Cyrille Martraire

Consider a domain, for example an online bookshop project that we call BuyCheapBooks. The Ubiquitous Language for this domain would talk about Book, Category, Popularity, ShoppingCart etc.
Business Domains
From scratch, coding this domain can be quite fast, and we can play with the fully unit-tested domain layer quickly. However if we want to ship, we will [...]

Small details matter because you deal with them often. Any enhancement you make thus yields a benefit often, hence a bigger overall benefit. In other words: invest small care, get big return. This is an irresistible proposal!
Examples of small design-level details that I care about because I have experienced great payback from them:

Using Value Objects [...]

Deciding where and how to place the annotations is not innocent. The last thing we want is to create extra maintenance effort because of the annotations. In other words, we want annotations that are stable, or that change for the same reasons and at the same time than the elements they annotate. This article suggests [...]

The concept of degrees of freedom looks so relevant to software development that I am wondering why it is not considered more often. Fortunately Michael L. Perry dedicates a full section of his blog to that concept. In this post I will quote a lot, please consider that as a sign of enthusiasm.
A common concept [...]

Many concepts look obvious because they are used often, not because they are really simple.
Small quantities that we encounter all the time in most projects, such as date, time, price, quantity of items, a min and a max… hardly are a subject of interest from developers “as it is obvious that we can represent them [...]