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

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Ron Jacobs Architecture Council slides
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 UX and Read More...
Australian Architecture Forum - only nine (9!) days to go
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) Read More...
Decks from Dr Bohdan Szymanik's Melbourne Architecture Council Presentation
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 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...
SaaS presentation to the Sydney .NET User's Group
Thanks very much to Adam and Tim for inviting me to present at the Sydney .NET Users Group on Software as a Service (SaaS) on Wednesday night. It was great to see so many people there, and I thought that the discussion during and after the session was 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...
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