Simon Brown
Software architect, developer, consultant, coach, trainer, international conference speaker and author. Oh, and I still write code. :-)Website: http://www.simonbrown.je
Twitter: @simonbrownFollow @simonbrown
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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? Read more...
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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 ...
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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) ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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I've added a page on itjersey.com where I've started pulling together a list of people that are speaking about IT on an international stage. Currently the list is Aonghus Fraser and myself but I'm sure there are more. If you're based in ...
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There's been a lot of discussion in Jersey recently about growing the local IT industry through things like Gigabit Jersey and improving the way in which ICT is taught in schools. Specifically, there's also been discussion about how to attract ...
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I've made a number of updates to itjersey.com over the past few days and here's a quick summary1. I've added a community page that lists the most active local IT communities. I've added an events page where you'll find a list of local ...
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There's a thread on the Digital Jersey LinkedIn group called With Jersey looking to grow the technology industries - how good is technology education in the islands schools? What could be done to improve it? with some interesting thoughts on ...
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I'm pleased to say that I'll be speaking at a number of software development events in 2012 across Europe, including... QCon London 2012 I'm running a 1-day tutorial called Are you a software architect? that explores the role of the ...
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