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Simon is a hands-on software architect who works within Detica's Global Financial Markets group. Simon has been involved in projects ranging from desktop clients and web applications through to highly scalable distributed systems and service-oriented architectures (SOA). His specialist technology is Java and, as a hands-on technical authority, he's called upon to advise and shape solutions; defining, delivering and assuring that the chosen architecture is fit for purpose and meets the non-functional requirements. Simon has also written and co-written a number of books about Java EE web technologies, spoken at several conferences (e.g. QCon and JavaOne) and founded Coding the Architecture that’s running on his open source Java EE blogging tool called Pebble.

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1	QCon London 2008 - day 3 I have mixed feelings about day 3 at QCon, which started off with a brilliant session about the architectural principles behind eBay. Randy Shoup talked through the key principles, which are : Partition everything Async everywhere Automate everything ...	17-Mar-2008 10:58:00
2	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
3	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
4	QCon London : day 5 Friday was a morning keynote-free day and it was straight into the conference sessions. I stuck to the Ajax track throughout the day and it was certainly the right decision. I learnt so much about Ajax that I didn't know before and I've finally been ...	23-Mar-2007 21:25:00
5	QCon London : day 4 Thursday was another busy day and there were definitely a few sore heads from the social event the night before. Although I missed the opening keynote in person, my name somehow made it onto the big screen along with the other bloggers that are covering ...	21-Mar-2007 22:06:00
6	QCon London : day 3 Well, as you can see from my lack of updates, this has been one busy conference! I'm writing this on the train as I travel back into London for the final day's events and hopefully my battery will hold out so that I can actually connect to the wifi and ...	16-Mar-2007 09:11:00
7	QCon London : day 2 Another good day at the tutorials, although I only attended one of a possible two because I decided that finishing my introductory session for the "Java in Action" track was more important than going to both! The tutorial I attended was Mike Keith's ...	13-Mar-2007 22:04:00
8	QCon London : day 1 QCon London started today with the first of two days worth of tutorials. Mine, entitled "What can JMX do for you?" was one of the first in the schedule, starting at 9am. Turnout was good and I had a great time talking about and demonstrating JMX. We ...	12-Mar-2007 21:36:00
9	And the winner is... And the winner of the first QCon London pass is Jaro. Congratulations - I'll be in touch to get you signed up. :-) Don't forget that there's potentially more than one pass up for grabs, so you can still enter the draw to win a free pass.	05-Feb-2007 09:57:00
10	Free QCon London pass The first free QCon London pass is up for grabs and I'll be doing the draw early next week. If you want to be in with a chance to win it, get involved now.	02-Feb-2007 12:52:00
11	What can JMX do for you? As I've previously mentioned, I'm presenting an in-depth tutorial on JMX entitled What can JMX do for you?... JMX (the Java Management Extensions) is one of the lesser known jewels in the Java SE crown, and few people understand what this simple but ...	16-Jan-2007 21:42:00
12	javabloggers - win a free pass to QCon, London! How would you like a chance to win a free 5 day pass to QCon, London (12th-16th March 2007)? And how about a bit of discount at the same time? :-) Thanks to the QCon organisers, I’m pleased to announce that a special promotional code of javabloggers ...	11-Jan-2007 13:06:00
13	QCon : London gets a proper software development conference London (UK) has a staggering amount of software development and innovation going on, yet is rarely host to a software development conference of any note. Most of the "big" conferences tend to take place in the US, although this has started to change ...	08-Jan-2007 21:54:00