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It's been a year since the last International Women's Day luncheon where Sen Helen Coonan spoke . Unfortunately, with the mad workload recently, I didn't get around to organising a table for the female architects that I know and work with this year. To...

For those of you that couldn't make to the CardSpace hands on lab , or the partner Readiness events , here you'll find the .NET framework 3.0 virtual labs - including CardSpace, Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Communication Foundation, and Windows...

Wow - this is the experience I want to have when I am browsing a realestate website looking for a house to buy.

Ever so often, people would be asking me for case studies/lessons learnt from a 'real world SOA' project. So it's probably always timely to remind everyone of this series of videos that Ron Jacobs recorded last year, that captured the live interviews...

Now that Frank is no longer my direct manager, I can only pick his brain over lunch hours. I asked him about his lessons learnt on being an award winning people manager one lunch time this week. His response was: "invest in the people, make sure they...

I've been very priveleged to have a number of great mentors in my life. One of them is Len Bass . We caught up over lunch today, and we were talking about 'building a career'. As usual, Len had some great wisdom to share with me. He said: "You basically...

Frances Allen is such an inspiration!

This long awaited meeting request arrived my inbox just now... When: Thursday, 1 March 2007 6:00 PM-8:00 PM (GMT+10:00) Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney. Where: Microsoft, 1 Epping Road, North Ryde *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Successfully delivering and utilizing...

traffic was so bad across the Sydney Harbour Bridge this morning - I think everyone was slowing down to get a glimpse of the Queen Mary II ! Patrick got up early with Kai to drive out to the Sydney Harbour to see QM2 arriving this morning at 6:30am, and...

with the buzz of Web 2.0, and the ever increasing volume of user requests online, building highly scalable web infrastructure and software architecture is of paramount importance. The challenge of building scalable software is nothing new, and in fact...

Finally, I can find out in an instant where to get good Italian food near my husband's office.

Bernard is running a cool show - I'm definitely going to this, and see if Kevin has the latest updates on Jim Gray . Microsoft Research: Driving Innovation for 15 Years In 1991, Bill Gates decided to make a bold investment for the long-term future of...

I've had a couple of weeks leave, staying home looking after the kids, doing home improvement, cooking, cleaning, shopping, things like that. Patrick is very glad that I'm back to work. He is not only glad that I'm back to earning my own income, but doubly...

This email arrived my inbox today - it's from my cousin - the famous Astro Nerd from Nerds FC Season I . "Its that time again where I need your support. Nerds FC will be playing once again against some hectic opponents. If you are able to come, I would...

yes, finally got around to this... Technorati Profile

Following on the CardSpace hands on lab that Nigel Watling helped me with last year , quite a few of you out there have been asking me for pointers to additional .NET 3 and CardSpace training. Here is one that Sharmilla has put together - to happen in...

Following on from my blog post on " Where are the Women Architects ?", I've received some interesting interview requests - but more about that later... In the meantime, Jennifer just sent this through - Channel 9 has launched a show that is 100% dedicated...

Lots of people have been talking about iPhone this morning - including Shane . My immediate reaction was that wow - now here is a worthy competition in the mobile phone/PDA market, with excellent user experience design. And then, I remembered why I gave...

As per my previous blog , Nigel presented 'Software As A Service' to the Sydney Architet Council gathering recently. Here is my 'raw' notes from the roundtable discussions: from the enterprise architecture perspective, the central IT can function as a...

I attended the end of year AIIA briefing last week. While I don't normally attend such a ICT industry business gathering, I couldn't resist this time, as the speaker lineup was just too good to miss: Roger Allen, Executive Director, Allen & Buckeridge...

Nigel is leading the presentation and conversation focusing on the topic of Software As A Service at the council gathering tomorrow. Looking forward to an exciting open discussion around this hot topic... Here is the presentation description: "TOPIC:...

Looks like some of my colleagues have also been blogging about SAF. Here is a great one from Simon Guest - Nathan Shedroff on Achieving Value through Great Design .

Yes, for my indulgence in some of my absolute most fav yummy pacific northwest seafood, I'm paying for it in bucketloads now... got a dose of bad seafood poisoning! Luckily, thanks to my extended Microsoft family - Arvindra and Beat - they looked after...

Yet another architect at SAF commented on this today... "Where are the women architects? geez this is a very 'blokey' event!" Totally right, I've not yet spoken to a single female since I arrived at SAF. Do you have a theory? I've no idea... I must admit...

A customer architect asked me why do I blog? I was a little caught by surprise, but a few things came to mind: 1. connection with the people I interact with, whether it's work collagues, customers, past colleagues, friends, and acquaintances that I meet...