Written by Ross Tuck
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on Aug. 26, 2018
One of the hardest things to teach growing devs is when not to use their newfound skills. After putting huge effort into learning with a mentor, having that same mentor pick up a feature and say “No, just crap this one out, it’s not important” seems inconsistent and bewildering. To help explain, I…
Written by Ross Tuck
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on Jan. 22, 2018
The most common question I get about my command bus library is: “can commands really return nothing?” The second most common question is “Why do you let commands return something, don’t you know that’s Wrong(tm)?” It’s easy to get hung up on form, not function. That’s a shame because command buses…
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on Aug. 10, 2017
tl;dr When creating value objects representing time, I recommend choosing how finegrained the time should be with your domain experts and round it off to that precision in the value object. When modeling important numbers, it’s considered good form to specify the precision. Whether it’s money, size…
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on Oct. 27, 2015
Over the last couple years, I’ve started putting my Exception messages inside static methods on custom exception classes. This is hardly a new trick, Doctrine’s been doing it for the better part of a decade. Still, many folks are surprised by it, so this article explains the how and why. How does…
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on May. 18, 2015
Recently, a few folks asked about a trait in a new project I wrote. Right around the same time, Rafael Dohms showed me his new talk about complex cognitive processes we don’t notice. Because my brain is a big mushy sack, the two blended together. The result was this post, which tries to capture how…
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on Oct. 12, 2014
I started this month by speaking or hosting at 4 events in 2 countries over 5 days (DrupalCon Amsterdam, DomCode, ZgPHP, WebCamp). While hectic, it was a great way to see a cross section of the community back-to-back. So, I’d like to talk about the events in turn but also some meta-topics about con…