My new work place at UNSW just provided me with a new blogging home http://blogs.unsw.edu.au/annaliu/ see you over there!

I've resigned from Microsoft, and will be taking up an A/Professorship in Services Engineering at the University of NSW . To quote one of my favourite blogger - James Hamilton - 'Change is good, change challenges, change forces humility, change teaches...

J.D.Meier announced it - it's here - Application Architecture Guide 2.0 Final Release ! Very kind of the team to acknowledge me when I really have only made some contribution towards version 1 years ago! Hopefully in my next job I will be able to create...

I'll be speaking at this Cloud Computing conference in Sydney on 3rd December. Hope to see you there!

The dilemma I always have at PDC and the Sydney Film Festival is - there are so many wonderful concurrent sessions - which one do I go to? this year - I think I've worked out a great formula that suits me - I'm sticking to the Advanced or Expert sessions...

This note came in from HR, looks interesting - hope to see some of you there! Venue: Microsoft office, 1 Epping Road, North Ryde, 2113 Date: 3rd October, 2008 Time: 1:00pm – 3:30pm (Seated by 12:50pm) Agenda: 12:20pm -12:50pm – Guest arrival and registrations...

Daniel Brown dropped me a note to let me know this is happening in Adelaide: When & Where: · Where: Excom Education, 191 Pulteney Street, Adelaide ( map ) · When: 9 th of October (09/10/2008) @ 5:30PM Agenda: The agenda for this month’s evenings activities...

https://sessions.microsoftpdc.com/public/sessions.aspx great sessions, great speakers lineup - why on earth did I give my complimentary PDC pass to Michael ?

From the TechEd Speaker portal: GEN003 Women in Technology Luncheon 03/09/2008 13:15-14:15 Bayside Terrace ARC203 Understanding Software-Plus-Services: A Perspective 01/09/2008 14:15-15:30 NZ Room 2, SkyCity ARC203 Understanding Software-Plus-Services...

Marcus from Stefan's team blogs about this new research note from Merrill Lynch: "by 2011 the volume of cloud computing market opportunity would amount to $160bn, including $95bn in business and productivity apps (email, office, CRM, etc) and $65bn in...

In the last 12 months, I did a lot more business planning and management than creating architectural IP. I learnt many new things from my team, and I thank them for their patience and support - such a previlege to work with this team of extremely talented...

So, "it's the end of the enterprise as we know it", there is "consumerisation of IT" that we need to figure out how to deal with. The use of some sort of cloud service is inevitable. One thing for sure is that some sort of cloud integration services will...

Stacey blogged about the 10 Reasons Enterprise Aren't Ready to Trust the Cloud . Immediately, the conservative enterprise architect in me couldn't have agreed more. I then picked the brains of my esteemed architect colleagues Nigel and Greg , and it sounds...

ok, here's to FY09, wish me luck - my new financial year resolution is to once again blog regularly, documenting my learnings on this journey...

FITT is running the IWD luncheon again - but sadly we missed out - as it was a booked out event way in advance - I think we'll need to lobby for a bigger venue in the future... in any case, a bunch of us got together for lunch today to celebrate - Bronwen...

I feel like a luddite to admit this - but I've only just registered on Facebook today! Despite the various invitations from friends - Gavin's even thrown a photo of me from Spain in there - I've resisted because: I'm a working mother of 2 toddlers - I...

I know, in this web 2.0 age, books seem to be incredibly old fashioned! I must admit I succumb to wikipaedia a lot more nowadays than the good old library... but every now and then, I get a gem! Nick has already picked up one recent addition - this is...

To get a peek into what current R&D are happening around the online geo-information area, here is the list of research topics by the 10 Virtual Earth research award receipients : Techniques for Rendering Effective Tourist Maps Semantic Enrichment...

RIA brings about many benefits over the traditional simple web applications - richer user interface/experience, better responsiveness through asynchronous client-server communication, network efficiency, etc, it is no wonder RIA is getting so much interest...

Simon tells me that the Architecture Journal Reader is coming soon: In his own words: "At the Strategic Architect Forum (SAF) this week we released the new Architecture Journal Reader . Based on the WPF NewsReader SDK, the Architecture Journal Reader...

Bronwen, Catherine and the team have been working on this exciting project - GeekGirlBlogs . Check it out! and let us know if you're also a GeekGirlBlogger - I'm sure Bronwen would be happy to add you onto the list.

Jorke is our newest member of the team, and is our deeply technical 'hosting geek'. He's been busy with preparing for this training course - all about Windows Server 2008 and IIS for hosting . Get in early - seats are limited!

I popped into the CRCSI conference on Monday. There were some very interesting Global Big Issues being presented and discussed. What opened my eyes and got me excited was this intersting set of observation, as well as the view into the future presented...

Bronwen is doing some cool stuff for the Live developer community! Go and be part of it!

Darryl Chantry is one of my all time favourite story tellers, just so happens he's also a great software architect from Kiwi land!!