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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 and founded Coding the Architecture, providing practical and pragmatic content for hands-on software architects.

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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...

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[Twitter] simonbrown: wondering whether Adobe's commercial approach to Flex Builder will limit adoption of Flex ... which will be a shame, because I quite like it

[Coding the Architecture] 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 ...

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1	RUP elaboration I've just come across an article called Risk reduction with the RUP phase plan that talks about RUP's risk-driven approach and provides advice about choosing the right use cases during the elaboration phase. It is important to educate stakeholders ...	03-Apr-2006 16:04:49
2	Speculative design From Agile Answers comes the following paragraph (emphasis added), which is pretty timely given the conversations I've had recently. Do the simplest thing for the task at hand Originally a pushback against speculative development (particularly in ...	09-Feb-2006 10:59:58
3	How long is a timebox? One of the most common questions about timeboxing relates to the length of timeboxes. How long should they be and what factors influence this decision? While there are many recommendations out there, some of which are strongly tied to the development ...	23-Jan-2006 16:52:26
4	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