what do I know

Let me start out by saying, I had little to no expectations about this talk whatsoever. In fact, I bought Internet at the conference for one day to specifically, at this talk, update my blog. Well I was very happy that my expectations were not correct. Wow, Hal Helms hit the nail on the head in terms of explaining object oriented concepts, UML, and dynamite examples. He was able to associate terminology with concepts I had yet to formalize in my head. His slides referred to a few OO books which I may buy just because of how his presentation went. Hal basically focussed on how to design the domain model associated with an application. He addressed what I’ve been calling light-weight designs, but he calls service-level designs, and how common it is that people will place their application business rules into service-level APIs, even mistake them for service-level business rules.

Overall, Hal’s talk was a great and I am happy I went and kinda disappointed I missed his Large Scale Architectures talk. Supposedly, his talks should be up on the cf.objective() site soon, so I’ll try to link to them soon.

• cf.objective() 2007 : ColdBox Re-design Discussions
• Frameworks Conference 2007 : Intro to Object Factories
• Frameworks Conference 2007 : Designing Framework-Agnostic Models with CFCs
• Frameworks Conference 2007 : Design Pattern Safari
• cf.objective() 2007 : OO Architecture Back to Front