January 08, 2015 / by David Dawson / In Our Team

Development by Slogan with DRY: Part 2, The Tower of Coupling

Part 1

Don't Repeat Anything == The Tower of Coupling

Copy and Paste, it’s bad. We have this drilled into us as received knowledge. We must build abstractions to avoid copying code, or concepts that seem similar, at all costs. We must do this, or we are bad developers and we’ve built a WET (Write Everything Twice .. etc) system, which isn’t DRY, so it’s bad.

January 01, 2015 / by David Dawson / In Our Team

Development by Slogan with DRY: Part 1, Really DRY

I recently had a thought provoking exchange on Twitter with Luke Daley who is a Gradle developer, creator of the Ratpack web framework and all around awesome fellow.

April 21, 2013 / by David Dawson / In Our Team

Simplicity in Grails Design – All Hail the Command Object

This is a follow on to Simplicity in Web Architecture - Beware the Stateless Service

April 18, 2013 / by David Dawson / In Our Team

The Future of Grails

This is a response to a blog post by Peter Ledbrook on his blog