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Welcome to our blog about all kind of topics that are related to software development. We blog about:

SOA, BPM, EDA, ECM and all the other buzz words. Beware some post might not be so common as you think. We are not scared to go against main stream thoughts.

Technologies like java, maven, springframework, OSGi and front end technologies and frameworks like jQuery, DWR, Flex.

Finally to make this happen we need tools and of course a Mac (well some of us do). So we blog about that as well.

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Introduction to DDD for the implementation oriented

dddnl_logo.pngRegular readers of gridshore know that Allard and I have attended a training on DDD (Domain Driven Design) and that we have started a user group for DDD in the Netherlands. Allard is using DDD for a project @ JTeam and he is starting to use it for a second project at JTeam as well. I am starting to use it on a few new initiatives and I am refactoring my old backoffice application to make it ready for a new version based on the DDD principles.

A lot of activity in the DDD area, and a lot of discussions with colleagues and other interested people about DDD. The biggest question is of course WHY?. There is not a very simple answer to this question. Ok, maybe one: Why not?. But that is to easy and not very convincing. A lot of arguments against DDD are coming from people talking about implementation problems. This blog post is focussing on those people. Not that others should not read it, but I am writing this post with those people in my mind.

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Upgrade woes and frustrations

This Monday my corporate laptop was upgraded. Last week I was in proud possession of an HP/Compaq NC6400, this week I have an IBM Lenovo R400 Thinkpad (an absolute Boer of a laptop, compared with the sleek and polished Compaq). It’s ugly and the control button is in the wrong place (which is inconvenient), but it has more RAM and a larger harddrive so I guess I’ll live with it.

Unfortunately, with the new laptop I was also downgraded: from Windows XP to Windows Vista and from Office 2003 to Office 2007. And no, those are not typos; I’ve been given new software with my new laptop and I hate every little bit of it. Vista is designed to kill your productivity and break your existing software. And even if you have software like Office (guaranteed to work due to the close ties between development teams), they make sure the new version is so bad that you can’t use that either.

Among my favorite bugs, failures and stupidies so far are the following:

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