Many of you know that, among the many loves of my life, beer, and more specifically good beer ranks pretty high up there. So this was a great weekend for me because it was almost all about beer, or Bier in the German tradition.

The first event was the 2008 Bockfest VIP Fund-raiser (postponed from late February due to snow) where they unveiled of the Rookwood Pottery and Christian Moerlein Brewery's second collaborative effort in Bier Stein making. This years offering depicts the legendary Emperor Frederick "Barbarossa" and a classic street scene from historic over-the-rhine neighborhood in Cincinnati.

The second event on Saturday was the Germania Society's fourth annual Stein Auction which is all about beer, steins and other brewery memorabilia. I have worked closely with George Hibbon to get the auction (which was also delayed due to the snow in February) to happen. The highlight of the auction was the sale of the first of the Barbarossa steins that had been donated to the auction. There also was an incredible wood carving from some unknown artist that had to be part of my collection.

Both are now part of my collection. See more pictures here

I would have never thought of myself as being more than 50% addicted, perhaps 20%. Sill not blogging that much.

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WOW! Twelve five-minute presentations in a row. Talk about buring it hard from both ends. I hope those that heard it learned a little, and if you are here, then perhaps you will try the next level, and download the examples!

Here is the sample database: . The instructions which I showed in the demo are included in the Help-Using document.

Enjoy!

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Here are the files from the hands on session Scott and I did on JSON and AJAX usage form Domino.:

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The Best Practices session Scott and I did went very well. Here are the updated slides:

As we said the code will be releasable when the ageements with IBM get finalized. Several of the techniques we used are available from other presentations.

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Here are the updated slides and examples from the Sunday 10:30 AM JumpStart:

Updated Slides: here

Demo Database: here

Evaluations forms are here

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Scott and I are again working together on both a Best Practices and Hand's on session. In addition I am doing a jumpstart session on LotusScript

• The Best Practices session is: A Look Under the Hood at a World-Class IBM Lotus Domino Web Application . We are showing off techniques we used to build a very fun project..
• The Hand's on session is: Implementing AJAX and JSON in IBM Lotus Domino Applications. We are very pleased with this session and think it may be better than what we have done in past years.
• My Jumpstart session is Introduction to IBM LotusScript

This year the Lotusphere Sessions database, from Ben Langhinrichs includes a new "Ask Questions" feature, that I am going to try out. To post questions go to these links:

• Qustions about BP203: A Look Under the Hood at a World-Class IBM Lotus Domino Web Application
• Qustions about HND104: Implementing AJAX and JSON in IBM Lotus Domino Applications
• Qustions about JMP202: Introduction to IBM LotusScript

How to see you in Orlando!