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Fun on the fjord

Friday, June 27th, 2008

571With many Norwegians about to disappear on vacation for the next month it was time for Sommerfest at work. This involved a boat trip out on the fjord with a shrimp dinner. We stopped off on one of the islands for a few teams games. I think it’s fair to say that I did my part in ensuring that our team didn’t even make it in to the top half of the leader board! As we were heading back for shore there was a rumble of thunder overhead and the skies opened for what became a torrential downpour. Thankfully there was room for all undercover on the boat and as we pulled alongside the jetty the rain eased.

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Sankthansaften

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

568We were taking Emma out for a post-dinner trip down to see the ducks at Holmendamen when we realised that we’d had a flyer about the Lions Club putting on an event there this evening for Sankthansaften (St. Hans Eve or Midsummer’s Eve to you and I). It was just getting started when we arrived but there was already a good crowd of families and children for the horse rides, fishing for presents (involves a rod with a large bulldog clip and some men hidden behind a screen with boxes of toys), raffles, and of course the ice cream, waffles and pølser compulsory at any Norwegian gathering. We didn’t stay to see the lighting of the bonfire as Emma was overdue some sleep.

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O-festivalen

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

We’ve spent this weekend competing in the O-festivalen competition held at Siggerud on the outskirts of Oslo (not far from the IBM office). I went to Friday’s middle distance race on my own. It made a pleasant change not having to go off at one end or other of the start block and with minute intervals I was actually able to race round most of the course. It still took me just under 10 mins/k but with only a couple of minutes lost at the first control I was pleased with my run.

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Trondheim Toursim

Friday, June 20th, 2008

556It was a pleasant change when the trip I had anticipated to Stavanger this week was changed to Trondheim. I only had one night there and didn’t make it out the office until after eight but with almost round-the-clock sunlight there was no excuse not to have a nose around the city.

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Nordmarka Skogsmaraton

Saturday, June 14th, 2008

553This morning I lined up with 400+ other runners at Sognsvann for the Nordmarka Skogsmaraton (forest marathon). The rain had stopped and it was a pleasant temperature for running. The cheerleaders had gone on ahead to get a good spot. With next to no training under my belt I really had no idea how I was going to fare.

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Event sequencing qualifier and WebSphere ESB

Saturday, June 14th, 2008

As this has cropped up a couple of times recently and, as far as I’m aware, there is still no information in the public domain, I thought I’d stick my neck out and post about it. WebSphere Integration Developer allows you to add an event sequencing qualifier to components in a mediation module but the required runtime support for that qualifier only exists in WebSphere Process Server not in WebSphere ESB. In other words, for that qualifier to work, the mediation module must then be deployed to WebSphere Process Server.

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Mediation handler tooling broken

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

Despite being sidelined by the arrival of WebSphere ESB, there are still times when it is useful to use the mediation support in WebSphere’s service integration bus (of which more in another post). It’s obviously a while since I’ve done it though as apparently the mediation handler tooling in Rational Application Developer has been broken since v7 was released. I’m told that the fix will finally make it in to 7.0.0.7.

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Not last at orienteering!

Sunday, June 8th, 2008

We went to Nydalens’ Nydalten event today. This seemed to primarily be about the juniors’ Trimtex Cup match with some courses for adults sandwiched in the middle. Unfortunately this meant that, despite having put us at opposite ends of the start block, we had just 80 minutes for me to get round my 10k course and for Christine to do the 2k to the start. As Christine has kindly pointed out, I failed to do even my part in under 80 minutes and she consequently missed her run.

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