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Nat Pryce is an independent consultant. He has his own website at
http://www.natpryce.com
He currently works as an Überdeveloper at UBS in London.
Before that...
- He was an "Überdeveloper" at Sky Network Services
- He was an "EnterpriseArchitect" at BNP Paribas
- He was a consultant at ThoughtWorks.
- He was Technical Director of B13 Media, a technology, design and management consultancy that specialised in the sports and sports marketing industries.
- He experienced the ups and downs of the dot-com bubble at Quokka Sports Inc.
- He received a PhD at Imperial College, London. His thesis, entitled Component Interaction in Distributed Systems, is on-line at http://www-dse.doc.ic.ac.uk/~np2/phd/.
I'm using this as my home page on the
WikiWikiWeb. If you want to leave me a message, append it to the the bottom of this page and I should notice it pretty soon.
I did a lot of work in distributed systems, middleware, components and frameworks. Check out my old home-page at Imperial
http://www-dse.doc.ic.ac.uk/~np2 for more info about my research in those areas.
Based on my work on distributed component-based systems and frameworks, I contributed to the
ComponentDesignPatterns. I have concentrated on the lower-levels of the pattern language, focusing on what distinguishes a component, how components are defined and how they interact. The patterns I have documented include
AbstractInteractions,
ThirdPartyBinding,
ComponentBus and
ComponentGlue. Feel free to add comments; feedback is very useful.
Related to the
ComponentDesignPatterns, I collected patterns of software systems that use scripting (e.g.
AlternateHardAndSoftLayers) or are written in scripting languages. They are available at
http://www-dse.doc.ic.ac.uk/~np2/patterns/scripting.
I did quite a bit of Java programming and contributed to the collection of
JavaIdioms and to the discussion on
ExceptionPatterns.
A lot of the Java idoms and ideas relating to the design and implementation of component-based frameworks are used in a framework I wrote called
SceneBeans. Documentation and code are on-line at
http://www-dse.doc.ic.ac.uk/Software/SceneBeans/.
I am interested in
TestDrivenProgramming. I wrote the first version of the dynamic
MockObjects library for Java and am now maintaining the latest version, jMock (
http://www.jmock.org), with
SteveFreeman. JMock begat
HamCrest, which is now used by
JavaUnit. I have also written
WindowLicker, for test-driving GUI code and TeamPiazza
? (
http://team-piazza.googlecode.com), a build monitor plug-in for the TeamCity
? ContinuousIntegration server.
I am interested in
PostModernProgramming (see
http://www.postmodernprogramming.org) and ran a ScrapheapChallengeWorkshop
? at OOPSLA'05, PoMoPro
? 2006 and SPA 2007 that investigated this topic.
I am a regular at the
ExtremeTuesdayClub and have been involved in the London XpDay
? since the first conference in 2000. I was programme chair in 2004 and 2005, and poster chair in 2006.
I was honoured to receive the Gordon Pask award from the Agile Alliance in 2006.
I have a blog that I use as combination of online engineer's notebook and outlet for self-deprecating humour. It is at
http://www.natpryce.com.
Nat - Thanks for your post on
TestDataBuilders. How do you solve the problem of testing DAOs with persistent data using data builders? Thanks. I can be reached via the comment form on www.systemmobile.com.
My colleague James Richardson has written a good article explaining how we test persistence code with JUnit and
TestDataBuilders:
http://www.time4tea.net/wiki/display/MAIN/Testing+Persistent+Objects+Without+Spring
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