Showing posts with label Other. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Other. Show all posts

Monday, August 31, 2009

Puzzlepart - Exciting Times Ahead

Today was my last day as an MSFT FTE, tomorrow I'm co-founder and partner at Puzzlepart - as the second person in the company after my old colleague Mads Nissen.

At Puzzlepart we will continue our joint SharePoint adventure. Together we have delivered quite a few SharePoint and MSCRM solutions, such as this case study shown by Steve Ballmer himself at the 2005 business summit. As you can see from the video, we focus on delivering business value - and we're working on our design skills.

As they say at my old employer: I'm super excited to be here! And to my now former colleagues at MCS: Thank you for all that you do!

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

NNUG Oslo 25. November

I'll be giving a session on service+schema compatibility & composability at NNUG Oslo on 25. November: details here.


Among the topics I will cover is the "Flexible/Strict" strategy.

[UPDATE 12-DEC-2008] Download slidedeck here.

Tuesday, July 01, 2008

Technology & Restaurants in Trondheim, Norway

It is vacation time in Norway, so you won't see many posts on my blog in July. So this summer's post is a bit on the light side: restaurants in Trondheim that me and two colleagues have dined in this year while on a project there.

The ranking is based on the quality of the meals (food+wine), then the service and atmosphere:

1. Credo: the best overall experience, really good wine list, always full, lively place.
2. Fem Bord: maybe the best food, the smallest place of the top three.
3. Emilies: one of the top three, close race with Fem Bord, a bit too quiet.
4. Palmehaven: the best main courses in Trondheim, the best service, too few guests.
5. Rica Nidelven: based on local food, too few guests, impersonal waiters.
6. Chablis: a bit to formal/bizniz, but the food is good, quite good wine list.
7. To rom og kjøkken: one of the top ten, few tables, combination of bar and restaurant.
Non ranked, not quite up there: Jonathan, Dråpen

What has this got to do with technology? Trondheim is the technology capital of Norway, with my univerity
NTNU, and both Fast, Google and Yahoo has research centers there. So, if you like e.g. Google's Marissa Mayer ever goes to Trondheim, you know where to dine.

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Tagged - Notebook Fetish

My friend Anders Norås tagged me on how I take notes. I have to admit that I like OneNote when I do research and information gathering, especially the free form text entry and the nice screen capture tool (Windows button + S) that also logs where you found the info.


However, whenever I interact with customers, e.g. taking meeting notes, doing SOA maturity interviews or capturing input from users; I have a standard blue, boring analogous A5 notebook and a pen, as sitting behind a laptop and typing away creates a barrier between me and the subjects.

Finally, I use my phone to enter an unsent text message should I happen to think of something ingeneously on my train commute. Which is very unlikely as it is only 14 minutes :)

Tag you're it: how do you enter notes:
Christian Weyer
Thomas Bruusgaard