Jorke pinged me with details of an event he and Professional Geek Nick Hodge are running in Melbourne next Wednesday night, aimed at discussing Microsoft's relationship with Open Source, the Open Source community, and how we as an organisation are embracing...

Princess and Jess both swear this character has nothing to do with me, but I don't know if I should believe them... Meet Nigel and decide for yourself :)

Greg just announced that we're taking some antipodean liberties with the new CloudApp() competition that is running out of the US. If you've got a great idea for an Azure based application, we'd love to see you build this out and enter it into the new...

Oh yeah, that's right. I've been busy doing a bunch of things that haven't involved blogging. My bad. And I'm going to try to fix that by ... um... writing more blog entries. Some interesting things have happened in the last few months: The March 09 CTP...

Ron Jacobs was recently down in Australia for the Australian Architecture Forum as well as for an Architecture Council tour in Canberra, Sydney and Melbourne. At the councils, Ron delivered a talk on " The Perfect Pattern Storm: Where TDD meets...

Got back to my desk this afternoon to discover that my machine had been defaced by a certain colleague . Not content with something like seventeen hundred impressions of his likeness during the auREMIX keynote, he also managed to 'brand' my machine, albeit...

After many, many months of planning, and a couple of crazy days of actual doing, the Australian Architecture Forum event in Melbourne and Sydney is finally over. We had a great turnout in both cities, and judging from the conversations I had with various...

Minor glitch I think, but the AAF site was back online this morning. Register away - only a few days to go before we kick off in Melbourne!

Got a report this evening (thanks, Michael) that the Australian Architecture Forum site is down. It'll be back online asap, so hold tight if you are trying to register, and keep checking back in with us. In the meantime, check this little fella out...

We're in the final countdown to this year's Australian Architecture Forum , which I'm very proud of being a part of again this year. The AAF - in case you didn't know - is a unique conference designed to maximise opportunities for IT architects to (a...

Just got a note from Deeps that the TechEd 2008 site is now live. I'm looking after the Aussie and Kiwi Architecture tracks at TechEd again this year, so I've been thinking about the sort of sessions that we'll have in the track. The official Architecture...

Dave recently pinged me on this little meme that's going around that lets you inflict random factoids about yourself on unsuspecting visitors to your blog. I'm up for it. The ground rules are as follows: Each player starts with eight random facts/habits...

Taking my lead from Greg , I've finally gotten off my derrier and set up my skydrive account so I've got a convenient place to post Melbourne Architecture Council Decks. I've placed the deck from Dr Bohdan Szymanik's excellent session on KiwiBank on the...

Following all of the excitement around Silverlight 2 at MIX last week, last night we quietly released the source code for the Silverlight Retail Financial Services Demonstrator onto an unsuspecting interweb. This is a technology demonstrator that shows...

This week, I've been helping host my good friend and colleague Gianpaolo Carraro at a number of round-tables discussing Software + Services. We're half-way through; yesterday we conducted a session in Melbourne, and this morning we were in Canberra. As...

Last week Glenn Smyth, Chief Architect from the Adelaide Bank presented for us at the Melbourne Architect Council. Ostensibly, this was a talk about SOA, and how you can use capability modelling (ala Motion, now called MSBA ) to guide some of your...

The newly (and most likely temporarily) facially hirsuite Dave , the ever-analytical Graham and I spent an intimate evening a few weeks ago with 20 of our closest MOSSIG friends discussing " The Platform ". Tim has posted a podcast (and summary) of this...

It's hard to believe that it's only a few days until the inaugural Australian Architecture Forum . But don't despair, there's still time to register for the event if you haven't had a chance to yet. I've been looking at the agenda today, and it looks...

I couldn't resist it. Check out Frank's blog for more TechEd LOLCATs madness .

Just a reminder, for those of you that haven't seen an invitation yet - time is ticking away to get yourself registered for the Australian Architecture Forum , which runs in Sydney and Melbourne in a couple of weeks time. This is a truly unique event;...

I'm an Industry Track paper reviewer for the 2007 Australian Software Engineering Conference , being held in Melbourne in April this year. The venue is booked ... the track committees and chairs selected ... sponsors are being charmed ... and now all...

Chuck and I - in conjunction with Object Consulting and the ACS - are working on catalysing a community architecture event for next year, which he blogged about last week here and here . I wanted to chime in on some of the underlying thinking behind why...

That sure is one fine looking chunk of ice. And now, it can be yours .

I'm all in favour of innovation, but this is going too far.

How about sending a cake instead? Any guesses on who the IE team sent this (poison-free) cake to ?