Anna Liu's Weblog

New Blog at UNSW

MSDNArchive — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 03:10:50 GMT

My new work place at UNSW just provided me with a new blogging home http://blogs.unsw.edu.au/annaliu/ see you over there!

Change is Good - Change Challenges

MSDNArchive — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:21:46 GMT

I've resigned from Microsoft, and will be taking up an A/Professorship in Services Engineering at the University of NSW.

To quote one of my favourite blogger - James Hamilton - 'Change is good, change challenges, change forces humility, change teaches'. I am looking forward to the new challenge and learning opportunities this change brings me!

I start at UNSW next Monday - it looks like they've already put my new contact information up!

Application Architecture Guide 2.0 Final Release

MSDNArchive — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:00:48 GMT

J.D.Meier announced it - it's here - Application Architecture Guide 2.0 Final Release!

Very kind of the team to acknowledge me when I really have only made some contribution towards version 1 years ago!

Hopefully in my next job I will be able to create more IP again!

Thinking Strategically about Cloud Computing

MSDNArchive — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 02:42:53 GMT

I'll be speaking at this Cloud Computing conference in Sydney on 3rd December.

Hope to see you there!

My Dilemma at PDC and Sydney Film Festival

MSDNArchive — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 11:08:02 GMT

The dilemma I always have at PDC and the Sydney Film Festival is - there are so many wonderful concurrent sessions - which one do I go to?

this year - I think I've worked out a great formula that suits me - I'm sticking to the Advanced or Expert sessions. And so far, not a single dissapointment.

Short day tomorrow - but I'm really looking forward to:

8:30 - 9:45 - SQL Server Under the Hood, or, Live Services: Feedsync and Mesh Synchronization Services

10:15 - 11:30 - .NET Services: Messaging Services - Protococols, Protection, and How we Scale; or, Live Services: The Future of the Device Mesh; or, Under the Hood: Inside the Cloud Hosting Environment

noon - 1:15 - Live Services: Notifications, Awareness, and Communications; or, Designing your applications to scale; or, Windows 7: Writing your application to Shine on Modern Graphics Hardware

1:45 - 3:00 - .NET Services: Orchestrating Services and Business Processes Using Cloud-Based Workflow; or, Idenitity: Windows CardSpace "Geneva" Under the Hood

Luckily, for any of the sessions I miss out on seeing in person, I can watch them later here.

And for those of you that live in Australia, we're delivering a slice of the PDC action in Sydney (note - event is by invitation only - but I still have a handful of passes left - so ping me - first come first serve).

Microsoft R&D Job Opportunities

MSDNArchive — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:53:52 GMT

This note came in from HR, looks interesting - hope to see some of you there!

Venue: Microsoft office, 1 Epping Road, North Ryde, 2113

Date: 3rd October, 2008

Time: 1:00pm – 3:30pm (Seated by 12:50pm)

Agenda: 12:20pm -12:50pm – Guest arrival and registrations

1:00pm – 2:20pm – Presentation by Enwei Xie (China Research and Development opportunities)

2:20pm – 2:30pm – Q&A time.

2:30pm – 2:40pm - Break

2:40pm – 3:20pm – Presentation by Andrew Le Lievre (Australian Graduate opportunities)

3:20pm – 3:30pm – Q&A time.

3:00pm – event concludes.

When you arrive at Microsoft please make your way to the main desk behind the glass doors on ground floor. There you will be registered and directed to the presentation theatre.

The event will commence at 1:00pm, however we will stop registering at 12:50pm so please ensure you do not arrive after this time.

Please, feel free to invite your friends to register for this event as well. Thank you for your interest and we look forward to seeing you on the day.

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Travelling to Microsoft by bus

Visit http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http://www.131500.com.au%2FPages%2Ftimetables.html to see a time table. The best buses to catch are:

288 - Epping Station – departs Town Hall, Wynyard - City

292 - Marsfield – departs Town Hall, Wynyard – City

294 – Epping – Departs Town Hall, Wynyard – City 140 - Manly Wharf - Macquarie University - Epping

291 - Epping - Queen Victoria Building (via North Ryde)

Ask to get off at the Pittwater Rd stop on Epping road. This is across the road from Microsoft. (See map below)

Travelling to Microsoft by car

1 Epping Road North Ryde, just past the exit from the Lane Cove tunnel but it is better to access from the Delhi Rd side.

