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International Women's Day - FITT Luncheon 2007
It's been a year since the last International Women's Day luncheon where Sen Helen Coonan spoke....
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/08/2007
.NET 3.0 Virtual Labs available
For those of you that couldn't make to the CardSpace hands on lab, or the partner Readiness events,...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/07/2007
Modelling Building Interiors using Virtual Earth
Wow - this is the experience I want to have when I am browsing a realestate website looking for a...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/07/2007
CommSee - Architect Experience Captured via ARCast
Ever so often, people would be asking me for case studies/lessons learnt from a 'real world SOA'...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/06/2007
Empowering the Individual
Now that Frank is no longer my direct manager, I can only pick his brain over lunch hours. I asked...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/27/2007
Ways of Building a Career
I've been very priveleged to have a number of great mentors in my life. One of them is Len Bass. We...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/27/2007
A Woman wins Turing Award
Frances Allen is such an inspiration!
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/22/2007
Software As A Service - Sydney User Group
This long awaited meeting request arrived my inbox just now... When: Thursday, 1 March 2007 6:00...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/22/2007
Queen Mary 2 and Queen Elizabeth 2 in Sydney
traffic was so bad across the Sydney Harbour Bridge this morning - I think everyone was slowing down...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/19/2007
Building Highly Scalable Architecure and Web Infrastructure
with the buzz of Web 2.0, and the ever increasing volume of user requests online, building highly...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/18/2007
Eating out in Sydney
Finally, I can find out in an instant where to get good Italian food near my husband's office.
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/15/2007
Kevin Schofield visiting from Microsoft Research Redmond
Bernard is running a cool show - I'm definitely going to this, and see if Kevin has the latest...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/15/2007
Housewife no more
I've had a couple of weeks leave, staying home looking after the kids, doing home improvement,...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/15/2007
Watch Nerds FC Live
This email arrived my inbox today - it's from my cousin - the famous Astro Nerd from Nerds FC Season...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/21/2007
Technorati - claimed my blog finally!
yes, finally got around to this... Technorati Profile
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/16/2007
More CardSpace/.NET 3 training Available
Following on the CardSpace hands on lab that Nigel Watling helped me with last year, quite a few of...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/09/2007
Female Techies at Microsoft on Channel 9
Following on from my blog post on "Where are the Women Architects?", I've received some interesting...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/09/2007
iPhone User Experience - A Girlie Perspective
Lots of people have been talking about iPhone this morning - including Shane. My immediate reaction...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/09/2007
Roundtable Discussions from December 2006 Sydney Architect Forum
As per my previous blog, Nigel presented 'Software As A Service' to the Sydney Architet Council...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/18/2006
AIIA Business Briefing: Hotspots for our industry in 2007
I attended the end of year AIIA briefing last week. While I don't normally attend such a ICT...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/12/2006
Sydney Architect Council - Software As A Service
Nigel is leading the presentation and conversation focusing on the topic of Software As A Service at...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/12/2006
More Notes on Strategic Architect Forum
Looks like some of my colleagues have also been blogging about SAF. Here is a great one from Simon...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/03/2006
Sea Bass, Dungeoness Crab, Giant Scallops and Fatty Salmon!
Yes, for my indulgence in some of my absolute most fav yummy pacific northwest seafood, I'm paying...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/03/2006
Where Are the Women Architects?
Yet another architect at SAF commented on this today... "Where are the women architects? geez this...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/01/2006
Why Do I Blog?
A customer architect asked me why do I blog? I was a little caught by surprise, but a few things...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/01/2006
The Architectural Last Mile and Internet Singularity
Day 2 of SAF just wrapped up. I'm now back in my hotel room, thinking back on the exciting day I've...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/01/2006
Buy versus Build again!
Over the Strategic Architect Forum dinner tonight, this topic came up again, so I'm going to just...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/01/2006
Strategic Architect Forum (SAF) kicks off with a Bang!
Ray Lane delivered his opening keynote at SAF, discussing 'The Personal Enterprise', and of how for...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/29/2006
Sleepless in Seattle
just flew into Seattle Tacoma international airport. Wow, despite a relatively hassle free travel...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/28/2006
ozCHI 2006 Wrapped up!
I wish I had more time to spend at ozCHI 2006 - the best I could do was to spend a day there after I...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/26/2006
Research and Fabricated Complexity
I had the privelege to meet Willy Zwaenepoel on Thursday at a USyd seminar. He is one of the...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/26/2006
What a week!
What a week it's been... I've a huge backlog of blog posts I want to do, and I simply have been...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/26/2006
Use Case Modelling, Scenario Based Engineering, User centric design
If you are a software architect, human computer interface/interaction design specialist, business...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/14/2006
Photosynth Tech Preview is Live
I've been watching Photosynth for a while, and I've been eargerly waiting for the day that I can...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/09/2006
Virtual Earth 3D Launches
Check out the VE3D innovation, and imagine the mashup potential...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/07/2006
How to Audition for Nerds FC Season II
Due to popular requests for auditioning information from my previous blog on "Nerds FC - Audition...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/05/2006
Jim Webber's Sydney ACS Web Services Special Interest Group Talk
Jim is presenting on "Message-oriented Web Services" tonight at the ACS Web Services SIG. He'll be...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/31/2006
Nerds FC - Audition for Season II
I received an email from my cousin Johnny Truong - his claim to fame is as the Astro Nerd on Nerds...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/31/2006
Visual Studio Code Name "Orcas" October Community Technology Preview (CTP) is now available
Check out the various new advancements including ADO.NET 3.0, LINQ over XML, Multi-targeting,...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/30/2006
My 100th Blog Post
I guess a compilation of the 'Most' list would be appropriate to celebrate my 100th Blog Post! So,...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/29/2006
Where are the Girlie Gadgets?
As a mother with 2 young children who is also not all that into sport, I really don't care much for...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/29/2006
X Factor or Geek Factor
I finally met up with Yuhong in person today. We collaborated through John Grundy years ago, and...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/20/2006
Presenting at OZCHI 2006 in Sydney
Looks like I'll be presenting at this year's OZCHI conference. Especially excited since it's in my...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/17/2006
Holding Crucial Conversations - when stakes and emotions are high
I just completed the training course "Crucial Conversations" last week, and thoroughly enjoyed it!...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/16/2006
WS-Trust Under The Hood: on Channel 9
I have been doing a fair bit of Identity MetaSystem and CardSpace conversations with many of our...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/11/2006
Software Architecture Research Topics of relevance to Practitioners and the Community at Large
I often get asked by the research community this question: "what are the hot topics and promising...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/10/2006
Semantic Web, Microformats and Live Clipboard
I've had a long interest in semantic web, having a researcher background and all... but I must admit...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/06/2006
New Skin
following my neighrbour JeffA's footstep, after the upgrade of our Community Server, I thought I'd...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/04/2006