Anna Liu's Weblog

Julian Wymer is a year 10 student from Picton High, spending the week here with us on his year 10 industry work experience, and is blogging about his time at Microsoft … here is what he had to say about Frank ! “ I met with the Technical Community Manager...

Software As A Service (SaaS) architecture guidance site on msdn just went live. Check it out! Fred and Gianpaolo have done a great job on this pertinent topic area…

The Ask The Experts evening is on Wednesday 23 rd Aug 6:30pm. This year – we’re going to shake things up a little – for starters, we’re going to kick off with 3 panels of Q&A, centred around the broad topic areas of “Developer”, “IT Pro” and “Security...

Via Shannon , I found out about this cool project at CSIRO – Air Hockey over a distance . I can’t wait till this is integrated with our Video Conferencing facilities…

Have you seen Nigel Watling – technical evangelist CardSpace on channel 9 ? His demos are really cool… Now here is your chance to meet the guru face to face right here in Sydney. Nigel has been very kind to have agreed to come to oz and nz TechEd...

I’ve been eagerly waiting for Jay Nanduri to visit Sydney ever since I spoke to him back in April about the recently released Windows Local Live/based on Virtual Earth technology. Frank has a nice blog describing what you can do with the new Australian...

We had a great architect council gathering last week, and were privileged to have Kim Cameron as the guest speaker. Kim covered off the ‘7 Laws of Identity’ and described to us how the industry as a whole is doing some profoundly innovative work for managing...

As developers, the support we receive online is at an unprecedented high… if we’re sick of plowing through thick volumes of online API reference material, we can opt to watch/listen to our favourite expert on a webcast, podcast imparting their wisdom...

I had the pleasure of meeting Paul Sestito of Hothouse yesterday. Paul is an Information Architect , and I had a great time picking Paul’s brain about how to architect ‘highly usable web applications’. Here are some of the wisdom from Paul: Start...

O’Reilly presented an interesting perspective on looking at Technology Trend by looking at book sales . I was little surprised at the ‘magnitude’ of the upward trend of C# adoption: “…the gains of C#, mentioned above, are even more striking than on...

PhotoSynth is creating lots of buzz everywhere – and it has reinvigorated the ‘scientist’ in me – great to see something out of Microsoft Research/Live Lab that not only is groundbreaking in terms of science, but has real and immediate potential in making...

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...