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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?

Fat Controller CQRS Diet: Vertical Slices

This post is in my Fat Controller CQRS Diet series. It demonstrates how to thin your controllers by implementing commands and queries using the MediatR library.  Specifically in this post, I’ll look at organizing your code by vertical slices. I’m converting the MusicStore application that’s using ASP.NET Core MVC.   All the source code is available on GitHub. If you’re new to this series, here are earlier posts to get up to speed: Overview of Series Simple Query Simple Command Command Pipeline Notifications Organize by Feature Feature Slices or Vertical Slices are the terms I’ve heard the most for what I call… Read More »Fat Controller CQRS Diet: Vertical Slices

Fat Controller CQRS Diet: Notifications

This post is in my Fat Controller CQRS Diet series. It demonstrates how to thin your controllers by implementing commands and queries using the MediatR library. I’m converting the MusicStore application that’s using ASP.NET Core MVC.   All the source code is available on GitHub. If you’re new to this series, here are earlier posts to get up to speed: Overview of Series Simple Query Simple Command Command Pipeline Logging In the my previous Command Pipeline example, I leveraged StructureMap and the decorator pattern to setup a pipeline. My pipeline would invoke the actual command handler as well as any classes that… Read More »Fat Controller CQRS Diet: Notifications