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

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• What is architecture?
  Towards a definition of architecture
• Types of architecture
  Treat enterprise architectures with a pinch of salt
• Mind the gap
  Reducing the gap between software developers and software architects

• 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 ...
• 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...
• 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 ...