Recently it has come to people’s attention that there is a website www.sap-abap4.com out there with a lot of very interesting content … which seems to have been completely “lifted” from the SAP Developer Network (SDN) and reproduced verbatim, except that in each case the original author name has been removed! Lots of discussion is [...]
I remember back in the ’90s joking with my friend Piers When I see the first book on SAP hit the bookstores, it’s time to move on In those days there were no books on SAP, and I was still in shock from receiving SAP documentation properly printed and bound — in the early days [...]
Rain. Lots of it. And I drove through it all this morning, all the way down the A61, to get to SAP University in Rot, near Walldorf. I’m at the SDN Meets Labs event that’s taking place today and tomorrow. The event is a part of the SAP NetWeaver Technology Tour, which serves to bring [...]
2004 is here. Neues Spiel, neues Glück. Although I’ve tried to avoid meta-blogging, I’ll make an exception this time. For whatever reason my blogging went quiet towards the end of last year. Work and home life kept me nicely busy. Actually, as you can see from a few recent posts here, what online time I’ve [...]
It’s always great to be able to attend CeBIT – and this year there’s an extra reason to go: SAP are hoping to have a new Linux 6.40 evaluation WAS system available. Continued … [From SAP Developer Network SAP Weblogs by DJ Adams]
In a TechEd session last month on ABAP Objects, I came across a wonderful example of an LDB implemented using methods and events. While the re-implementation of the classic PUT/GET relationship is just an example to illustrate ABAP Objects’ explicitness, it nevertheless is a thing of beauty. Continued … [From SAP Developer Network SAP Weblogs [...]
Brian gave us a great rundown of URL mangling by the BSP engine, and mentioned the ‘decode_url’ BSP application which showed you what the gunk in the rewritten URL means. ‘decode_url’ isn’t in my (Linux-based) WAS 6.10 system (and therefore perhaps not in yours either) so I hacked one up as curiosity got the better [...]
I’m off to SAP TechEd in Basel this week – hurrah! Let’s hope there’s ‘net connectivity there. Continued … [From SAP Developer Network SAP Weblogs by DJ Adams]
Dashboard is an intriguing project from one of the founders of Ximian. It seems to be crying out for integration with data from R/3. Continued … [From SAP Developer Network SAP Weblogs by DJ Adams]
Some thoughts on improving the OSS experience. Continued … [From SAP Developer Network SAP Weblogs by DJ Adams]