So, it’s been a bit quiet here lately. The natural cause of it is (in no particular order): A lot of work Spending quality time with my son Hacking on different kinds of technology bits (mainly pieces released at the PDC 2008) I’ve also tried to get a clear picture of my “blind spots” when [...]
I’m still very satisfied with the 120GB black Zune that I bought during my trip to the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference 2008 in the end of October. I found a way to use my own Norwegian credit card with the combination of the regional settings in Windows set to “USA” and a borrowed, real address [...]
Tonight I held a talk for the Norwegian .NET User Group Oslo on “What’s new in WCF 4.0”. The feedback was good and I think it went fairly well, especially considered the time I’ve had to prepare. There should probably have been more time allocated for demonstrations but to cover all the areas of improvements [...]
I’m currently preparing my talk for next Tuesday – “What’s new in WCF 4.0” and one of the features I want to talk about is the new WS-Discovery implementation. My only problem so far (until today) was that I couldn’t find the bits on the Virtual PC Image! I have been searching high and low [...]
Hmm, strange thing. Tried to sign in to Zune now, but I get an error message telling me that their server certificate is expired. If that is true – how unprofessional is that!? Not to mention the cost of it; for every hour people can’t log into their marked place they must be loosing tons [...]
On Tuesday the 25th November, I will be speaking at the NNUG Oslo meeting (hosted by NITH @ Galleriet, Oslo). My inital idea was to do an advanced extensibility talk, but after I attended the PDC in LA a couple of weeks ago I’ve changed my mind; the talk will be about the new features [...]
Ok, there was a time I was a RSS addict. I subscribed to 130’ish feeds – almost all of the related to development & architecture on the Microsoft platform. And all of a sudden I almost stopped reading any feeds at all. I believe it happened when I changed job and my old setup with [...]
[A.k.a. a work in progress] I’m sitting at gate 60, terminal 6 waiting for to board flight Continental CO16 heading for Newark / EWR in about an hour. This week has been crazy. Yes, really crazy. The program was so packed that I think I need at least a week to recover from both the [...]
After boarding our flight, CO38 heading for OSL we where told that there was a problem with the airplane. After waiting for about half an hour we were told that we had to change to another plane. So now we’re waiting outside the gate opposite to the gate we initially used – 113. Hopefully we’ll [...]
Next up is Don Box and Chris Anderson on Codename “Oslo”. Stay tuned – live blogging. Don Box – Distinguished Engineer Chris Anderson – Partner Architect A Lap Around The Azure Services Platform NO Powerpoints on stage! Only VS2010 – DEV 10! Standards: Uri’s, HTTP & XML My left arm is killing me – think [...]