Hi all

A couple of days ago, I gave my very first presentation outside Denmark. The Swedish BizTalk User Group had invited me to speak about transactions in orchestrations, and I happily accepted

I have given lots of presentations, both for customers and for the Danish BizTalk User Group and the Aalborg .NET User Group.

This one was different, though, since this time I was doing a focused technical presentation and someone even had to pay money to get me there. Not that I was paid, but they ended up paying maybe 1000 dollars in travel expenses and hotel.

It went well, I think…

I posted on my technical blog at http://blog.eliasen.dk/2010/11/20/SlidesAndCodeFromPresentation.aspx where I provided the slides and source code from my demo.

Thanks.

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eliasen

Hi all

So I spent Wednesday and Thursday in this week in Sweden, which was a strange experience.

First of all, even though our languages are actually quite similar, I don’t understand a single word.

Secondly, even though Sweden are bragging that they are the country in the world where the most people have the fastest broadband internet connections (or something like that) they still have a very primitive way to handle train passengers that have bought a 10-ticket-strip. You need to go to an employee and get a manual stamp on the piece of paper.

And finally, a weird experience was when I got out of the airport in Stockholm and needed a cab to take me to my hotel. Funny thing was that there were cabs in 5 lines and the cab drivers from all the front row cabs and even some of the cabs in the second row were all shouting to make me choose that particular cab. I hate that – several people wanting me to choose them and having to reject some of them. And I wonder why on earth the cab drivers from the cabs in the second row were also shouting. I mean… their cabs couldn’t even get out! In Denmark, if you try to get in a cab that is not the cab that was first on the scene, the cab driver will tell you to go to the cab that was first on the scene. They make sure internally that cabs get customers in the same order the cabs arrived in.

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eliasen