Yet again the world proofs to me that it is small. Sitting here at 35000 feet I meet someone I know. It is the smartest non-MS SOA guys I've met Clemens Vasters . We've had the pleasure of hosting two events in Iceland in which he has been a speaker....

I've just spent 10 days in Redmond and on my way back. Since I have couple of meetings in Copenhagen then I'm flying SAS directly from Seattle to Copenhagen. The really cool thing about this flight is that they have wireless internet connection onboard...

Tom Rizzo has announced that SQL 2000 SP4 and Reporting Service SP2 is accepting nominations . I highly recommend you get yourself nominated and try out the stuff in the service packs. You might even see some new features...

I did somehow manage to pass the web developer exam. I guess I was good at guessing the right answers, because there were a bunch of stuff I really did not know anything about. I don't know how many questions I got about the PAGE directive and caching...

Joe Stagner a fellow Developer Technical Evangelist is doing a series of webcasts on security for developers. I highly recommend that you take a look. For further information you can take a look at: http://www.microsoft.com/seminar/events/series/digitalblackbelt...

Somehow I managed to get 840 points in my (70-320) Developing XML Web Services and Server Components with Microsoft Visual C# and the Microsoft .NET Framework exam. Again they asked bunch of questions from ADO.NET, which I feel should be in it's own test...

Yesterday I finally went ahead and took an MCP test. I haven't taken MCP tests for 10 years. I took all the tests required for MCSD (Microsoft Certified Solution Developer) ten years ago, but since these tests were based on C++ and Win32, then they all...

I stumbled accross a video interview on TheServerSide with my old boss and good friend Jason Carlson who is the Product Unit Manager for SQL Server Reporting Services. He talks about the success of Reporting Services and what is in store for us in the...

We were lucky enough to get Beat Schwegler from the Microsoft Corporation EMEA Architecture team to do a 2 day workshop on Web Services. Here are the slides from the workshop. For those of you who don't read Icelandic...don't worry - everything is in...