Simon Brown

Depending on your viewpoint, Simon is either a software architect who codes or a software developer who understands architecture. When he's not developing software with .NET or Java, Simon can usually be found consulting, coaching or training. Simon has also written books about Java, presented at industry events and has put together a training course called Software architecture for developers, which is based upon his software architecture writing at Coding the Architecture.

Twitter: @simonbrown
E-mail: simon.brown at codingthearchitecture.com

Recent Blog Entries
1	Ikke så smidig prosjektmetode, likevel? While with Bouvet, in addition to the digi.no interview, Simen Sommerfeldt and I were interviewed by Teknisk Ukeblad about how agile isn't a substitute for basic software engineering, architecture and craftsmanship. Read Ikke så smidig ...	09-Jan-2012
2	Smidig må kombineres med arkitektur I spent a fantastic few days with Bouvet in Oslo towards the end of last year where talked about software architecture with some of the team, customers and press. For the Norwegian speakers that haven't seen it, Simen Sommerfeldt and I were interviewed ...	08-Jan-2012
3	Contextualising just enough up front design In our move away from the waterfall way of building software, it's common for software teams to ask how much up front design they should be doing. Just enough is a good starting point but what exactly does that mean?	05-Jan-2012
4	RE: Clean Architecture Clean Architecture is a follow-up post by Uncle Bob to much of the recent commentary on Clean Code Episode VII - Architecture, Use Cases, and High Level Design, including my own post called The delivery mechanism is an annoying detail. I'll keep this ...	22-Nov-2011
5	The Frustrated Architect - video and slides A really short note to say that the video and slides from my "The Frustrated Architect" talk at Skills Matter yesterday evening are now all available online. Here are the links... Abstract and slides (online view and downloadable PDF) Video ...	16-Nov-2011
6	The delivery mechanism is an annoying detail In my The Frustrated Architect presentation at GOTO Aarhus in October*, I talked about how there are a number of "classic" software design techniques from the pre-agile era that are being used less and less. For example, things like UML, ...	06-Nov-2011
7	GOTO Aarhus 2011 and Software Architect 2011 Conference season is again upon us and I'm speaking at two events over the next couple of weeks. GOTO Aarhus 2011 I'm presenting a session at the GOTO conference in Aarhus, Denmark called The Frustrated Architect that will look at the role of the ...	06-Oct-2011
8	Effective Sketches at Skills Matter I presented my "Effective Sketches" talk last night at Skills Matter where we looked at how to produce effective diagrammatic representations of software systems and why they are useful. In other words, we looked at how to draw boxes and lines. :-) ...	02-Sep-2011
9	Using Evernote for training courses There's been some interesting discussion on Twitter recently about whether trainers should provide handouts before training, after training or even at all. Some organisations that I train through do provide printed slide handouts and some don't. My ...	27-Aug-2011
10	Load Testing for Developers September sees me picking up the travel baton again and one of the things I'm doing is a half-day session at the Skills Matter Progressive .NET Tutorials in London on the 6th. The session is called Load Testing for Developers and it's exactly what ...	25-Aug-2011