Hi everyone

Yes, I know that my web page is in blue colours. Yes, I know my blog is in blue colours. Yes, I know my new BizTalk site is in blue colours. And yess, I know that my sons web page is in blue colours.

Yes, I like blue colours - quit whining!

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eliasen

Hi everyone.

I often realize, that I need some information, but can't really remember what the thing was called or where to get it.

So I decided to keep track of all the BizTalk stuff I find on my way at http://biztalk.eliasen.dk - which is now officially launched

Until now, not much information is there, but it will grow eventually.

Please, always also use the http://biztalk247.com website, since it really has a great collection of data... But feel free to use my new site, if you want

Hope this is useful for someone...

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eliasen

Hi everyone!

A couple of hours ago, I received a mail from Microsoft stating, that I have been awarded the MVP title!

I cannot begin to describe, how happy I am with this, since I made it a personal goal of mine a couple of years ago, to get the title back. I had it from July 2004 to July 2005, as some of you know.

I have even danced a little bit in our living room with my hands above my head, I must confess

I truly am happy to get the title back, since it means that Microsoft values my skills within the BizTalk field and that I must have helped a lot of people in the online communities.

To learn more about the MVP program, you can click here.

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eliasen

Hi everyone.

I have just upgraded the software on my blog to dasBlog version 1.9.7174.1.

I hope it has been smooth for you all, and if you notie any difficulties, please let me know.

Later, I will upgarde to dasBlog 2.0, which has been out forquite some time, but one step at the time, ight?

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eliasen

Hi everyone

Well, after 7 months at thy:data it seemed clear to me, that thy:data wasn't the place I wanted to work. Luckily at the same time, my old employer WM-data, that has changed its name to Logica, was searching for someone exactly with my skills. So it didn't take long for us to reach an agreement, and therefore, on the 1'st April, I am starting at Logica.

I am really looking forward to this - I will be going back to all my old colleagues, and my assignments will vary much, going from presale, writing quotes and promoting Logica to Microsoft to actual design and development of large integration projects, based on BizTalk, .NET3.0 and stuff.

Just 2 weeks to go...

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eliasen

Hi

Finally(!) I found time (Well, I should probably have done something else...) to review the design of my eliasen.dk homepage. It was awful, black and very much outdated.

The new design is better, updated, brighter, happier, implemented in .NET and much more

If you have comments about it, feel free to send them to me.

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eliasen

Hi

Well, the time has come for me to start running again.

11 years ago (when I was a soldier), I was quite the runner. My best times are 5 km in 17:30 and half a marathon (21,0975 km) in 1:32:46.

Since then, the weight has come up, as the amount of exercise went down .

Anyway, I have lost about 7kg in the last 3-4 months, and now was the time to start running again... and today was the first time.

A local fitness center had an offer for new members, that I have taken, so not only did I run today for the first time in a very long time, I also did it on a running machine. That took some getting used to! I managed to get the damn machine running, but then it stopped... then I started it again... and then it stopped. Probably next time I will get some help figuring out how to set the machine appropriately. The run itself went fairly well... around 7km. I will have to bring some music the next time, though.

It felt pretty weird, that I did some interval training, where the maximum speed (16 km/h) was just about the same speed as I ran for an hour without breaks in my earlier years (15 km/h) 

So, any goals, Jan? Yes, off course. I have a couple;

1. I would like my average time to run 1 km to be about 4 minutes.
2. At "Limfjordsløbet" (14 km) at the end of May (2008 ), I want to run faster than a friend of mine called Tom. Also, running faster than my old boss Anne would be nice . 4 minutes per kilometer would take care of both
3. At some point, I want to run a marathon. I will wait a couple of months to set any specific dates, times, etc. for this one, since I am really in no shape to guess right now

My legs are fine, I believe.. but perhaps tomorrow I will edit that part out of this blog post

The plan now is to run every Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday on average.. sometimes it will be Wednesday instead of Tuesday and so on.

Wish me luck...

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eliasen

So...

People sometimes ask, what is the difference between catching System.Exception and the General Exception in a Catch Exception shape in the orchestration designer in BizTalk.

Off course, an obvious difference is, that with the General Exception, you don't get an object with properties to investigate. But then it seems that the General Exception is useless... surely there is a point to it?

Well, I was curious about this myself, so I investigated a bit, and found this post. So basically, I think the catch of the general exception in BizTalk 2006 is a left over from BizTalk 2004. In BizTalk 2004 it made sense, since you actually have exceptions thrown at you that didn't derive from System.Exception. That is no longer possible in .NET 2.0 - they just haven't removed it from the designer - probably just to be backwards compatible.

That's it...

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eliasen

Hi everyone

Right now I am attending the Quicklearn BizTalk 2006 R2 Deep Dive course. I have taken their BizTalk 2004 deep dive and 2006 deep dive earlier, and now the time has come to the R2 one.

The last two times I was taught by John Callaway, and this time it is Alan Smith.

Basically, if you feel like taking a BizTalk course, that goes deeper than the normal courses, I highly recommend the quicklean course.

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eliasen

Hi

Inspired by my post some weeks ago about me mending a fuse on our car, I really have outdone myself this time.

First of all, I have changed a light bulbe on my parents car.

Secondly, I have exchanged the dripping faucet in our kitchen for a brand new none-dripping one. It was actually quite a mess, and after a couple of trial-and-errors, I got it working. So now we have a new faucet in the kitchen - it doesn't drip, and I made the switch!

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eliasen