In all honesty, I’m still a beginner when it comes to developement. I only just have over 2 years experience. After attending an SaDev meeting recently and hearing about NHibernate for the first time I decided to check it out. Someone then suggested that I look into ActiveRecord instead. ActiveRecord is an O/R mapper that encapsulates the NHibernate framework and it seems much easier to work with. (More coming on this topic shortly)

While reading up on these things I started spotting certain things. I started reading up on different design models.

1) Database Driven Design
2) Domain Driven Design
3) CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) Design
4) Extreme Programming
5) Agile Programming
6) Waterfall Model
7) Feature Driven Developement

Now to most of you with degrees, and honurs and whatever else, this is probably some standard ideas and methodologies but to me they are things I’ve never really looked into. I’ve now started spending more and more time reading on methodologies and design practices than actual developement articles! I’m starting to feel that maybe I should start looking into architecture even more. I think part of this also started last week when I received my best practice books from BB&D.

Sadly though, I registered on http://www.saarchitect.net/ and the forums there seem quite dead. I’m going to try contact some guys from the forums for help and more information on certain topics.

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