I am a software developer from Wellington, New Zealand. In February 2010 I moved to London, and am currently working for Digiterre building distributed front-office trading systems.

This blog is all about putting software design techniques to practice — choosing the best ways to solve a problem, and making it work in the real world. In particular, I am a big advocate of:

• Domain driven design (DDD)
• Test-driven development (TDD)
• Command-Query Responsibility Separation (CQRS)
• SOLID principles
• Presentation patterns

… and pretty much anything else that makes life easier.

Most of my articles are written from a Microsoft .NET perspective, although I occasionally write more thoughtful articles on software development in general.

You can contact me by e-mail at rdingwall@gmail.com, or via my LinkedIn profile. I also have Twitter (@dingwallr) and Last.fm (rdingwall), although I tend not to answer out-of-the-blue friend requests. Send me a message first :)