Social Media: Loss of Control or The Path to Serendipity?
Why participate in social media or "what's in for me?" Jan. 27, 2012
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SAP Mentor Monday: SAP Technology Overview
Join us for the upcoming SAP Mentors Monday webinar about 'SAP Technology - An overview' with Peter McNulty on Dec. 19th... Dec. 9, 2011
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Impressions from SAPPHIRE NOW + SAP TechEd - Madrid 2011
In more than one way events like SAP TechEd or SAPPHIRE NOW remind me of weddings. I mean, hey, you spend months preparing for the big moment and then - bang - the event is over before you even realize it... Nov. 18, 2011
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Announcing: Project River
As promised in my last blog post I take it as my obligation to not only talk about the big topics, but also shine the light on the runner-ups when it comes to Technology Innovation: so let's take a look at the just announced Project 'River' PaaS. Nov. 10, 2011
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Technology Innovation at SAPPHIRE NOW: SAP HANA
In my second post of my SAPPHIRE NOW blog series I’d like to have a closer look on everybody's darling: SAP HANA. Nov. 10, 2011
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Boarding Call for Technology and Innovation to SAPPHIRE NOW from Madrid!
In this first of a series of pre-SAPPHIRE NOW blog posts as the Social Ambassador for the Technology Innovation Campus, I face the challenge to talk about two very sensitive topics: innovation and myself. Oct. 5, 2011
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Impressions from SAP TechEd Las Vegas 2011
It has become both a ritual as well as a tradition for me to wrap up my personal SAP TechEd experience in a blog post, so here we go. As I'm just one in a million of people writing about the event it's rather hard to come up with a unique twist to differentiate from all the excellent coverage ... and add value! Sep. 26, 2011
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About 'Embracing Inclusion to Drive Innovation'
Here's some personal (!) feedback about the 'Embracing Inclusion to Drive Innovation - Design Thinking Workshop' conducted at SAP TechEd 2011 Las Vegas. Sep. 19, 2011
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SAP NetWeaver OnDemand at TechEd
In this post I provide an overview about the various sessions related to SAP NetWeaver OnDemand Java capabilities.  Aug. 18, 2011
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Quo vadis SOA?
As the echo of #SAPPHIRENOW resonates through the ecosystem people keep talking about the new trinity of on-device, on-demand and in-memory computing. Personally I feel it may be about time to re-cap on the technology that has brought us here in the first place and then move to the here and now. Why's that? Well, to paraphrase one of my favorite artists: You know where it ends? Well, it usually depends on where you start! May. 25, 2011
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Three Filters
There's a great story about Socrates called "Three Filters." I believe that it's a great guideline, not only for writing or blogging ... but for life. Apr. 5, 2011
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CompAppsMM #2 – Architecture Overview
In the 2nd blog posts of this series we have a closer look on the architecture principles of Composite Applications. Mar. 1, 2011
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[def.] blogging: voicing your opinion & sharing experiences
Re: 'The Last - Mobility News Weekly - Maybe' - what I gotta say about it...  Feb. 25, 2011
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CompAppsMM #1 – Mission Statement
In my last SCN blog post I introduced the idea of "Composite Applications - The Missing Manuals" and the team behind it. In today's edition of my accompanying blog series I'd like to provide some more details and background information about the concept we have in mind. I'll talk about our vision and then discuss how we approach our first contribution to SAP Code Exchange. Feb. 17, 2011
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Composite Apps - The Missing Manuals
The 'Composition Application - Missing Manuals' initiative hostend on the SDN Code Exchange Platform aims to create a productivity starter kit and sandbox system for the development of Composites by providing technical libraries and an easy demo app documenting its features & how-to use them. Jan. 31, 2011
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Improving Development Productivity by leveraging Cloud Computing
This blog shares our experience of using SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment in a cloud environment... Jan. 24, 2011
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Release of the 1st Mentors Quarterly
Some of the SAP Mentors have teamed up to bring you the first episode of the 'Mentor Quarterly' magazine... enjoy! Dec. 22, 2010
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SAP Mentors #2 - Reflections on the gapingvoid webinar
Yesterday there's been a public Mentor Monday webinar with @gapingvoid - Hugh McLeod. He raised the question why we think that the "being totally frickin' amazing is Job One" print resonates with us. Here's my humble effort to express my own thoughts... Nov. 30, 2010
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I18N | How-to support custom resource bundles (on NWCE)
In this blog post I explain how-to support custom resource bundle within NetWeaver Composition Environment to cater to our I18N needs in a modification-free manner.  Nov. 23, 2010
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SAP Mentor Monday: "REST and Enterprise Services Demystified"
During TechEd and these days on social media there has been lots of debates (and playful rivalries) about whether or not the light-weight RESTful service consumption makes Enterprise Services (ES) obsolete or not. How do these two technologies relate/compete/complement?  Nov. 12, 2010
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Impressions from SAP TechEd 2010 Las Vegas
My humble attempt to digest and recap on the awesomeness that was SAP TechEd Las Vegas in 2010... Oct. 28, 2010
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Impressions from TechEd 2010 Berlin
The German summer was sort of a let-down (again) and fall has silenty taken its place. It's mid of October and as such it's about time to write the annual wrap-up about what's been hot and not at this year's SAP TechEd... Oct. 18, 2010
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SAP Mentors Fall 2010 - Howling at the Harvest Moon
So, how does it feel to run with the mentor pack... being a puppy? Here's my point of view... Sep. 28, 2010
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Why blog?
