Author Archives: Jimmy Bogard

About Jimmy Bogard

I'm a technical architect with Headspring in Austin, TX. I focus on DDD, distributed systems, and any other acronym-centric design/architecture/methodology. I created AutoMapper and am a co-author of the ASP.NET MVC in Action books.

Building a non-native mobile HTML5 App

Posted on October 3, 2012 by Jimmy Bogard

My co-worker Tim is writing about a recent project where he headed up a team building a mobile application as an HTML5 application. It’s a fascinating problem, especially with news of Facebook ditching their HTML5 app in favor of a … Continue reading →

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Limiting your abstractions

Posted on September 20, 2012 by Jimmy Bogard

It’s been almost 3 years since I first wrote about moving away from the Repository abstraction. Since then, I’ve gone more or less full-bore without any concept of a repository in the systems I’ve built. I haven’t removed existing repositories, … Continue reading →

Posted in Architecture | 33 Comments

AutoMapper for Java

Posted on September 17, 2012 by Jimmy Bogard

Every once in a while, I get a request asking if there’s anything like AutoMapper for the Java platform. For a long time, that answer was “no”. Not anymore! Jonathan Halterman got in touch with me almost 2 years ago … Continue reading →

Posted in AutoMapper | 4 Comments

Why I’m done with Scrum

Posted on September 12, 2012 by Jimmy Bogard

My first foray into Agile was with a product team back in 2004-2005. It was my first “real” job out of college, and my first experience with a death march. During the death march, I was struck on how bad … Continue reading →

Posted in Agile | 131 Comments

Evolutionary Project Structure

Posted on August 30, 2012 by Jimmy Bogard

I used to care quite a bit about project structure in applications. Trying to enforce logical layering through physical projects, I would start off a project by defaulting to building an app with at least two projects, if not more. … Continue reading →

Posted in Architecture, Domain-Driven Design | 72 Comments

CQRS and user experience

Posted on August 23, 2012 by Jimmy Bogard

CQRS as a concept is relatively easy to grasp, as it’s really just two objects where there was once one (plus all the stuff underneath the covers to make that happen). Where I see most teams struggle to apply these … Continue reading →

Posted in CQRS | 28 Comments

ThatConference presentation content posted – Functional Testing in MVC

Posted on August 22, 2012 by Jimmy Bogard

Last week I was lucky enough to speak at ThatConference – now the other awesome developer conference hosted at a Kalahari Resort. The week was a blast and I highly recommend penciling in next year’s dates to go. I talked … Continue reading →

Posted in ASP.NET MVC | 4 Comments

Busting some CQRS myths

Posted on August 22, 2012 by Jimmy Bogard

CQRS, while a relatively simple concept, still brings a lot of assumptions about what CQRS is and should be. So what is CQRS? Simply put, CQRS is two objects where there was once one. We’re splitting code infrastructure down to … Continue reading →

Posted in CQRS, Domain-Driven Design | 20 Comments

Central Texas GiveCamp needs volunteers

Posted on August 21, 2012 by Jimmy Bogard

Next month, a few of us at Headspring are putting on the Central Texas GiveCamp. For the uninitiated, a GiveCamp is a weekend-long event where us as developers/coders/designers get together to put our skills to good use for non-profit organizations. … Continue reading →

Posted in Misc | 5 Comments

Reliable job scheduling with NServiceBus and Quartz.NET

Posted on August 13, 2012 by Jimmy Bogard

One of the more interesting features of NServiceBus is the ability to schedule messages and send messages in the future. The default implementation works well for simple cases, where you have messages that need to be sent every X seconds. … Continue reading →

Posted in NServiceBus | 9 Comments