I’ll be reviewing a book about BizTalk

by Administrator 24. august 2011 00:25

Hi all

I was contacted by Packt Publishing asking me if I’d do a review of the Microsoft BizTalk 2010: Line of Business Systems Integration book.

I have the PDF and the printed version should arrive any day now. Once I’ve read it I’ll post a review of it on my technical blog at http://blogs.eliasen.dk/technical/

BTW, you can find a sample chapter of the book at http://www.packtpub.com/sites/default/files/1902-chapter-9-microsoft-dynamics-ax.pdf?utm_source=packtpub&utm_medium=free&utm_campaign=pdf

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eliasen

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The next DBUG meeting

by Administrator 23. august 2011 23:34

Hi all

Just a quick note to let you all know that the next meeting in the Danish BizTalk User Group (DBUG) will be on September 21’st. I won’t be speaking for a change, so do come around Smile

You can find the invitation at http://www.dbug.dk/files/biztalk%20brugergruppe%20september%202011.pdf

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Proof of DHL relay run

by Administrator 22. august 2011 21:04

Hi all

Turns out that I was caught on camera a couple of times during the run. See the pictures here: http://spotted.stiften.dk/gallerier/dhl-stafetten-2011-torsdag-loeberene#405286 and here: http://spotted.stiften.dk/gallerier/dhl-stafetten-2011-torsdag-loeberene#405288. I’m the one on the far right of the last picture Smile

The certificate for my team can be seen here: http://aarhusmotion.dk/diplomabg.aspx?Id=22080&type=team – ignore the team I am registered for – that is due to me being late for the switch. The 5km took me just below 24:30 minutes.

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DHL Stafet

by Administrator 20. august 2011 11:00

Hi all

The “DHL stafet” is a 5x5km relay race that is held annually here in Denmark in the largest cities.

My employer Logica always participates and this year we had about 20 teams as far as I recall. I participated last Thursday on one of these teams and despite the fact that my achilles tendon and knees are still bust I ran a pretty good race for someone who hasn’t been training seriously for 3 years.

The 5km took me 24:27 minutes and this is actually a lot faster than I had thought I could. The official time, unfortunately, is 25:55 because I was late for the switch so my time started almost 1,5 minutes before I received the depeche.

Anyway, my team was the fast mix-team from Logica, so that’s great! Smile And actually we came in as number 31 out of 1214 teams. Had I been on time for the switcch we would have come in around place number 20 instead of 31.

Next year I will really try to be on time! Smile

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Cross trainer

by Administrator 12. august 2011 17:12

Bummer! It seems I have busted my knees so yesterday I ended up pending 45 minutes on a cross trainer instead of the treadmill.

Those cross trainers bug me – I can’t help thinking that I look really silly when I use them.

And it is quite impossible for me to keep up the pace if I need to wipe sweat of my forehead using a towel.

And finally, the calorie consumption isn’t anywhere near a good run…

I really hope my knees are back in shape soon…

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eliasen

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Book review: 100 Essential Things You Didn’t Know You Didn’t Know

by Administrator 9. august 2011 21:17

Hi all

I have previously written part 1 of a book review at http://blogs.eliasen.dk/Personal/post/2011/07/10/100-Essential-things-you-didn’t-know-you-didn’t-know-part-I.aspx.

I have now finished the book and thought I’d write my thoughts about the book here.

First of all, I am not sure the 100 things are actually essential… some of them are more “Nice to know” than “Need to know”, but hey, that’s subjective, right?

Anyway, some of the things I didn’t know I didn’t know require some more-than-basic math skills to understand, which at times was rather hard to follow; I mean… for a book that is supposed to be bedtime reading, I think it requires too much. Had it been a book where you are supposed to sit and use time to study calculations, that would have been fine.

Out of the 100 things, I found these to be the most interesting;

  • Why pylons consists of triangles
  • Why it is easier to walk on a tightrope using a long pole with heavy buckets at the ends
  • Why Barbados had to score an own goal against Grenada to move on in a tournament
  • Some strategies for dividing something equally
  • Why no one has ever travelled in time
  • A new proof of Pythagoras’s theorem
  • How Calculus once saved the life of a mathematician
  • A lot of information about how to cut a diamond
  • There are no uninteresting numbers
  • Some different ways to score sports events that are more or less silly
  • Why A4/A3/A2 and so on paper formats are SO much cleverer than the US letter format and so on

It’s been a good read, but without some interest in mathematics and physics, you won’t like it.

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eliasen

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Running once again

by Administrator 7. august 2011 13:50

Hi all

My achilles tendon is still aching and my knees have begun to hurt as well… But I am still running regularly (3 times a week) and today I made it to 9.58km in 50 minutes. Definitely not as fast as I used to be, but it feels great to be running again.

I am only running on a thread mill in order to try to not be mean to the achilles tendon. It can get boring to run on a thread mill, but it is better than nothing. I have bought a music system so I can listen to music while I am running and I am using my Garmin Forerunner 305 to measure pulse while running.

I have also started using Endomondo – you can find my account at http://www.endomondo.com/profile/390235.

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eliasen

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Jan Eliasen is 37 years old, divorced and has 2 sons, Andreas (July 2004) and Emil (July 2006).

Jan has a masters degree in computer science and is currently employed at CGI Denmark as an IT architect.

Jan is a 6 times Microsoft MVP in BizTalk Server, although not currently and MVP.

Jan is proud to be one of the authors of the BizTalk Server 2010 Unleashed book.

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