Soooo… here we are at the end of 2006 - one of the best years ever for my part:

• I got married to Elin - the best thing ever.
• Some really fun stuff to do at work (speaking at two conferences and some other presentations as highlights)
• Really cool trips - Borneo and Malaysia, Norway and some very nice places in Sweden
• Great euphonium-playing experiences: soloeuphonium with Gothenburg Brass Band during the spring, playing Music of the Spheres, playing euphonium with the Vasa Band who are really great guys and a good band
• A lot of new friends and relatives
• Starting this blog - had to put it in here of course :)

I can only hope for 2007 to be half this good and it still will be great!

A happy new year to you all!

So finally I got the opportunity to write some about a finding that has solved a major problem at my customer. A big thank you to Fredrik A and Micke for the help on this solution.

The problem is a probably a common one; we have some external web applications (that is: reachable from the Internet) that uses some functionality from internal web service. These internal web service in turn calls a database. The problem probably arise in many SOA solutions since credentials will flow from server to server.

Since the users of the external applications may be anonymous or logged into a portal we can’t send the user credentials all the way to the database.

So we thought that making the calls, to the internal web services, under system account would solve the problem. But then the double hop problem kicked in and the credentials will “disappear” when...

Just got hold of an recording of Loke Nyberg - a Swedish singer. This is really, really good - a new look on the “visa”-genre.

Here is his website lokeloke.se. If you get a possibility to get hold of a recording - go ahead. I guarantee some great moments. If you speak Swedish.

I am currently writing another solution to this and will post it here in a while but this is a great introduction to one of the more trickier IIS concepts I have been forced to handle.

http://blogs.msdn.com/nunos/archive/2004/03/12/88468.aspx

and here is some more to read on the subject http://drowningintechnicaldebt.com/blogs/shawnweisfeld/archive/2006/12/06/The-_1C20_Double-Hop_1D20_-Issue.aspx

Back from a relative short holiday-season I am almost alone in the office. Today will be spent in Word, fleshing out the solution from the day before Christmas. It will actually be quite fun (?) even though You can’t say that as a hacker.

Here is a nice little game for the season: http://www.linerider.com/

And here are some people with to much free time on their hands. But try the game first so You know what kind of effort has been done.

The last day of work before Christmas has contained some major breakthroughs in the project. I’ll post these on the blog when they are documented.

But also there has been time for some fun greetings from friends. Here the best one so far - with me dancing which is rather unique: http://www.elfyourself.com/?userid=0f3137be6d86ca0fc1a19e4G06122202

Merry Christmas!

Here are a picture from the caroling in the Old Town of Stockholm, which i’ve mentioned. It was quite dark but that how it is in Sweden these days, and yes - we don’t have any snow. To much work with the shovel so we just removed it once for all :) We’re all “dreaming of a green Christmas, just like the ones from 2006”

If you are like me and don’t approve of phone salesmen here’s one way to handle them… if you can hold you’re giggle.

Thanks Magnus for the tip Or you can register with NIX - but that is the boring Swedish way. :)

Yesterday we did the last Caroling-gig (you know; the Salvation Army playing with a pot for coin collection, as seen in many films) for this year with the Vasa Band. And that was something special I can tell you:

Apparently this has been going on for a while now but the Old Town in Stockholm is organising a advent-calender in the famous buildings around the Old Town. So for example door 13 was in the castle and the King and Queen went to do their little thing (mostly waving of hands). Yesterday we took part in the opening of door 19 and there were about 200 people there to see us. I was very surprised, but happily surprised.

The last Caroling for my part will be on Christmas eve when a traditional gig will take place in Södertälje with the Salvation Army there. Will be very nice to see all...

This is not to often but these courses are in fact totally free of charge AND a good introduction. I have taken them and had great use of them:

https://www.microsoftelearning.com/eLearning/offerDetail.aspx?offerPriceId=109340

By the way - here’s a good site for us who want to check in on .NET 3.0 - http://www.netfx3.com/

And finally - a real good presentation by my housegood Juwal Löwy: http://perseus.franklins.net/dnrtv/0039/PartA_media/PartA.wmv