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• March 10, 2016

  Putting myself out there

  Like a lot of adventures, it all started with “why not?”, without putting too much thought into it. Confoo being a sizable conference, I didn’t expect to get picked. But I sent two proposals anyway, on topics that I am very passionate about. One w...

• June 13, 2015

  Value Objects

  Value objects are an important building block of domain-driven design. They are small objects that encapsulate value, validation and behaviour. You can use them to group related values together and provide functionality related to what they repres...

• June 01, 2015

  Choosing your project's dependencies

  If you work on any non-trivial project, chances are you’ll install one or many external dependencies at some point. It’s a good decision to direct your limited resources at business-specific problems and use generic packages for boilerplate functi...

• May 24, 2015

  Design Pattern: Specification

  The specification pattern is a software design pattern used to codify business rules that state something about an object. These simple predicates determine if an object’s state satisfies a certain business criteria. They can then be combined to f...

• November 23, 2013

  Domain objects and code organization

  A few days – or was it weeks – ago, I answered hastily to a question on the Symfony2 Google Group. The question is simple but the answer is not : How do your organise your code in a Symfony project?I’ve had some time to think about it and wanted t...