After 6 amazing weeks of summer holiday it feels good to be back at the keyboard. I’m half way through with my first week at Capgemini in Trondheim, and so far it’s been great. The first week haven’t been to stressful. I’ve spent the week learning how things work around Capgemini, and about the various internal systems I have to use on an everyday basis. As for technical work my first task has been to look into a client certificate/forms authentication combination for a web application.

Everyone at Cap is running standard disk images on their computers and Vista won’t be available until sometime in 2008 (at least that’s what I’ve heard so far). So, at the moment I’m not running Vista on any of my development machines (work or personal laptop). After running Vista fulltime since November 2006 it’s a bit dull to go back to XP. So I guess I’ll have to install one of dose hard drive bays you can put into the CD-ROM to run Vista off it.

I assume most of you guys have downloaded the Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 release? I’m currently playing with it preparing for my VS2008 and LINQ presentations at MSDN Live later this month. I feel really lucky with the topics I get a chance to talk about on this round of MSDN Live. Playing with VS2008 and LINQ is plain fun, and there is tons of great content available. Creating content for the presentations shouldn’t bee to hard.

I forgot the charger for my HP laptop back home in Lakselv, but as soon as I get it back I’ll finish my post on using protocol handlers as a way to do light weight integration between applications. The sample application is more or less done, but I need to add some word explaining why this might be a cool thing to do.