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 software development conferences, developed a software architecture training course and maintains a blog that’s running on his open source Java EE blogging tool called Pebble.

E-mail : simon.brown at codingthearchitecture.com

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We were speakers at, and community sponsors of Software Architect 2008
(3rd-5th June 2008, London). Here are the slides from our conference sessions.

• - Why Software Projects Fail
• - Sharing Architectures

• London User Group : Download the slides from our last London user group. Details of previous sessions are also available.
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• What is architecture?
  Towards a definition of architecture
• Mind the gap
  Reducing the gap between software developers and software architects

• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...