Len Bass of SEI and Bonnie John of CMU produced this paper on Usability and Architecture http://www.sei.cmu.edu/pub/documents/01.reports/pdf/01tr005.pdf It goes beyond assuming that User Experience (UX) is exclusively an issue to be dealt with at the...

My colleague Nils van Boxsel (who unfortunately does not yet blog – so I can’t do a track back to him) sent me this great link to today’s Australian IT article regarding online government services - that describes a similar challenge to my last post on...

This article from Sydney Morning Herald provides some great insight into why some large enterprise websites (eg. Online banking) fail in its mission.   expect to see a good body of ‘Online User Experience Design’ best practices/guidance to come out...

Courtesy of Bernard our intern , here is a video production of the Tech.Ed Meego family . Btw you can get your own Meego here . See you at TechEd!

My observation of my own blogging style – the more busy I am with doing various architecture design sessions for customers, speaking at events, etc, the more thoughts I want to blog about, but the less often I blog . However, if I watch what other good...

Go play with CardSpace in the sandbox – Now!

Robert Scoble’s recent post on Case for Research made me miss my past life as a researcher at the CSIRO , UNSW , SEI , and UTS ! I would love to be able to wonder the halls of Microsoft research and do podcasts of what Microsoft Researchers do – just...

The Internet Explorer 7 Readiness Toolkit is available here for anyone that is involved in the development, test, deployment or support of web sites, extensions, and/or applications to prepare for Internet Explorer 7. This Readiness Toolkit was previewed...

Patrick collects ‘old geeky things’ - calculators, computer bits, cameras, etc. He thinks it’s important to capture a piece of technology history so that when our kids are older, we can show them what was the ‘yester year of computing’. Amongst his...

I’m in charge. Michael Kleef asked me to ‘be on point’ for the ‘Ask The Experts’ session at TechEd Australia 2006. I’m going to do a couple of things differently this year… firstly – we’re going to have a more formalised way of kicking off the ‘Ask...

I am most impressed by one of my favourite colleagues at Microsoft Peter Ulm – he just sent me a meeting request direct in Outlook with embedded driving directions: “ Hi all, I've picked this day as it appears to be the free-est and it is also a...

Thanks for Craig McMurtry , here is a very comprehensive list of WCF management capabilities: Configuration Editor a rich set of performance counters for measuring every aspect of a generic services’ performance at the level of the service, its individual...

I spent the last two days at the Microsoft Australia FY07 Company Meeting at Star City Sydney, meeting a few more of the 600+ colleagues I have in Australia. It was the best Microsoft Company Meeting I’ve been to, and possibly the best company meeting...

Sonja – Miss American Beauty from the IT Screen Goddess Calendar project emailed me: “Hey howdy saw your blog if you REALLY do want to join a road show email me sonja@itgoddess.info - we organise road shows etc. across Australia. Our funds from sales...

I have been doing a couple of solution architecture reviews lately… and I came across yet another situation, where people are trying to build their own integration server. It’s unfortunately not the first time I’ve seen this common mistake! So here...

I want to be on this IT Screen Goddess Calendar . I wish I could be miss May - Lucy Liu lookalike in the Charlie's Angels poster. Anyway - failing in being a Calendar Goddess, I could always try out David Lempher's idea - going on a roadshow to speak...

Stefan just wrote to me: " On behalf of the organizing committee for the 1st Middleware for Service-oriented Computing workshop ( http://www.dedisys.org/mw4soc/ ) to be held with Middleware 2006 ( http://2006.middleware-conference.org/ ) in Melbourne...

Kevin just emailed me to announce the great news: " Hi Guys, It seems that my MVP status has been renewed for another year. Yay! I just wanted to pass on my thanks for your help (and marketing!) over the past year. Thanks heaps. I am stoked...

Kim is paying us a visit in Sydney on 3rd August - he'll be addressing the Sydney Architect Council, and hopefully we'll all have a very stimulating conversation about Identity Management on Web 2.0. For a recording of the last Sydney Architect Council...