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Download the slides from our August London user group about Flex, Silverlight and JavaFX.

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

• London User Group : See details about our previous sessions and download slides.
• Google Group : Sign-up for discussion related to software architecture.
• Facebook group : If you're on Facebook, join our group and see who else is interested in software architecture near you.

• 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

• How do you maintain your coding skills?
  Jason Chambers has a great blog entry called Do Architects need coding skills?, which talks about why architects need to be able to code. Given that this site is called Coding the Architecture, our thoughts on this will come as no surprise. In addition ...
• 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 ...
• Mind the gap again
  I did some technical consulting/due diligence on a large software development project recently where I'd been called in to look at how the project team was dealing with some of the non-functional requirements. I'm not sure exactly how large the project ...