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The role of the Software Architect in successful projects
Admittedly the "Coding the Architecture" audience for this is probably kind of small (hi Dave!), but I'm presenting a session at the Jersey BCS in a few weeks entitled "The role of the Software Architect in successful projects". The IT industry has a ... |
30-Oct-2008 21:26:00 |
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Becoming more architecturally aware - part 2
Last time I talked about how we need to understand how application frameworks are designed and work behind the scenes in order to produce code that is consistent and compliant with the overall architectural principles. The second aspect that we need to ... |
28-Oct-2008 20:18:49 |
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Becoming more architecturally aware - part 1
In my Mind the gap essay and Why Software Projects Fail presentation, I talk about how we as developers should be more architecturally aware if we are to bridge the gap between the code and the overall design. I include myself in this statement because ... |
17-Oct-2008 10:06:00 |
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The role of a hands-on software architect
Becoming a software architect isn't something that simply happens overnight or with a promotion. It's a role, not a rank. It's an evolutionary process where you'll gradually gain the experience and confidence that you need to undertake the role. While ... |
10-Sep-2008 18:33:00 |
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How much architecture is enough?
Thanks to everybody that came along to our "in *our* brains" session last week where we tried to answer the question of how much architecture is enough. The event was part of Skills Matter's London Agile Month and it was a great turnout where we had some ... |
08-Sep-2008 17:01:00 |
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How much architecture is enough?
This Wednesday, after the training course and as a part of Skills Matter's London Agile Month, we'll be running a session entitled "How much architecture is enough?". Although this is billed as "In the Brain of Simon Brown", it's actually going to be an ... |
01-Sep-2008 11:11:25 |
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Discussion from the May 2008 user group
Although this happened a few months ago, we recorded the discussion that followed our London user group where Moudud Ahmed talked about building a high volume, low latency system in Java. Here are some of the topics that we talked about. Performance ... |
30-Aug-2008 07:57:27 |
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Software architecture training in London
The next public run of our software architecture training is taking place on the 2nd/3rd of September at Skills Matter. Join us for a course that takes a pragmatic view of what software architecture is all about, what's expected of software architects ... |
29-Aug-2008 15:40:00 |
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How do you maintain your coding skills?
Jason Chambers has a great blog entry called Do Architects need coding skills?, which talks about why architects need to be able to code. Given that this site is called Coding the Architecture, our thoughts on this will come as no surprise. In addition ... |
15-Aug-2008 15:38:00 |
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London User Group - August 2008
Here are the details of the August London User Group. Title : Flex, Silverlight or JavaFX - which should you choose? Summary : Rich Internet Applications are a hot topic at the moment; with Adobe, Microsoft and Sun vying for your attention in a ... |
11-Aug-2008 19:47:25 |
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Mind the gap again
I did some technical consulting/due diligence on a large software development project recently where I'd been called in to look at how the project team was dealing with some of the non-functional requirements. I'm not sure exactly how large the project ... |
04-Aug-2008 17:12:46 |
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Experience should guide, not constrain
One of the things that makes an architect is experience, and in many cases an architect has got where they are because of the expertise that they've built up in their chosen technology; be it Java, .NET or whatever. I'm still of the opinion that it's ... |
30-Jul-2008 21:08:00 |
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Following the specification
Back in the days when J2EE app servers were the best thing since sliced bread, I remember having lots of discussions with people about the J2EE specifications and I don't mind admitting that it was always my goal to build a truly spec compliant ... |
17-Jul-2008 19:29:00 |
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London User Group - July 2008
The next London user group is Tuesday 15th July and it'll be a social event rather than the usual presentation/discuss... |
11-Jul-2008 16:40:00 |
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Who should own the non-functional tests?
This is a follow-up to a post entitled Performance tuning Java systems that I made last year, which talked about some performance testing that I was doing for a customer. Last week, I went back to the same customer to make some small tweaks to the test ... |
07-Jul-2008 11:03:00 |
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Slides from our Software Architect 2008 sessions
As mentioned before, we were speakers at, and community sponsors of the Software Architect 2008 conference (3rd-5th June 2008, London). This is the first dedicated software architecture conference that I've been to and the majority of the other attendees ... |
11-Jun-2008 14:36:33 |
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London User Group - June 2008
Here are the details of the June London User Group. Title : Themes from the Software Architect 2008 conference Summary : Join us for a discussion of the themes from the recent Software Architect 2008 conference that took place in early June at the ... |
09-Jun-2008 12:48:00 |
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Software architecture training for £500
The first run of our software architecture training is taking place on the 16th/17th of June at Skills Matter. As is traditional with Skills Matter courses, the first teach is offered at a discounted rate, meaning that you can get two days of training ... |
02-Jun-2008 11:53:02 |
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NFRs for system replacements
As software architects, we tend to write about non-functional requirements a lot; particularly about how they should be defined and challenged because of the influence they have. One of the reasons for talking about NFRs a lot is that, in the majority, ... |
28-May-2008 11:35:00 |
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Scalability Principles
At the simplest level, scalability is about doing more of something. This could be responding to more user requests, executing more work or handling more data. While designing software has its complexities, making that software capable of doing lots of ... |
21-May-2008 14:12:25 |
