Anna Liu's Weblog
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
Links to various things from my TechEd Preso
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
Links to my ACS NSW Chapter Software Factory Presentation
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