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Darren Hague

Darren Hague SAP Employee  
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Darren Hague has been working with Web-based applications since 1998, got to know Java and SAP on joining Axon Solutions in 2000. He started working for SAP in September 2008.
He became responsible for Enterprise Portals at Axon in 2001, becoming one of the first SAP-certified portal consultants in the UK. At about the same time he set up the SAP Portals Admins Yahoo group to allow people to share information and help each other with installation, which was something of a dark art back then. This group is now defunct as a result of SAP having some crazy idea about setting up a community of their own.
He has written a book on Universal Worklist for SAP Press, and is becoming increasingly involved with things like Identity Management and the SAP Community. Darren is proud to be an SAP Mentor.

OpenID comes to SAP
SAP is becoming an OpenID Provider - read about it here, and claim your OpenID name at http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/updateprofile Aug. 5, 2009
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Community Day Changed My Life
At about this time last year I was getting ready for Community Day at Tech Ed in Munich. I had just 200-something points to my name, and no visibility outside of a small corner of the NetWeaver Portal forums. Fast forward 12 months, and I have had a book published by SAP PRESS, an SAP VP gave up his Saturday for me, I was made an SAP Mentor, I was offered free entry to SAPPHIRE where I asked SAP execs some serious questions, I'm part of an amazing team of people working on a next-generation team productivity & communications tool (ESME), I got access to internal development teams at SAP, I engaged with SAP on licensing issues, I got over 3000 points and I even started working at SAP in the last few weeks on the team that builds the very site you're looking at now. All of this happened since my first Community Day - how cool is that? Sep. 24, 2008
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Be careful who offers you an OpenID
As a counterpoint to my previous blog about how OpenID can be really useful in the enterprise, this blog discusses why you should be wary of some of the OpenID providers out there. Aug. 1, 2008
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The Business Case for OpenID in the Enterprise
Martin Raepple recently wrote a great blog entry on how to use OpenID to allow sign-on to a Java-based NetWeaver application. In this blog I want to talk about OpenID in the business context - outside of the consumer-based internet, just how is OpenID relevant to the business systems we implement? Jul. 24, 2008
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An introduction to Scala, part 2: Scala and XML
This article shows how easy it is to work with XML using Scala. You will see how to develop a "mashup" which reads a list of your friends from Twitter and a list of blogs from SDN, and generates a web page containing a list of blogs written by your friends. The entire application is around 30 lines of code. Jun. 23, 2008
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Press Conference 2.0
This morning, I felt it was a shame I couldn't make it to Sapphire 08 in Berlin. Right now, it feels like I was right there in the heart of things. May. 19, 2008
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An introduction to Scala, part 1
Scala is a language which compiles to Java bytecode and combines functional and object-oriented programming styles. It fixes some of the commonly-perceived problems with Java, giving much of the flexibility of a scripting language, but with the safety of static typing and the performance of a compiled language. May. 16, 2008
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SAP Community Day London 2008
On Saturday 26th April, a bunch of die-hard SDNers got together at Axon's offices in Egham, near London. Here's what happened. Apr. 29, 2008
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