Coding the Architecture - slides tag

Documenting your software architecture - why and how?

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:39:57 GMT

Another of the sessions that I delivered at the recent Software Architect 2009 conference was entitled "Documenting your software architecture - why and how?" and covered some of the drivers for creating software architecture documentation along with some guidelines on how to do this. As I said in the session, any software architecture documentation should be complementary to the code and describe what the code itself doesn't. For example, it's really hard to identify things like architectural principles, operational aspects and how security works from just the code itself.

As with Broadening the T, I'm going to put one or more essays together that cover the content in more detail. In the meantime, you can view or download the slides.

Broadening the T

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:46:00 GMT

One of the sessions that I delivered at the recent Software Architect 2009 conference was entitled "Broadening the T" and covered the sort of skills and knowledge that I think are needed by hands-on software architects. This included things like seeing the big picture, dealing with non-functional requirements (we focussed on performance and scalability), using patterns at the architecture level, testing architectures, monitoring and diagnosing performance problems. Some concrete advice was given throughout the presentation with Java and .NET being used to give some real-world context.

I have a load of notes on the Keynote version of the slides and I'm going to put one or more essays together that cover the content in more detail. In the meantime, you can view or download the slides.

A developer's guide to load testing - slides

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:40:49 GMT

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 continue the discussion, please feel free to use the Google Group.

A developer's guide to load testing (PDF, ~4MB)

I'll post an update when the Skills Matter podcast/video is available to view online.

Java for .NET developers

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:54:00 GMT

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 decided to include some slides after the DevWeek books were printed. For those of you not there; the session went through an overview of Java, getting Java, building a hello world application, IDEs and tooling, an Eclipse demo, an overview of Java webapps, some beyond the basics material (JVM flags, garbage collection tuning, monitoring/management with JConsole, ClassLoaders/isolation) and some recommended paths to get started. As I promised, here's the link to download the slides...

An introduction to the Java platform for .NET developers (PDF, ~7.4MB)

Pitfalls for software architects

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 08:50:00 GMT

Thanks to everybody that came along to my "Pitfalls for new software architects" talk at DevWeek 2009 last week ... I hope you found it a useful look at some of the traps that I've seen people (including myself!) fall into over the years. The pitfalls are structured into a number of different areas as shown in the diagram below.

Each of these areas is part of our view of what a hands-on software architect should do, and the talk itself compliments a session I delivered at Software Architect 2008 called "Why software projects fail". You can download the slides for both sessions below.

Pitfalls for new software architects (PDF, ~4MB)

Why software projects fail (PDF, ~6MB)