Jef Claes

On software and life

29 Sep 2013

CZ The Trilogy

Over the weekend, we visited the Czech Republic for the third time ([one](http://www.jefclaes.be/2010/04/trip-report-cze...
22 Sep 2013

Actor Model in COBOL

In an Actor system, each Actor acts as a self-contained and autonomous component. An Actor can only communicate with oth...
15 Sep 2013

Slides from my talk on the Ubiquitous Language

I just returned from our yearly [Euricom](http://euri.com/) retreat. This year, all forty of us got to spend four days i...
06 Sep 2013

The first DDDBE Modellathon

On our way back from DDD Exchange, heavily influenced by yet another immersive DDD experience, we searched for ways to k...
25 Aug 2013

Inheritance is like Jenga

These last few days, I have been working on a piece of our codebase that accidentally got very inheritance heavy. W...
18 Aug 2013

But I already wrote it

A few weeks ago, we set out to implement a feature that enabled back office users to set a new rate ahead of time. With ...
15 Aug 2013

Eventual consistent domain events with RavenDB and IronMQ

Working on side projects, I often find myself using [RavenDB](http://ravendb.net/) for storage and [IronMQ](http://www.i...
04 Aug 2013

When your commands spell CUD

A good while ago, I blogged on commands (and queries). After exploring various flavors, I eventually settled on this one...
16 Jul 2013

The last cowboy

After seventeen days, 2000 miles (3220km), seven states, eight national parks and fifteen motels, our [second](http://ww...
15 Jul 2013

The road goes on forever

We didn’t get to see a lot of Salt Lake City. Before heading to Idaho Falls, we hung around at the mall, feasted on Sush...