The Redbook finally became published!

Yeah!
Finally we made it to the public.
Phil, the best lead author of the Redbook, we ever could get came back and did it. He pulled all our work though the mills of IBM and the legal reviews and finally got it.
Thanks.

Tags: DWA Customizing, IBM, Lotus, Redbook

continue @ My Web Session Book

Hi Folks!
The Redbook time is over. So this blog will not really be continued. I start over with my first blogging experience back at My Web Session Book where I originally started to take my first shots. See you there. Have fun!

Tags: Blogging

Location: Muenster, Germany

Review of the week

Back home in Germany.
Back to family.
Back to business.
My "real world job" claims all the time.
First IBM internal draft of the book got published.
Jetlag degrades now....
... but read the whole story:
Could not get any sleep on the flight (as usual) and had a Russian sitting next to me drinking Vodka for the whole night every 30 minutes. I was back on Saturday noon in Muenster airport. My wife and kids were there to take me back home. The rest of the day the kids had so many funny and nice ideas and we played the whole afternoon. After dinner I went to bed trying to get some sleep. I think 4 hours from 1am to 5am .... So Sunday began very tired. German breakfast. Rolls! Great. All the things I like for breakfast. Noon: Barbecue. And all the day in the backyard playing with the kids.
Next night: Again 4 hours. Monday I went back to the customer project I left before the Residency. Some trouble to get things done, project needs some rearrangements. All schedules are shifted.
Rest of the week needed to get the project back on the track and getting things done. Really few sleep at night, but last night to Friday I'm back to my usual 6 to 7 hours.

Tags: DWA Customizing, IBM, Lotus, Redbook, Jetlag, Business

Location: Muenster, Germany

Early Checkin gives a good seat on the flights...

Went to the airport in Boston at 12.30 to checkin my flight home. I thought to get a good seat would be worth the extra trip out of Cambridge. The Lufthansa counter just was to be opened and I had to wait about 30 Minutes until I could get to the counter. But that's OK - I calculated up to an hour. Gregory got a car from Hertz inbetween and drove us back to the office to do some final work and edit some stuff, put comments in and so on....

Tags: Boston, Travel

Travel Home

Before homesickness overwhelms me - I'm happy to travel home today. I really really miss my family, my wife, my kids!
Also I miss this good food at home, not everyday's foodcourt whatever sandwich, pizza, chicken something, you name it.
So having a real home style breakfast, normal food, my own bed, my favourite beer - well Sam Adams is not that bad, but you know - being hoem is different.

Tags: Travel, Weekend

Famous Last Day....

Today, Friday is the last official day of our Residency. Some homesickness takes place and also some fun. We made some cool mugsto remember the good time here. At 10 we will meet again for a last official breakout meeting, eat some great cinnamon rools and banana bread, Phil brought this morning from his wife. Thank you, we'l have a good day today.

Tags: DWA Customizing, IBM, Lotus, Redbook, Cambridge

The Mugs are done !

Tags: DWA Customizing, IBM, Lotus, Redbook, Cambridge, Fun

Redbones.

Well, if you ever have been there. You know, how we all feel today. Not very productive. Just still full of meet. I feel like a redbone. Comment from John:

Just thought this would all make you feel better.. (I don't know about any of you - but after last night - this is how I feel..) They are busy making more food for our next round.. lunch anyone?

Tags: Cambridge, Fun, Redbones

Last Week for the Redbook!

What we will do in the last week: Last chapter reviews - we already got good and extensive feedback from development. We will add more additional and some considered as optional stuff, enhance the samples to make them look really nice, clearify bad code, remove dubious comments and so on. Friday it will be done and the first internal draft will go out to the IBM Intranet.
... and finally: have some more fun.

Tags: DWA Customizing, IBM, Lotus, Redbook, Cambridge

Nauset Beach @ Cape Cod

Well, you know. If you're not that familiar with the area and environment - you have to rely on yourself. This leads to unpredictable results in finding the right places to hang out and have a good time. This Sunday was somehow different from the ones before. We had some plans, but also found that bringing a grill to the beach and having a barbecue with a case of Sam - impossible, if you do not want to end up in jail. Ok, so we went out to Cape Cod to find a "commercialised" beach, with some sun umbrellas, tables and chairs, sitting at the waterfront having a beer and a steak or lobster. But we couldn't find one. We drove to nearly every beach on the way from Plymouth to the outer cape. Finally we ended up on Nauset Beach. Nice place and good entertainment. It took us three and a half hours to get there from Boston and the way back after a nice dinner in "Lobster Pound" in Orleans was almost a five hours drive through all the traffic jam heading back to Boston from the Cape.

Tags: Cape Cod, Fun, Beach, Lobster, Weekend