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Kevin Seal

 

Kevin has been working with Java for 10 years, in defence research through dot com to investment banking. Currently he works at JPMorgan developing front-office trading solutions.

While getting on well with server-side Java, Kevin's also a keen Swing developer (and possibly masochist).

E-mail : kevin.seal at codingthearchitecture.com

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Is your development process about to be eroded?
The following quote from The Economist (Jan 3rd-9th) provides a reasonable analogy for what some development teams are experiencing as once free-flowing technology investment starts to dry up: For the more curmudgeonly sort of older manager, the ... 		25-Jan-2009
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There's nothing new under the Sun...
Ah, writing frameworks - the most noble of pastimes for experienced developers! I've written my fair share of frameworks over the course of my career in software development: workflow, integration, content management, validation, data-binding, ... 		17-Dec-2008
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Conway's Law
Conway's Law is an underrated, or at least, underused design observation. In short, it asserts that: Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure. ... 		07-Dec-2008
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London User Group - October 2008
Here are the details of the October London User Group. Title : Testing as an Architectual Concern Summary : In this session, Kevin Seal will present some recent experiences of testing a JavaEE project and how coverage was a double-edged sword, unit ... 		14-Oct-2008
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Testing Times
Having recently taken another look at my project's unit testing strategy I thought I'd share some of my thoughts on how I see unit testing as just another force on the system's design. As such it needs to be weighed in the balance with the other forces. ... 		26-Sep-2008