New job: Principal Architect for Microsoft in Redmond

Posted by SondreB on April 1, 2010
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April Fool: It was fun participating in this years April Fools’ day, I hope nobody got hurt ;-). Thanks for all the congratulations and responses on Twitter and Messenger, and special thanks to Clemens Vasters for helping me out! Please enjoy the Geek and Poke cartoon at the bottom. ---- I’m thril... [More]

MSDN Live: Solution Architecture

Posted by SondreB on March 11, 2010
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At the next MSDN Live tour in Norway (in April), I’m doing a talk about Solution Architect and SharePoint 2010 for Developers. I would like to air some ideas I have for the Solution Architecture talk and hopefully get some feedback, perhaps some tips and hints that can improve my talk. What’s in a... [More]

Uncle Traveling Geek

Posted by sondreb on October 23, 2008
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In good spirit of the old and warm memories of Uncle Traveling Mack, I decided to write a post on how “Geek of the Year” packs his bag when he’s going to a conference. This time it’s the Professional Developer Conference (PDC08) in Los Angeles, USA. For once I decided to start packing a few days a... [More]

Microsoft MSDN-Guru

Posted by sondreb on May 1, 2007
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Look mom, I'm on TV! ... well, it's not that big, but I have been appointed as the monthly MSDN-Guru in April for the Norwegian MSDN web site. It's an honor for me to receive this nomination and I hope that some of the things I do can help to inspire other people. Microsoft published my profile in... [More]

The Gathering 2007: XNA Game Studio Express and Microsoft Robotics Studio

Posted by sondreb on March 27, 2007
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At this years The Gathering event I will be doing presentations and demos of Microsoft's two new cool products: XNA Game Studio Express and Microsoft Robotics Studio. Please stop by the Microsoft sessions in the Vikingship Skating hall for some cool demos and information. For the XNA GSE I'll be ... [More]

Tech-Ed: Developers

Posted by sondreb on October 18, 2006
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The biggest developer event of the year is approaching quickly, and as the event is getting close to selling out it's about time to register in case you haven't already done so. Hans Verbeeck posted on his blog a big list of some of the featured speakers. Make sure you see Anders Hejlsberg, Clemen... [More]