Programmer Beekiping

Programmers are like bees :) "You can't exactly communicate with them, but you can get them to swarm in one place and when they're not looking, you can carry off the honey". This quote is from a great article by Orson Scott Card: How Software Companies Die. A must read for all who wants to know how to scarry away good programmers and kill a software business.

Scritchy - CQRS without the plumbing?

There is a new lightwight CQRS framework/library that claims to allow quick building of CQRS applications for beginners or intermediate developers: Scritchy. It's a .NET project. The source code can be found at https://github.com/ToJans/Scritchy. There is also an example of a stocklist app that uses Scritchy: http://scritchyexample.apphb.com/. On that page there is also a video that shows how to build a CQRS application within few minutes using Scritchy. Since there is a widespread opinion that CQRS is hard to understand and an overkill for most applications let's hope that this micro framework can help to encourage developers to delve into CQRS.