welcome!

Following the success and interest in previous years, the 4th annual DDD eXchange 2011 is taking place today!

People have started arriving and, with a great line up of talks, this year's DDD eXchange promises to be a great day of learning and innovation for the UK's architect and developer community.

SkillsCast Video's

If you are not here this year, to join Eric Evans, Udi Dahan, Greg Young and others for a day packed with talks and discussions, you'll be able to watch the SkillsCast video's, which we'll be publishing throughout the day, on these very same pages

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If you have questions, thoughts and opinions you like to share - tweet #dddx .... Some tweeted opinions or questions will also be featured at the Parkbench panel discussion later today.

You may also like to secure your ticket for next year's DDD eXchange, which has been scheduled for June 8th 2012...

Friday 10th June 2011

Track 1

9:30 - 10:00 WELCOME TO DDD EXCHANGE

Eric Evans: Eric Evans welcomed everyone at the DDD eXchange 2011 and provided an overview of the programme. View the podcast here...

10.00 - 11.00 DOMAIN MODELS AND COMPOSITE APPLICATIONS

Udi Dahan: In this talk, recorded at the DDD eXchange 2011, Udi Dahan explains the use of Bounded Contexts to turn previously monolithic systems into composite applications, now with multiple lean and mean domain models - a new perspective on DDD awaits. View the podcast here...

11.15 - 12.15 REST AND DDD

Jim Webber: Dr Jim Webber -- co-author of REST in Practice -- delivers his talk on REST and Domain Driven Design View the podcast here...

12.30 - 13.30 DDD IN A FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE

Patrik Fredriksson: This presentation very briefly introduces functional programming and contrasts it to other common styles of programming. We will then take a closer look at the features available to us in a modern functional programming language and see if, and how, these can support a modelling paradigm as required to do DDD. View the podcast here...

14:30-15:20 ASSERT.THAT(WE.UNDERSTAND)

Greg Young: Testing has finally be recognized as an important aspect of our profession. This session will look at testing in DDD based systems, after the introduction of domain events, and finally when using event sourcing. View the podcast here...

15:30 - 16:20 REST & APIS IN THE GUARDIAN'S DDD PROCESSES

Matthew Wall: The Guardian have been using domain driven design for 5 years, Matt talks about how their approach to DDD has evolved. In particular this session focuses on lessons learned from applying DDD in the real world, and how moving towards a development model focussed on REST & APIs has caused the Guardian's DDD processes to evolve. View the podcast here...

16:30 - 17:00 PARK BENCH DISCUSSION

Zi Makki: This Park Bench discussion will be chaired by Zi Makki. View the podcast here...

17:10 - 18:00 DDD STRATEGIES FOR MOVING AWAY FROM LEGACY SYSTEMS

Eric Evans: Often a team sets out to design a new piece of software using a domain model. At first they are focused on strategically valuable new features and modeling sessions clarify the new approach the business wants to take. View the podcast here...