I met Dr Patrick Chan , Head of Emerging Technologies, IDC Asia Pacific over lunch today. It was part of a roundtable discussion hosted by IDC, with participants from the architect, senior manager community from the various major platform vendors. ...

I’ve been on leave for the last fortnight, catching up with lots of family, and attending the Sydney Film Festival ! There are lots of interesting new things in my inbox now, so will be chatting about them soon… And hey blogging from Word 2007 is...

I enjoyed meeting and chatting to 20 or so enterprise developers/architects/business analysts and managers last night at the 'Enterprise Software Development' Special Interest Group of ACS NSW Chapter. I promised to put my presentation up on my blog...

Thanks to Frank for the reminder - I'm actually on annual leave this fortnight, but I am scheduled to do a NSW Chapter Enterprise Solutions Development Special Interest Group presentation this coming Thursday evening - I will discuss how an organization...

I've been using Office 2007 Beta 2 for a week now, and I'm absolutely hooked on Powerpoint2007 SmartArt. With this cool new feature, basically, you can type in the list of bullets on your slide (as usual), and then through a couple of button clicks (insert...

Today I had the privilege to meet Niall McDonnell - Lead Software Development Engineer for Virtual Earth Platform , Niall was just the sort of guy I expected a Lead Engineer to be like - soft spoken, unassuming, but with lots of substance! and boy did...

Passport was designed to solve two problems: Identity Provider for MSN: for this pupose, Passport has proven to be useful, catering for 250M+ users and 1 billion logons per day Identity Provider for the Internet: unsuccessful The lessons learnt...