If you coming along Delhi road from the crematorium towards Epping Road, turn off at Julius Ave. This is a double ended horse shoe road. Follow it around to the Rivett Rd round about. As you go down Rivett road the Microsoft building is on the right just before you get to the end. There are plenty of guests parking on the uphill side, alternatively on the downhill side in the underground visitor parking.

From the City, cross the Harbour Bridge onto the Gore Hill Freeway. Keep following this onto Epping Road. At the Delhi Road cross over, turn right. Turn right at the first set of traffic lights (Julius Road) and right again off Delhi Road into Riverside Park. At the first round-about, turn right into Rivett Rd. At the end of the this road Microsoft located on the right.

Street Directories

Microsoft Sydney Office

See http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http://www.whereis.com.au for a detailed map

We look forward to seeing you there.

Regards,

HR - Recruitment

Microsoft Australia

ACS Adelaide IT Architecture Special Interest Group

MSDNArchive — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 09:35:45 GMT

Daniel Brown dropped me a note to let me know this is happening in Adelaide:

When & Where:

· Where: Excom Education, 191 Pulteney Street, Adelaide (map)

· When: 9^th of October (09/10/2008) @ 5:30PM

Agenda:

The agenda for this month’s evenings activities are:

·5:30pm - arrive, relax and network

·5:45pm - welcome and introductions - Daniel Brown

·6pm An Overview of the Defence Architecture Framework (DODAF) - Dennis Medlow

Architecture: Systems Engineering/Architecture

Dennis will present on the background to the DODAF, motivations for its use, DODAF layers and views. He will also provide samples of DODAF representation and cross-view relationships, architecture repositories and Australian use in the Defence Industry.

Participants will gain an understanding of how the DODAF is structured, why it is being introduced and the architectural views that are defined in it.

Who should attend? Team Leaders, Architects and anyone with an interest in how systems architecture can be captured and disseminated.

· 7:00PM – Storage Architecture - Fibre vs iSCSI – Peter Chenoweth and George Stone

Architecture: Enterprise/Infrastructure Architecture

Peter will present on best practices for assessing server hosts for Fibre Channel vs iSCSI consolidated storage platforms with examples and rationale for platform selection.

George will be presenting on managing and understanding the in’s and outs of storage performance.

Who should attend? People that are interested and focused on Storage Infrastructure and Information Architecture.

· 8:00PM – Meeting Close

·8:05pm - coffee

If you plan to attend the evening’s festivities, can you please ensure to reserve your place by clicking here .

PDC 2008 Sessions Sneak Peak

MSDNArchive — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:02:53 GMT

https://sessions.microsoftpdc.com/public/sessions.aspx

great sessions, great speakers lineup - why on earth did I give my complimentary PDC pass to Michael?

My Official Duties at TechEd Australia and New Zealand

MSDNArchive — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:41:35 GMT

From the TechEd Speaker portal:

GEN003
Women in Technology Luncheon
03/09/2008 13:15-14:15
Bayside Terrace

ARC203
Understanding Software-Plus-Services: A Perspective
01/09/2008 14:15-15:30
NZ Room 2, SkyCity

ARC203
Understanding Software-Plus-Services: A Perspective
03/09/2008 10:15-11:45
Parkside Auditorium

See you there!

Cloud Computing and Middleware Market Size

MSDNArchive — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 01:52:47 GMT

Marcus from Stefan's team blogs about this new research note from Merrill Lynch: "by 2011 the volume of cloud computing market opportunity would amount to $160bn, including $95bn in business and productivity apps (email, office, CRM, etc) and $65bn in online advertising".

Since I am someone that does not get a good sense of scale from a single absolute number, I looked up some studies on the enterprise application integration and middleware market size: from this sum up at ZDNet back in 2005: "Worldwise application integration, middleware and portal license revenue totalled $6.7 mil in 2004, a 5.8% increase from 2003 revenue of $6.3bn, according to Gartner".

mmm... interesting!