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I guess a compilation of the 'Most' list would be appropriate to celebrate my 100th Blog Post! So, here it is: - Most commented blog: Buy versus Build - Most thumbs up on Techtalkblogs : Frank Arrigo's new Girl - Most controversial blog: The end of the...

As a mother with 2 young children who is also not all that into sport, I really don't care much for the various Sports scoreboard gadgets, nor do I have time for many of the games gadgets. There are however two gadgets from the Gallery that I absolutely...

via Bernard , this is a cool little thing that shows which countries I've visited. create your own visited countries map not much coverage in South America and Africa yet, must work on that one!

Finally, the long awaited indepth case studies and interviews of the various architects/developers/testers on the CommSee team . Find out from then directly how they designed and implemented service oriented architecture and great user experience for...

I finally met up with Yuhong in person today. We collaborated through John Grundy years ago, and produced an ASE2001 best paper on " Generation of Distributed System Test-beds from High-level Software Architecture Descriptions ". Half way through our...

Looks like I'll be presenting at this year's OZCHI conference . Especially excited since it's in my hometown this year. An extract from the conference program : thursday november 23 9.30 – 10.40 industry case studies: managing large organisations (1)...

I just completed the training course " Crucial Conversations " last week, and thoroughly enjoyed it! What did I learn? - Get Unstuck: how to spot the conversations that are keeping us from results, and get unstuck with not only changing the content, but...

I have been doing a fair bit of Identity MetaSystem and CardSpace conversations with many of our enterprise customers lately, and while most people are keen to understand the various business scenarios enabled by this powerful architecture, there is always...

I often get asked by the research community this question: "what are the hot topics and promising research possibilities in the area of software architecture?" From the perspective of a practicing software architect, these are three typical pains of enterprises...

I've had a long interest in semantic web , having a researcher background and all... but I must admit that the pragmatic software architect in me gives me a more comfortable, confident feeling of firm foundation when I look at Microformats ... Something...

following my neighrbour JeffA's footstep, after the upgrade of our Community Server , I thought I'd also upgrade the look and feel of my blog - do you like the new Paperclip - Summer look? That's how I feel! really looking forward to spending a nice long...

At the recent NZ TechEd , an audience member came up to me after my presentation and chatted about the current downsides of using Ajax. Ever since then, I've been meaning to compile a list of 'reality checks on Ajax'. Well, Dion has beat me to it, and...