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Coding the Architecture RSS feed for Simon Brown [Coding the Architecture] Just a short note to plug a handful of sessions that Kevin and I are presenting at the upcoming Software Architect 2008 conference, 3rd-5th June, London. 1. Coding the Architecture : From Developer to Architect The first is a re-run of our ...

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QCon London 2008 - day 2
The first session I attended on day 2 was called "Architecting for Performance and Scalability", where representatives from Terracotta, (Oracle) Coherence, GigaSpaces, etc (and eBay) came together to talk about the different approaches to building ...
14-Mar-2008
08:46:00
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QCon London 2008 - day 1
Erich Gamma's keynote got the QCon London 2008 conference underway, where he talked about his experiences with the Eclipse project over the past seven years. There were a few interesting points during this session but I'm going to write about those ...
13-Mar-2008
09:32:00
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When will the offshore bubble burst?
Hearing management teams talk about offshore is becoming a more frequent occurrence these days and most large organisations that I've met in the past six months are starting to invest in offshoring if they've not done so already. That's not really ...
14-Feb-2008
11:08:00
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Interested in software architecture?
Interested in software architecture? Based in London? With just a week to go, here are the details of the first Coding the Architecture London User Group. Title : The Implications of Architecting a Tactical Solution Summary : The topic for this, the ...
28-Aug-2007
20:57:00
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My role
Another week over and another two projects done and dusted. The first project started *and* finished this week. It was a two day technical consulting engagement where I helped out a support team fix some low level technical issues and assessed the ...
10-Aug-2007
20:31:00
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Do you need a Java architect?
I've organised a couple of unconference sessions in London over the next few weeks, with the purpose of discussing what it means to be an architect on a Java project. Doing such a session in a traditional presentation style wasn't really an option ...
28-Mar-2007
10:58:20
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Do you need an architect?
One of the things that I mention every time I do training or mentoring around technical architecture is that you don't just wake up one day and become a TA. From my experience, it's much more of an evolutionary path where you gradually take on more and ...
25-Oct-2006
13:27:00
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What is architecture?
Here's a short definition of architecture that somebody made after a presentation Paul and I did last week. Architecture is the stuff that you can't refactor in an afternoon. I got a kind of "yeah, that's actually about right" feeling. What do you ...
15-Feb-2006
14:51:43
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How many layers?
Here's (the paraphrased version of) a comment that I heard recently about the role of an architect that piqued my interest. "being an architect is about ensuring separation of concerns using layering" It's true that separation of concerns is a Good ...
08-Feb-2006
09:54:03
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The Top Ten Ways to Botch an Enterprise Java Application
If you're planning on heading to JavaOne this year, Cameron Purdy will be presenting what sounds like a very interesting talk on the top ten ways to botch an enterprise Java application. From his blog... Two of my presentations were accepted for ...
25-Jan-2006
13:28:33
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The Pragmatic Architect
If you've been wondering why it's been so quiet around here, it's because I've been storing up architect related content for a new site, which I'm pleased to announce, called The Pragmatic Architect. From the welcome note... On behalf of the team, ...
23-Jan-2006
19:36:06
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Architecture summit
As I briefly mentioned a couple of days ago, I attended the architecture summit last week - an event organised by Alexis Richardson (founder of Monadic and MetaLogic), Rod Johnson (Spring), Floyd Marinescu (founder of TheServerSide.com), Steve ...
09-Dec-2005
15:03:53
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Should architects code?
Interesting how this comes up time and time again. Just as some background, we (Evolution) are looking to recruit Technical Architects (Java and/or C#) and an Enterprise Technical Architect. As one of Evolution's senior architects, I'm involved in the ...
28-Sep-2005
14:18:22
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Architecture in RUP
Developing a J2EE Architecture with Rational Software Architect Using the Rational Unified Process is a good article about two topics - architecture in RUP and Rational's new Software Architecture tool (IRSA). While it looks long on first appearance, ...
25-Aug-2005
22:56:33