My wife wants to start a web store selling all kinds of children products like clothing, toys and perhaps some small furniture. So there is a need for an internet store where she can list these products and try to sell them.

I guess the normal procedure would be to try and find a service/product that enables her to do just that, but she married the wrong guy for that, at least until I have to declare defeat.

Anyway I thought that combining my wife’s needs and my own would be an ideal solution, again at least for me, we’ll see what she thinks about it after a while. So what are my needs?

FubuMVC – v.Reboot

As some of you (or most I actually don’t know my target audience good enough to make these statements) may already know Jeremy Miller has been putting a lot (read amazing amount) of work into FubuMVC replacing/rewriting parts of the original FubuMVC code base that Chad Myers initiated from lessons learned. I encourage you to read this first and second post about this reboot from Jeremy to learn more about it.

But all this does mean that I have to dig deep into the FubuMVC code again and see what has changed and how it now works, sure most of the basic principles are still true, but especially on the configuration side many things have changed. Also the behavior chain as the controller is now an option that I am looking forward to be using. And hopefully I’ll be able to add my own pet peeve; behavior chains for partials even further separating responsibilities.

DDD using CQRS and Event Sourcing

And I want to incorporate CQRS using Event Sourcing into this as well, but not just that I’ll be using this to drive the development of my PI solution for this approach. You may read some initial thoughts about that here. Nothing beats developing something then driven by actual usage. I am also thinking about incorporating Udi Dahan’s thoughts into this by not making my aggregate roots into huge tree structures, but by keeping it as flat as possible.

Sharing by blogging and OSS

I am building this for myself, for my wife really, anyway those are the specifications what I’ll be fulfilling (and yes I am going to try to make this as real as I can). Perhaps it is also time for me to start trying MSpec, but on the other hand I really like to try out Cucumber using Duke4Nuke and TeamCity. It would be great if I could get a public build server for this (CodeBetter?).

Anyway I want to make this completely in the open by providing all the source code via my GitHub account and also blog about the whole process. These posts would be covering everything, so from project setup with FubuMVC till some specifications and all the things that go into the creation of my PI CQRS solution (to early to call it a framework yet).

Now together with writing my book and many other things you should not expect a high speed project where this is build in no-time. So patience is a good thing here.

So?

Well I would like your feedback about this, what do you think about this approach? Also I would need a name for the project, both for the web store and for the PI CQRS solution. I hope you can help me with that, as I am very bad with names (we are currently looking into children names again and my wife will testify that I am indeed very bad at this).