Lots of friends and family aften ask me the question "what is it exactly that you do?" so I thought I'd share with you what I did for the day - Friday 26th May. 6:30-7:30am - logging in from home - clearing my inbox, 46 new items came through...

In a past blog , I talked about the importance of building 'quality' Web 2.0 applications, that is, addressing performance, scalability, security, reliability dimensions (in addition to usability and user experience). I want to focus on Security in...

Within minutes of hearing about its release from Frank Arrigo , I've already put it to good use - this is the direction I gave to Gordon Bell on how to get to NICTA to give a seminar on 'Computer Next Generations' . pretty cool eh? Now, who's got...

Patrick forwarded me this latest article from Cringely . Yet another observation that is consistent with my past posting on " the end of the Enterprise as we know it ". Mike Platt also has been visiting enterprises around the world, and his findings...

I was pleasantly surprised to find all these Australian news items on the international MSDN home page : Tech Talk Blogs Microsoft Australia has launched a community blogging portal for local Technology bloggers. Frank Arrigo has been...

I came across these new ways of borrowing and lending money online via Prosper and Zopa from John Devadoss's blog . It's the perfect example of my theory of " It's the end of the Enterprise as we know it ". Just a quick glance at any young 'User Experience...

This question came up again recently, so I thought I'd blog about it. In general, you should build interop solutions using Web Services wherever possible. This will give you a much cleaner integration architecture over time, across multiple projects...