SOA, Messages, DTOs and Mappers

OK, I’m currently in the middle of refactoring the current architecture. I’ve been reading about Messages, DTOs (Data Transport Objects) and SOA (Service Oriented Architecture). What I’ve been reading makes sense but I’m finding it hard to locate some really good examples of how it should be done. So I’m going to outline my current [...]

Cards are the new Issues

I’m going to start taking this blog in a slightly different direction from now on. Up to now I’ve been giving a step-by-step account of development of the PixelBugs project. Since my last post, I’ve made quite a few changes and to describe them all in detail here would take up too much of my [...]

Services, Refactoring & Castle Trunk

Hello again and welcome to the latest edition of Developing PixelBugs. This time around we’re not adding any new features, but instead we’ll be adding a service layer and some refactoring. During this process I found a reason to upgrade to the Castle trunk from RC3, but more on that later.
Adding a service layer
So far [...]