I just wrote about how I like to present on unfamiliar topics. With this said, Domain-Driven Design (DDD) is no exception. This is yet another area I knew enough about to be dangerous but I certainly was no expert.  As it turns out, researching this topic wasn’t easy. I could be wrong, but it is as if DDD is a secret to which few are privy. If you search the Interwebs, you will likely find little information about DDD until you start rolling over rocks to find that one great write-up, a handful of podcasts and videos and the Readers’...

In this presentation, I provided a brief introduction into TDD and talked about the confusion and misconceptions around the discipline. I, of course, shared a bit about Dan North, the father of BDD and touched upon some crazy hypothesis dreamed up by Sapir and Whorf. I then gave a Behavior Driven Development overview (my impressions of the implementation and lifecycle) and then touched upon available tools, how to get started and I threw in a number of reference and reading materials which you will find below. As an added bonus, I demonstrated how easy it is to include/exclude hyphens...

The folks at the Open Web Application Security Project publish a list of the top 10 vulnerabilities. In a recent CodeBrew I provided a quick overview of them all and spent a good amount of time focusing on the most prevalent vulnerability, Cross Site Scripting (XSS).  I gave an overview of XSS, stepped through a quick demo (sorry vulnerable site), reviewed the three XSS variations and talked a bit about how to protect one’s site.  References and reading materials were also included in the presentation and, look at that, they are provided here too. ...

I did an in-house presentation on Lean Software Development (LSD) and Kanban Systems recently.  Beyond what I had previously learned from various podcasts, I knew little about either topic prior to compiling my slide deck.  In the process of building my presentation, I learned a ton.  I found the concepts weren’t very difficult to grok; however, I found little detailed information was available online.   Hence this post which is merely a list of valuable resources. Principles of Lean Thinking, Mary Poppendieck Lean Software Development, Mary Poppendieck...

After completing a ridiculous amount of research over the past couple of month, I presented on functional programming early last week.  Even though I’ve playing with F# quite a bit lately, I didn’t focus on any specific functional or multi-paradigm language.  Instead my presentation included an overview of functional programming in general.     Update 4/28/2009: I’ve posted my slide deck.  Check out Part 1 of the Functional Programming Series. I compiled a good number of references during my research. If you are interested in learning more about functional programming, I suggest you...

I did a presentation on Aspect-Oriented Programming at our company CodeBrew yesterday.  I was really happy with how well the talk came together and I was delighted by all of the positive feedback. My slide deck generated a lot of buzz.  As you can see, I borrowed heavily from the popular O'Reilly Head First book series.  It took me way too long to put the presentation together but it was definitely worth it.  And it was fun -- fun for me and the rest of the group.     I mentioned my...