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A developer's guide to load testing - video
Just a quickie ... the video from A developer's guide to load testing at Skills Matter last week is now available to view online. The microphone picked up the questions and comments quite well, which is excellent. Enjoy, and feel free to use the Google ... |
15-Jun-2009 23:27:51 |
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June 2009 training course
I ran our From Developer to Architect training course (Coding the Architecture Workshop) earlier this week at Skills Matter in London. 8 people came along, all with slightly different levels of software development/architec... |
12-Jun-2009 23:06:00 |
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A developer's guide to load testing - slides
Thanks to everybody that came along to the CTA user group earlier in the week. The tube strike may had reduced the numbers but we still had some great discussion about load testing. My slides are available to download (~4MB) and if anybody wants to ... |
11-Jun-2009 19:40:49 |
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A developer's guide to load testing
Here are the details of the June 2009 London User Group. Title : A developer's guide to load testing Summary : Load testing is an often forgotten and seemingly difficult task that many people shy away from doing. It doesn't have to be this way though, ... |
02-Jun-2009 09:39:00 |
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Interview from DevWeek 2009
Eric Nelson from Microsoft interviewed me at the DevWeek 2009 conference about our software architecture workshop, transitioning into an architecture role and whether architects should code. Take a look ... it's a nice overview of our approach to ... |
20-May-2009 22:55:00 |
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Using new technology will make it faster
I heard an interesting throwaway comment recently that I thought I'd share. To paraphrase... The system is being rewritten with new technology, so it won't be slower than what we have now. While it's true that new and updated technology *can* ... |
15-May-2009 11:57:11 |
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Software architecture training in London
The next public run of our software architecture training is taking place on the 8th and 9th of June, at Skills Matter in London. This is a two-day course that Kevin and I put together to explain what software architecture is and what the role is all ... |
30-Apr-2009 20:30:00 |
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Java for .NET developers
Once again, thanks to everybody that came along to my Java for .NET developers talk at DevWeek 2009 last week. As I said during the session, I wanted to provide a good general overview along with some content that went beyond the basics, which is why I ... |
30-Mar-2009 12:54:00 |
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.NET systems need software architecture too
Although most of my experience has been building Java systems, I have worked alongside a few .NET development teams over the past few years, particularly in the banks where many of the new systems being built make use of a range of technologies. One ... |
24-Nov-2008 21:20:43 |
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Becoming more architecturally aware - part 2
Last time I talked about how we need to understand how application frameworks are designed and work behind the scenes in order to produce code that is consistent and compliant with the overall architectural principles. The second aspect that we need to ... |
28-Oct-2008 20:18:49 |
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Becoming more architecturally aware - part 1
In my Mind the gap essay and Why Software Projects Fail presentation, I talk about how we as developers should be more architecturally aware if we are to bridge the gap between the code and the overall design. I include myself in this statement because ... |
17-Oct-2008 10:06:00 |
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Discussion from the May 2008 user group
Although this happened a few months ago, we recorded the discussion that followed our London user group where Moudud Ahmed talked about building a high volume, low latency system in Java. Here are some of the topics that we talked about. Performance ... |
30-Aug-2008 07:57:27 |
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London User Group - August 2008
Here are the details of the August London User Group. Title : Flex, Silverlight or JavaFX - which should you choose? Summary : Rich Internet Applications are a hot topic at the moment; with Adobe, Microsoft and Sun vying for your attention in a ... |
11-Aug-2008 19:47:25 |
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Experience should guide, not constrain
One of the things that makes an architect is experience, and in many cases an architect has got where they are because of the expertise that they've built up in their chosen technology; be it Java, .NET or whatever. I'm still of the opinion that it's ... |
30-Jul-2008 21:08:00 |
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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 ... |
17-Jul-2008 19:29:00 |
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London User Group - May 2008
Here are the details of the May London User Group. Title : Building a high volume, low latency system in Java Summary : This session will provide some insight into the architecture, design and development of a greenfield high volume, low latency ... |
25-Apr-2008 14:30:52 |
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Question of the week
As mentioned last week, we are going to be sharing questions that we get asked that seem applicable to the CTA audience. Feel free to e-mail us your questions or use the Google Group. This weeks question is from a new hands-on technical architect. ... |
04-Apr-2008 10:39:11 |
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Podcast #2 : QCon revisited
As promised the 2nd CTA podcast is a roundtable discussion between some of the CTA contributors - namely Simon Brown, Sam Dalton and Kevin Seal. In this podcast we discuss some of the themes emerging from the recent QCon conference held in London and our ... |
25-Mar-2008 10:23:20 |
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JVM Lies: The OutOfMemory Myth
There are times when an OutOfMemoryError means exactly what it says. Try adding new objects to an ArrayList in a while(true) loop and you'll see what I mean. However, there are times when it doesn't. Recently, when I saw a vital supporting application ... |
14-Jan-2008 13:39:00 |
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The Clash of the Paradigms
I recently came across a subtle anti-pattern which has caused me some pains. This occurred in a successful application used extensively throughout a large financial corporation. It is a library, which is implemented in C++, but usable from several ... |
08-Jan-2008 10:29:00 |




