiced it over the last 5 years. One of the topics that caught my attention was Exploration and Experimentation (3m 25s into the video).  Evans suggests that teams should be exploring & experimenting even after a useful domain model is created.  His quote: [...]

The reality of UI mock-ups and DDD

Casey Charlton is writing a sample application using DDD.  His first step was to create a UI mock-up to reflect a user story “What’s so bad about that?” I hear you cry.  Well, here’s the problem: UI prototyping is great for defining how a person is going to solve a business problem.  It’s not great [...]