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Derek Comartin

2016 Year in Review

I usually don’t think about a calendar year or do any type of reflection for a specific time period. I generally feel like I’m always in continuous improvement mode. But for whatever reason, I started looking back at 2016 to see what (if anything) I felt like I accomplished. I originally tweeted this on December 31st.  Only one of these was actually a “goal” at the beginning of the year. Blogged regularly in 2016, started a local #dotnet UG, spoke more. Building more on that in 2017. — Derek Comartin (@codeopinion) December 31, 2016 I didn’t have any intent of… Read More »2016 Year in Review

Fat Controller CQRS Diet: Trade-offs

In my Fat Controller CQRS Diet series, I’ve shown the mediator pattern and the MediatR library. After a recent discussion with Reid Evans, he made me realize I haven’t really described the trade-offs.  This post is going to focus on trade-offs and an alternative to using the mediator pattern. If you’re new to this series, here are earlier posts to get you up to speed: Overview of Series Simple Query Simple Command Command Pipeline Notifications Vertical Slices Coupling With the mediator pattern, communication between objects is encapsulated with a mediator object. Objects no longer communicate directly with each other, but instead… Read More »Fat Controller CQRS Diet: Trade-offs

Side Projects: Validate Quickly or Learning Experience?

I periodically enjoy working on side projects.  Not just messing around, but a full blown side project that has some set of features that I think would be useful. I never have any real intent of releasing them so I don’t ever put too much priority on them. Usually what I take away from them are knowledge of new tools/frameworks/libs/patterns etc.  Althoguh they aren’t always completely new to me, they may just be deepening my current understanding. For me these side projects go into three states: I get really into it and work on it non stop for a few… Read More »Side Projects: Validate Quickly or Learning Experience?