kevlin henney 

I am an independent software development consultant and trainer based in Bristol, UK. I founded Curbralan Limited, the vehicle for my business, in 2000. Prior to that I was a principal technologist at QA Training and before that a senior software developer. I have variously developed and delivered training courses, consultancy and software across a number of domains ever since getting involved in professional software development in the late 1980s. Email me here or, if that does not appear to get through, try me at kevlin dot henney at gmail dot com.

My professional interests include patterns, programming practice, agile development processes, OO and component-based design, software architecture, distributed object systems, UML, C++, Java, C# and programming languages in general.

I am a member of the BSI C++ standard panel and ISO C++ committee, on the advisory board of The C++ Source, on the editorial board for Transactions on Pattern Languages of Programming, a member of the ACCU, a member of the Hillside Group, a columnist for Reg Developer and SearchSoftwareQuality.com, a regular speaker at conferences and a past contributor to the Boost libraries. I was formerly a columnist for Application Development Advisor (RIP), C/C++ Users Journal (RIP) online C++ Experts Forum, JavaSpektrum, Java Report (RIP) and C++ Report (RIP). I am also an article contributor to other magazines (not all of which have folded, although EXE (RIP) deserves a special mention). I am on the the advisory board for Hillside Europe and the committees for the BoostCon and NLUUG conferences. I have also been on the programme committees and advisory panels for various conferences, including EuroPLoP, ACCU, JAOO, VikingPLoP, OT and SIGS/101. I was the programme chair and joint editor of the proceedings for EuroPLoP 2003.

I am coauthor, along with Frank Buschmann and Doug Schmidt, of the fourth and fifth volumes of Wiley's Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture series, A Pattern Language for Distributed Computing and On Patterns and Pattern Languages. I have also been toying with writing up Programmer's Dozen, a collection of thirteen recommendations for refactoring, reviewing and regaining control of code that I have been presenting over the last five years at conferences and to clients. Currently on hold is the C++ Patterns project.

Here is a fairly serious studio shot of me from a few (many) years ago, to be contrasted with this, which is an altogether less sober one of me at the Hackerhaus in Munich during OOP 2000. At OOPSLA 2001 in Tampa, this shot catches me with a beer, and this shot with ice cream, Joseph Bergin, Frank Buschmann and some associated balloons. Here is a shot of me with my son, Stefan, when he was ten-weeks old. And here are some shots of me caught in the act of consultancy at a customer site in Hong Kong in front of a window, in deep thought and in mid-flow.

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