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Seven Things you need to know about Ajax

At the recent NZ TechEd, an audience member came up to me after my presentation and chatted about...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/02/2006

ICSE 2007 International Conference on Software Engineering - Call for Tutorial Proposals

I'm previleged to be the tutorial chair for ICSE2007. Hopefully you'll all be supporting me in...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/19/2006

Usability Studies on RSS Reading Habits

I received this in my inbox today: " Friends, Do you use an RSS Aggregator? MSR Asia is doing...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/06/2006

Hope is not an Architecture

Nils is now blogging - I love his blog title "Hope is not an Architecture"!Check it out - he's a...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/04/2006

Live Labs' Security Token Service Implementation

Are you using CardSpace? keen to try it out with a Security Token Service? Live Lab has this STS...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/01/2006

Spending a Beautiful Spring Day in Canberra

I went to Canberra today, to host a CardSpace workshop with my colleague Nils. I noticed a few...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/30/2006

CardSpace – Lessons Learnt

Phil wrote up his learning from the CardSpace hands on lab.

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/28/2006

TechEd Sydney: My 10 passions

Frank posted the TechEd Sydney attendees’ passions, and the ones he shares. Here is my list of top...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/27/2006

Kia Ora! TechEd New Zealand writeup

The TechEd New Zealand people wrote up a summary of my presentation on TechEd Live. I’m impressed!...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/27/2006

As requested by a number of you that attended my presentation at TechEd nz and oz, here are the...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/26/2006

Ian’s blogging now too

Expect to see some cool blogs at Ian’s site – my prediction is that for every blog about software...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/26/2006

Julian Wymer doing Year 10 Work Experience at Microsoft Australia

Julian Wymer is a year 10 student from Picton High, spending the week here with us on his year 10...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/15/2006

Software As a Service (SaaS) Architect Guidance

Software As A Service (SaaS) architecture guidance site on msdn just went live. Check it out! Fred...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/15/2006

TechEd oz 2006 Ask The Experts Evening

The Ask The Experts evening is on Wednesday 23rd Aug 6:30pm. This year – we’re going to shake things...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/13/2006

Introducing strangers through fast social game play

Via Shannon, I found out about this cool project at CSIRO – Air Hockey over a distance. I can’t wait...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/13/2006

Nigel Watling presents CardSpace Hands on Lab

Have you seen Nigel Watling – technical evangelist CardSpace on channel 9? His demos are really...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/08/2006

Windows Live Local guru - Jay Nanduri’s visiting Sydney!

I’ve been eagerly waiting for Jay Nanduri to visit Sydney ever since I spoke to him back in April...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/07/2006

August Sydney Architect Council – Online Id Management & CardSpace Hands On Lab

We had a great architect council gathering last week, and were privileged to have Kim Cameron as the...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/06/2006

Meeting TechEd Speakers face to face

As developers, the support we receive online is at an unprecedented high… if we’re sick of plowing...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/31/2006

Meeting an Information Architect

I had the pleasure of meeting Paul Sestito of Hothouse yesterday. Paul is an Information Architect,...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/31/2006

Book Sale as a Technology Trend Indicator

O’Reilly presented an interesting perspective on looking at Technology Trend by looking at book...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/31/2006

Innovation from Live Lab

PhotoSynth is creating lots of buzz everywhere – and it has reinvigorated the ‘scientist’ in me –...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/31/2006

Architecting High Usability Applications

Len Bass of SEI and Bonnie John of CMU produced this paper on Usability and Architecture...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/24/2006

Australian e-Government Services equally challenged as the Big Banks

My colleague Nils van Boxsel (who unfortunately does not yet blog – so I can’t do a track back to...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/24/2006

Large Enterprises Fail in Online Mission

This article from Sydney Morning Herald provides some great insight into why some large enterprise...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/24/2006

Meet the TechEd team

Courtesy of Bernard our intern, here is a video production of the Tech.Ed Meego family. Btw you can...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/23/2006

My Blogging Frequency is conversely proportional to how busy I am

My observation of my own blogging style – the more busy I am with doing various architecture design...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/20/2006

Play with CardSpace, Now!

Go play with CardSpace in the sandbox – Now!

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/17/2006

Scobleizer’s Post on Case for Research

Robert Scoble’s recent post on Case for Research made me miss my past life as a researcher at the...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/17/2006

Internet Explorer 7 Readiness Toolkit For Web Developers

The Internet Explorer 7 Readiness Toolkit is available here for anyone that is involved in the...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/16/2006

New User Interface enabling Next Generation innovation

Patrick collects ‘old geeky things’ - calculators, computer bits, cameras, etc. He thinks it’s...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/15/2006

Ask The Experts at TechEd Australia

I’m in charge. Michael Kleef asked me to ‘be on point’ for the ‘Ask The Experts’ session at TechEd...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/15/2006

An Outlook meeting request with driving directions

I am most impressed by one of my favourite colleagues at Microsoft Peter Ulm – he just sent me a...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/11/2006

Windows Communication Foundation’s Management Capabilities

Thanks for Craig McMurtry, here is a very comprehensive list of WCF management capabilities:...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/06/2006

FY07 Microsoft Australia Company Meeting

I spent the last two days at the Microsoft Australia FY07 Company Meeting at Star City Sydney,...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/06/2006

Miss American Beauty’s email

Sonja – Miss American Beauty from the IT Screen Goddess Calendar project emailed me: “Hey howdy saw...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/05/2006

Rolling your own Integration server

I have been doing a couple of solution architecture reviews lately… and I came across yet another...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/03/2006

IT Screen Goddess Wannabe

I want to be on this IT Screen Goddess Calendar. I wish I could be miss May - Lucy Liu lookalike in...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/03/2006

Middleware for Service-oriented computing Conference

Stefan just wrote to me: "On behalf of the organizing committee for the 1st Middleware for...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/02/2006

Kevin Francis - Architect MVP again!

Kevin just emailed me to announce the great news: " Hi Guys, It seems that my MVP status has been...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/02/2006

August Sydney Architect Council - Kim Cameron on Identity 2.0

Kim is paying us a visit in Sydney on 3rd August - he'll be addressing the Sydney Architect Council,...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/02/2006

Chatting to Dr Patrick Chan about SOA

I met Dr Patrick Chan, Head of Emerging Technologies, IDC Asia Pacific over lunch today. It was part...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/25/2006

I enjoyed meeting and chatting to 20 or so enterprise developers/architects/business analysts and...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/15/2006

Software factories presentation at ACS SIG

Thanks to Frank for the reminder - I'm actually on annual leave this fortnight, but I am scheduled...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/11/2006

Hooked on Powerpoint 2007 SmartArt

I've been using Office 2007 Beta 2 for a week now, and I'm absolutely hooked on Powerpoint2007...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/08/2006

Meeting Virtual Earth guru

Today I had the privilege to meet Niall McDonnell - Lead Software Development Engineer for Virtual...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/07/2006

Infocard is not the son of Passport

Passport was designed to solve two problems: Identity Provider for MSN: for this pupose, Passport...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/01/2006

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