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1	Software architecture training for £500 The first run of our software architecture training is taking place on the 16th/17th of June at Skills Matter. As is traditional with Skills Matter courses, the first teach is offered at a discounted rate, meaning that you can get two days of training ...	02-Jun-2008 11:53:02
2	Mind the gap Our industry has a love/hate relationship with the software architect role, with many organisations dismissing it because of their negative experiences of architects that dictate from "ivory towers" and aren't engaged with the actual task of building ...	02-May-2008 11:58:03
3	Question of the week This week's question is a common one that I get... I'm an aspiring software architect and I'm working on a project as a developer. I'm not going to get an architect role without having some experience, but we already have an architect on my project. ...	11-Apr-2008 19:50:17
4	What is a software architect? I've been talking through the role profile for software architects recently and I'm going to publish a revised version soon. In the meantime, I thought that it's worth clarifying exactly who the profile is aimed at. Although there might not be a common ...	10-Apr-2008 19:30:00
5	Question of the week We get a number of question from people about software architecture and since most of the answers are applicable to a wider audience, we thought it would be good to share them. For this reason, we're going to post a question of the week (we will ...	28-Mar-2008 11:15:37
6	Architecture tutorial @ QCon London 2008 Just a quick note to say that, in just over a week, Kevin Seal and myself are running an all-day tutorial at QCon London 2008. Entitled Coding the Architecture : From Developer to Architect, this tutorial explains what architecture is and how to ...	29-Feb-2008 14:40:00
7	The key difference between developer and architect roles At our last user group, we asked people what they thought the key difference between the developer and architect roles was. I said that I'd publish the results, so here they are : Architect has responsibility for ensuring coherence of all aspects ...	11-Feb-2008 15:48:00
8	Infrastructure architecture and the similarities to software I've just finished working on a review of the infrastructure architecture behind a number of fairly large media websites. Infrastructure isn't really my speciality1, but what I found interesting about this piece of work was the number of direct ...	06-Feb-2008 11:41:23
9	Common sense... I've just spent a day helping out on a project I had some involvement with last year. For some reason it apparently puts people's minds at ease when an old face gets involved (actually, my face isn't that old - perhaps I mean't "a familiar face"?) ...	28-Jan-2008 11:21:00
10	London User Group - December 2007 Thanks very much to everybody that came along to the London User Group last Thursday night - it was our largest turnout yet at just under 40 people. Also, congratulations to the winners of the QCon London 2008 pass and the books. We look forward to ...	11-Dec-2007 17:12:33
11	Who's paying for this? I like working with users as they often give really good feedback. They're the ones who have to live with the software every day so tend to be very clear about how it helps/hinders their work. Is it naive to think that making users happy by meeting ...	07-Dec-2007 10:43:53
12	Technology selection Technology selection is generally seen as one of the most fun parts of the software architect role because you get to sit down, download something new and learn how it works. And it is fun, but my view of it has changed over the last couple of years. ...	04-Dec-2007 19:51:48
13	Once an architect, always an architect? I'm currently on holiday. It's not much of a holiday admittedly, as it's doing development work. I thought I'd try "going back" to development for a bit as the project sounded interesting and it would give me a chance to experience being downstream of ...	29-Nov-2007 14:34:15
14	Why do so many technology projects fail? The Financial Times published an interesting article earlier in the week entitled Perspectives: Why do so many technology projects fail? (registration required) detailing a court action between BSkyB and EDS. In summary, it's about the failure to ...	23-Nov-2007 14:48:00
15	London User Group - December 2007 Here are the details of the December Coding the Architecture London User Group. Title : From Developer to Architect Summary : The transition from software developer to software architect is often shrouded in mystique and few people talk about it. But ...	20-Nov-2007 17:02:29
16	Where's the coffee machine? I have recently moved into a technical architect role at a new client. Over the last month or so, I have asked lots of questions. Here are some that I found particularly useful... Who is that? - I always ask for a new client's organisation chart, or ...	16-Nov-2007 08:36:00
17	Technical Architects in Investment Banking I had an interesting conversation with a recruiter the other day who claimed the job title of "Technical Architect" was nearly redundant in the City of London's investment banking sector. Instead of looking for technical architects, he claimed that city ...	14-Nov-2007 09:55:06
18	Performance tuning Java systems One of my current projects involves me performance testing a third party Java system. In essence, it's a distributed/n-tier Java EE web application and we're hitting it with a high simulated load thanks to Apache JMeter. One of the things we found is ...	05-Nov-2007 12:23:34
19	Trusted advisers If you take a look at most organisations, it's fairly obvious that technology is there to support the business - it's there to enable new business, make existing business more efficient, reduce costs and so on. With technology taking on this subservient ...	22-Aug-2007 09:39:00
20	Architects during the transition phase If you view the software development cycle from a RUP perspective, the transition phase is all about ensuring operational quality and moving the system into production deployment. Nothing new here, but what's interesting is that most architecture roles ...	13-Aug-2007 20:45:00

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