6 June, 2026. It was a Saturday. Part 5 of 5 in the Local LLM Bench series. The project started with ten models and two prompts. It ended with 23 models, a 13-point scoring harness, 3 Python agentic ...

13 August, 2011. It was a Saturday. One of the biggest roadblocks with getting automated browser tests (we use WatiN) running in a Windows Continuous Integration environment is figuring out how to let ...

22 August, 2012. It was a Wednesday. 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 ...

13 June, 2016. It was a Monday. Round about 7 years ago, I was part of a very large project which rooted its design and architecture around domain-driven design concepts. I’ve blogged a lot about that ...

5 May, 2015. It was a Tuesday. CQRS is a simple pattern – two objects for command/queries where once there was one. These days just about every system I build utilizes CQRS, as it’s a natural ...

13 October, 2016. It was a Thursday. A while ago, I blogged about using MediatR to build a processing pipeline for requests in the form of commands and queries in your application. MediatR is a ...

20 July, 2016. It was a Wednesday. Part of the release of ASP.NET Core is a new DI framework that’s completely integrated with the ASP.NET pipeline. Previous ASP.NET frameworks either had no DI or ...

6 April, 2011. It was a Wednesday. A common point of confusion when getting started with Git on Windows is line endings, with Windows still using CR+LF while every other modern OS uses LF only. Git ...

Recently, I talked some about the idea of an intentionally anemic domain model, under the name of “Persistence Model”. While a Persistence Model is great for a large percentage of projects, you may ...

29 April, 2016. It was a Friday. A common question I get asked, especially around a vertical slice architecture, is where does validation happen? If you’re doing DDD, you might want to put validation ...

12 August, 2008. It was a Tuesday. A question came up on the ALT.NET message board asking whether Value Objects should be used across service boundaries. Of course, the conversation took several ...

22 March, 2012. It was a Thursday. I’ve received numerous questions about managing layouts and nested views in Backbone over the last few months. Until recently, though, I never had a great answer.