Advent Beer Calendar 2008: Day 5: Anchor Christmas Ale

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Advent Beer Calendar 2008: Day 1: Red Hill Christmas Ale

It's December again and that means I'm running my annual Advent Beer Calendar! Each day of the month I pick a Christmas or similar seasonally-themed beer and blog about it, counting down the days until Christmas, advent calendar-style. It's a fun tradition I've got going here that I look forward to as the end of the year rolls around. This first day I picked Red Hill Christmas Ale from Australia's Red Hill Brewery. Of this 7.5% beer, they write: This strong Belgian abbey styled ale is one of the brewery’s most highly awarded (Silver Medal AIBA 08, Bronze medal AIBA 06 & 07) and requested. Deep orange in colour with a lasting creamy head. Spicy hop aroma from our own Hallertauer & Tettnanger hop flowers with a complex malty finish. [lien] [EN]

Advent Beer Calendar 2007: Day 24: Anchor Christmas Ale

Today's the final day of the Advent Calendar, and you know I couldn't let another year go by without picking Anchor Christmas Ale! This annual favorite (technically called "Our Special Ale")—perhaps one of the most anticipated and favorite American Christmas seasonal out there—is different from year to year; Anchor changes the recipe (which is secret) and the tree on the label. First brewed in 1975, this year's vintage is their 33rd release. Jay Brooks heralded this year's release (and the beer overall) wonderfully for this month's Session; go read that and then go out and pick up a six-pack of the beer for Christmas Eve. BeerAdvocate score: B+ (letter grade). RateBeer score: 3.58/5, 89th percentile. [lien] [EN]

Advent Beer Calendar 2008: Day 4: Mikkeller Santa's Little Helper

Today's beer pick comes from Denmark: Mikkeller's Santa's Little Helper. This is a powerhouse of a brew: this year's version is in the style of a Belgian Quadrupel at 11% alcohol. Check out this description from Liquid Solutions: This 11% quadruple style is a tasty powerhouse. It pours a dark amber with aromas ranging from tropical, cookie dough, and figs. Its flavor is of caramel, brown sugar, plums and spice. A big yummy dessert beer. Nothing "little" about this beer! And it comes in 750ml bottles, so you may want to share... BeerAdvocate grade: B+. RateBeer score: 3.76/5, 93rd percentile. Mikkeller Santas Little Helper [lien] [EN]

PHP Advent Calendar 2008

"Christmas is nigh, and the PHP Advent Calendar rides again! In line with tradition, we've swapped the chocolates for doses of wisdom from people in the PHP community who've kindly donated their thoughts and tips to see us through the coming year." With big names in the already published list like Cal Evans, Matthew O'Phinney, Lorna Mitchell, Elizabeth Naramore, and another 25 issues coming up, you really can't miss this years edition of the PHP Advent Calendar, brought to us by Chris Shiflett and Sean Coates. Wether you want to follow the articles on Twitter, or rather subscribe to the feed, you sure will give the upcoming year a headstart with all the wisdom written down in these daily articles. Curious? Read the already posted articles on the PHP Advent Calendar 2008 website. [lien] [EN]

PHP Advent Calendar 2008

"Christmas is nigh, and the PHP Advent Calendar rides again! In line with tradition, we've swapped the chocolates for doses of wisdom from people in the PHP community who've kindly donated their thoughts and tips to see us through the coming year." With big names in the already published list like Cal Evans, Matthew O'Phinney, Lorna Mitchell, Elizabeth Naramore, and another 25 issues coming up, you really can't miss this years edition of the PHP Advent Calendar, brought to us by Chris Shiflett and Sean Coates. Wether you want to follow the articles on Twitter, or rather subscribe to the feed, you sure will give the upcoming year a headstart with all the wisdom written down in these daily articles. Curious? Read the already posted articles on the PHP Advent Calendar 2008 website. [lien] [EN]

Jessica Simpson Does an Ad For Vitamin Beer of the Day

So everyone is writing about this Jessica Simpson promoting beer to help relate to the common country folk she’s trying to seduce with this whole new country image because she realizes being a tired popstar isn’t as lucrative as being the next Dolly Parton, when we all know that Jessica Simpson’s drug of choice is poppin’ diet pills because she just wants to be skinny enough for someone to marry her and have babies with her so that she can be like her little sister. I also think it’s funny that she went with a beer named Stampede to further solidfy just how country she is, because nothing says I jerk off bulls in my spare time and sell their sperm like a beer called Stamede. I hear her next move in getting in with the hicks is to sell her luxury cars and start riding a horse everywhere she goes. [lien] [EN]

