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MVP Awarded
07 July 05 05:18 PM | madsn | 13 comment(s)

Last friday I got the email. I have been given the honor of the Most Valuable Professional title/award/membership. Today my profile was made public on the MVP site, and I attended the MVP lunch where MVP program manager Sean O'Driscoll gave a good overview...

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Blogmap in 15 seconds
07 February 05 10:53 AM | madsn | 2 comment(s)

Through Mark Bower : I just placed my blog on the Map(Point). Very cool, even though MapPoint seems to have a funny look at Oslo (It's really not "Frognersætra", but "Frognerseteren", and it's not located right next to Skillebekk). Check out Chandu Thota...

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Contribute to the earthquake victims
29 December 04 12:22 AM | madsn | with no comments

You cannot have missed it. The earthquake/tsunami have caused so much pain for locals and tourists in the area. Contribute to your favorite help-organisation, they're all working hard at the moment to provide as much aid as possible. Norwegians can contribute...

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George W. blocks the world
31 October 04 07:32 PM | madsn | 15 comment(s)

Did you know that George W. Bush actually blocks access to his homepage http://www.georgewbush.com for a lot of european and asian based web users? Well he does, according to the danish ComputerWorld webusers from Norway, Great Britain, Austria and Taipei...

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Navision Axapta COM Connector
02 June 04 10:19 PM | madsn | 5 comment(s)

I've been working quite a lot with integration between Sharepoint and the Navision Axapta COM Connector lately and have guts to spill. There is so much guts though, that I want to do a tiny poll before embarking on this article. Any interest for the AxaptaCOMConnector...

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Developers are Athletes, Architects are Coaches/Managers/Trainers
02 June 04 04:06 PM | madsn | with no comments

Kris Syverstad writes about how developers resemble athletes . Reading his post I felt almost as Kris had been reading my final term paper in methodology from last spring where I used the exact same analogy. I wrote about developers as athletes in the...

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TechEd Europe 2004 I'll be there
31 May 04 04:04 PM | madsn | 2 comment(s)

Then I finally got to go. And this time I actually have a valid ticket for the sessions! Thanks to Patrice for the logo :-) I am also attending the BizTalk pre-conference session, which sounds cool. Also, I have no idea where I am going to book a hotelroom...

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Employed
06 January 04 01:21 PM | madsn | 3 comment(s)

Christmas is completed, totally dominated by jobinterviews ever since I returned from the US on december 15th. I finally chose norwegian consulting firm Objectware as my new, and first real employer. Objectware is a long time Microsoft Gold Certified...

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Visit on campus
14 November 03 06:43 AM | madsn | with no comments

In my attempt to get my red pill i went to building 19 at the Microsoft campus today. I was on my way to meet up with Robert Wlodarczyk, when he suggested stopping by recruitment to see what happened. I went into the reception and was gracefully discharged...

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Finishing up OOPSLA
31 October 03 03:20 AM | madsn | with no comments

OOPSLA '03 was concluded for my part today with a panel discussion on "Application Servers - One size fits all...or not". Microsoft, Oracle, Sun and IBM was represented, but the questions did not lead to any real substance. Microsofts Technical Evangelist...

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