Articles tagged ‘DDD’
Two kinds of abbreviations
Initialisms and acronyms for jargon and laziness • 2022-11-22
Mixing kinds of text
Where embedding one kind of text in another goes bad • 2022-09-20
Modelling text as data and code
Getting your formats mixed up • 2022-09-13
Modelling text as symbols
Obscure problems when displaying symbols • 2022-09-06
Modelling text as writing
Software design problems with the simplest of four kinds of text • 2022-08-30
Brute-force modelling
When avoiding over-modelling feels like cheating • 2022-06-28
The importance of programming jokes
Domain-specific jokes’ purpose • 2022-06-21
Modelling multitudes
Measuring, counting and naming different kinds of quantities • 2022-06-07
Use a money data type
Why your software should handle money amounts separately from other numbers • 2022-04-12
Modelling numeric values
More than just size and precision • 2022-03-29
Use a currency-specific number of decimals
Why a money amount isn’t just a number • 2022-03-08
Populate country lists carefully
How to source a list of countries to use in software • 2022-02-01
Localise names with the CLDR
Using the Unicode Common Locale Data Repository’s standard translations • 2022-01-25
Internationalise data
Better software through commoditised domain modelling • 2022-01-18
Default to the browser’s preferred language
Don’t set the web page language based on location • 2022-01-11
Jargon-centric naming
Restricting names to controlled vocabularies • 2021-11-30
Domain primers
How software developers and product people can bootstrap subject-matter knowledge • 2021-11-09
Pluralise text correctly
User-interface content design details matter too • 2021-10-12
Domain-driven development
Why no-code tools enable ultimate domain-driven design • 2021-06-29
Allow varied national telephone number formats
Why telephone numbers don’t add up • 2021-02-23
Respect people’s full names
Don’t call someone’s name ‘invalid’ • 2021-02-16
Build unisex software
Don’t ask people to tell you their gender • 2021-01-13
Validate email addresses to level 4
First person to say ‘regex’ loses • 2020-12-01
Allow all printable characters
First person to say ‘special characters’ loses • 2020-11-17
Refactor Boolean values to enumerations
From ‘97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know’ • 2020-10-07
Numbers that aren’t numbers
‘Numbers’ that you can’t represent numerically • 2020-09-29
Get better at naming things
From ‘97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know’ • 2020-09-08