Mischa Barton Does Beer of the Day

If you’re wondering how Mischa Barton keeps her luxurious legs and by luxurious I mean sloppy as fuck, which may have been a sign of wealth in a time of famine and poverty (no, not last week), here’s your answer, Beer. Beer is also the way I keep my appealing figure, and by appealing I mean fat and really only appealing to my neighbor who thinks he was a hot air balloon operator because he is crazy and I remind him of a time when his craft was relevant as he tries to figure out a way to paint a pattern on my stomach and tie a basket to my legs and have me carry him into the sky, which always ends up in me calling the police or filing complaints with my landlord…. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Mischa Barton Does Beer of the Day", url: "http://www.drunkenstepfather. [lien] [EN]

On the fourth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me: Four Demystifying Programs

On the fourth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me: Four Demystifying Programs Inspired by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twelve_Days_of_Christmas_%28song%29; enabled by Windows Live Writer! On the fourth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me Four Demystifying Programs, Three Products Launching, Two cool industry conferences, And the source code to Tafiti. :)   Wow, this is so well done! As members of the Developer Platform Evangelism (DPE) team within Public Sector at Microsoft, James Chittenden and David Baliles wanted to provide some of their latest creations to the public. Two of their four developer resources, MSDN Admin Kit and MSDN BluePrints, leverage the very latest in Silverlight 2.0 technologies to serve up relevant information for MSDN Administrators and End Users of all roles in the Software Development Lifecycle. [lien] [EN]

On the fifth day of Christmas my true love sent to me: Five BizTalk VLabs

On the fifth day of Christmas my true love sent to me: Five BizTalk VLabs Inspired by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twelve_Days_of_Christmas_%28song%29; enabled by Windows Live Writer! On the fifth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me Five BizTalk VLabs, Four Demystifying Programs, Three Products Launching, Two cool industry conferences, And the source code to Tafiti. :)   I've been a fan of the MSDN Virtual Labs for a while now and it is a great way to get your fingers dirty with code without dirtying your corporate/production box. If you are part of the unlucky few who are unable to go out and grab the latest CTPs from Microsoft, this is a great way to poke around and learn as you go. My personal feeling is that BizTalk (BTS) should be part of every serious short list when planning implementation of Service Oriented applications (if you love WCF and WF. [lien] [EN]

On the sixth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me: Six free e-learning

On the sixth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me: Six free e-learning Inspired by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twelve_Days_of_Christmas_%28song%29; enabled by Windows Live Writer! On the sixth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me Six free e-learning, Five BizTalk VLabs, Four Demystifying Programs, Three Products Launching, Two cool industry conferences, And the source code to Tafiti. :) This is a limited time offer, so grab it before it is gone (and if it is gone, nice > naughty). The 6 freebies from Microsoft Learning include: Free e-Books of three recent publications from Microsoft Press: · Introducing Microsoft LINQ by Paolo Pialorsi and Marco Russo (ISBN: 9780735623910) - This practical guide covers Language Integrated Query (LINQ) syntax fundamentals. [lien] [EN]

eRubyCon 2008 Day 2

eRubyCon 2008 Day 2 Yesterday I wrote a write up of eRubyCon 2008 Day 1. I'm learning a ton - the only issue that I've had is that my brain is filling up. It's an amazing conference. I wrote up day to at eRubyCon 2008 Day 2. Posted: Sunday, August 17, 2008 3:00 PM by joshholmes [lien] [EN]

Advent Beer Calendar 2007: Day 23: The Abyss

Today is my birthday, so like I did last year, I'm selecting a beer that isn't (ordinarily) a Christmas/winter-themed seasonal, but is more of a "birthday choice": Deschutes Brewery's The Abyss. Released as part of Deschutes' Reserve Series, this phenomenal Imperial Stout is 11% alcohol by volume and aged in barrels, and is an extremely limited release—the release party for this year's batch is January 15th, and I guarantee it will go fast. The Abyss has been winning awards all over the place—including the gold at this year's GABF—and comes in a wax-dipped bottle. And just to make you all jealous (it is my birthday, after all!), let me just say that yes, I've drank this beer and yes, I have three bottles of last year's vintage in my pantry. [lien] [EN]

php|tek 2008: day 0

Today is the first day of php|tek 2008. Here's a short review of yesterday, the pre-conference tutorial day. In the morning, I sat in on Christian Wenz' Ajax tutorial. It was a basic introduction into javascript and ajax, so it was a little bit more basic than I had anticipated, but I had the chance to [...] [lien] [EN]

Every Day Is Christmas

viewNode("b406ca997700c", { player_profile:'vega4', width: 410, height: 315 }); Thanks to everyone for THIS! Posted: July 20, 2008 at 5:51 am [lien] [EN]