Got my copy of Applying DDD (w/C#) today

DHL said it arrived yesterday, but I never saw it. Turns out DHL used USPS and it was in the mailbox.

Anyway, the book is Applying Domain-Driven Design and Patterns: With Examples in C# and .NET. I just finished the first chapter and although a lot of it was familiar to me, I liked the author’s writing style and found it more engaging than some of the more abstract books on the patterns, architecture, and designI have Domain-Driven Design, Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture, and Design Patterns. I really like the books and I have learned a ton from them, it’s just that they are a little dense and abstract. I don’t know that I feel comfortable giving them to someone new to the concepts.. He mentioned several tools that I use daily like NUnit and CruiseControl.net.

I’m hoping this book will be both a good introductory book that I can give to people and that it will give me with some practical examples of how to actually work with DDD in .net. I really want to read through it as quick as I can so that can try to get some other people at work interested.

We have been using some things like unit tests and continuous integration and I think it has greatly improved our process and the quality of our code. Hopefully concepts like domain models and the object-relational impedance mismatch can spur further improvements.