Colin, a core Spring developer, is an architect with over 18 years' experience in developing commercial software, including all aspects of the software development lifecycle. Colin is co-author of 'Professional Java Development with the Spring Framework'.

Colin has had a long and varied career, including experience developing for and managing his own retail software company, other experience in the C++ shrinkwrap and enterprise software space, experience with Java since '97, and a complete focus on enterprise Java since '99.

As architect and then chief architect at a software incubator / VC, from the '99 to 2004 time period, Colin's role was split between one part hands on architecture, design, and coding, another part mentoring and teaching best practices at the code and process level, and a final part performing technical due diligence and consulting for the VC arm. Throughout this period, Colin gained experience with and an appreciation for agile development practices as a vital part of software success.

Throughout his career, Colin's experience, wide ranging interests and general knowledge in the technology space have led him to be a resource that others have been able to draw on for advice. In general, Colin's background has left him with a deep knowledge of all it takes to successfully put out good software, at the code, process, and business level.

Along with client work at Interface21, Colin also spends significant time on Spring evangelism, including talks at a number of JUG meetings.

Colin is presenting the following session: -

Spring Web Flow and JSF