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Nigel Watson, an Architect Advisor at Microsoft, based in Melbourne Australia.

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Architecture Forum site is now back up and running.
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! Read More...
Software + Services Architecture Round-tables
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 Read More...
Slides from last week's Architecture Council - Glenn Smyth, Chief Architect Adelaide Bank
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 decisions Read More...
Only a few days to go before the Australian Architecture Forum - its not too late to register!
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 Read More...
Australian Architecture Forum - register now!
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; Read More...
ASWEC2007: Unloading can be cathartic!
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 Read More...
Australian Architecture Forum: Raison d'etre...
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 Read More...
Web vNext ARCast, and... what is Web vNext again?
While I'm on the subject of ARCasts, Check out Ron's audio ARCast ( part1 , part2 ) of the Tech.Ed 2006 Web vNext Panel with Rowan Simpson (of tradme.co.nz fame), George Moore (GM of Windows Live), and Scott Guthrie (GM for .NET). Great discussion, captured Read More...
CommSee architectural v-ARCast up on SkyScrapr
While Ron was visiting Australia in August, he spent a day chatting - on video - with the Commonwealth Bank's CommSee architecture team. I'm pleased to report that these conversations are now available online at SkyScrapr as an ARCast . It's well worth Read More...
Next IASA Melbourne meeting (Thur Aug 31st) An Evening with Ron Jacobs
The next IASA Melbourne meeting is a combined event with the Victoria.NET Dev SIG (formerly VDNUG). We're taking the opportunity to get Ron down to Melbourne to redeliver one of his Tech.Ed sessions, which looks at architecture from the perspective of Read More...
...and the mystery guest at on the Aus Tech.Ed Web vNext panel is...
None other than Ben Barren , Web vNext entrepreneur , and a frequent speaker and commentator on driving Web vNext in Oz. I went along to his (and John Allsop's ) talk at the WebDirections seminar in Melbourne last week. It was a great session, and it's Read More...
Say! What a lot of phish there are!
With apologies to Theodor Geisel ... Looks as if IE7's anti-phishing filter thinks MS Corp's Outlook Web Access entry point is suss... But seriously, I'm copping 2-3 phish attempts a week in my junk mail folder, and I'm happy that IE7 now has this functionality Read More...
Web vNext panel discussion at Tech.Ed - questions, topics?
One of the sessions in the architecture tracks at Tech.Ed Aus and NZ is a panel discussion tackling the architectural implications of Web 2.0. Hosted by Ron Jacobs, the panels will run in New Zealand and Australia, with panelists George Moore (GM for Read More...
...but is there life after Tech.Ed?
Of course there is! For a start, Nigel Watling (CardSpace Technology Evangelist from MS Corp) is down in Melbourne presenting a one-day hands-on developer lab on CardSpace on Tue August 29th. This is the same session that he's presenting in Sydney the Read More...
Nigel = 1..n(busy) where n=mucho
I've been absolutely hammered over the last few weeks, which has meant I've kind of been neglecting my blog. One of the things that is keeping me up at night is Tech.Ed, where I'm coordinating the Architecture track . For me, one of the best parts (apart Read More...
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