Why blog? If you're curious, read on... Sep. 11, 2010
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Loose-coupling and strong bonding @ TechEd 2010
In todays blog I post about two TechEd 2010 sessions related to 'loose-coupling' of Composite applications PMC360 and CD301 as well as making a claim why TechEd is the best place for networking... Sep. 1, 2010
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A Day in the Life being an Architect - modi operandi
Today I talk about an architects daily business - patterns...  Jul. 28, 2010
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My Submission to the SCN Choice Video Awards 2010
I submitted two videos: a 35s youtube search story and a 3 min video introduction...  Jul. 19, 2010
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Cultural Awareness – Working with Israelis
In today's blog post I talk about my learnings I got from interacting with Israelis... Jul. 8, 2010
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A Day in the Life being an Architect - Coaching
In today's blog post I talk about the coaching/mentoring aspects of the job description of a Development Architect... Jun. 23, 2010
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Random Thoughts: Convenience on Demand
In today's blog post I reflect on my recent trip to SAP Research Dresden and the convenience of smartphones... May. 27, 2010
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Web 2.0 - The potential of social networks
In today's blog post I talk about the potenial (and power) of social networks... Apr. 29, 2010
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Hidden gems of functionality - JAXB
This blog describes how simple it is to use JAXB to convert Java Beans into XML and vice versa... Apr. 27, 2010
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Dynamic Duo - CAF and JPA interplay
Today's blog talks about how CAF Business Objects and plain JPA coding can be used together to meet an application's persistence needs. Nov. 30, 2009
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Building Extensible Composite Applications with SAP
In today's blog post I present my upcoming book "Building Extensible Composite Applications with SAP" and its content. I talk about my writing experience and the reasons that drove me to put my level of technical writing to the next level. I'd love to get in contact with my readers and since it all started with SDN, what could be a better place for that... Oct. 5, 2009
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Coffee Corner Talk: ESB and SOA
This blog is my attempt to consolidate my thoughts on the role of an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) when developing Composites within a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)... Dec. 16, 2008
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Developer Cheat Sheet #1: Setting up the Service Registry
In the first installment of my series about 'Developer Cheat Sheets' I briefly explain how-to setup the Service Service Registry of SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment 7.1 EhP 1 (CE 7.1.1)... Nov. 3, 2008
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Hidden gems of functionality - No more BAPI test reports
This blog reveals a little known secret of the ABAP transaction SE37: chaining multiple RFCs/ BAPIs within one transactional bracket. The most prominent use-case is probably committing the transaction after a BAPI call... Oct. 27, 2008
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Impressions from TechEd'08 Berlin
My traditional write-up about the annual TechEd from a personal point of view so that those who could not attend the event can get a grip on what it was like... Oct. 23, 2008
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SDN in the times of Web 2.0: Need for Feed(-back)
This blog addresses the need of communication guidelines to be applied @ SDN in the times of Web 2.0 and invites people to discuss ways to increase constructive feedback to blog posts.  Jun. 3, 2008
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There's a rule for every exception
In today's blog post I'd like to talk about Exception handling when consuming Enterprise Services (ES) or ES-like Web Services... Apr. 23, 2008
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Auto-generated Enterprise Service Test Stubs
In today's blog I describe how-to automatically generate Enterprise Service Test Stubs. Dec. 12, 2007
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About "Java BAdIs (Part II) - Concept Study on a Generic Framework"...
This blog is accompanying the SDN article "Java BAdIs (Part II) - Concept Study on a Generic Framework" and aims to encourage the community to discuss the concepts and the experiences with it.  Nov. 14, 2007
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About "The Anatomy of Java-based Enterprise Services"...
This blog is accompanying the SDN article "The Anatomy of Java-based Enterprise Services" and aims to encourage the community to discuss the concepts of it.  Nov. 12, 2007
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Impressions from TechEd'07 Munich
TechEd'07 In Munich - It's been very interesting days indeed; starting with the unique experience of attending Community Day on Tuesday, the somewhat entertaining keynotes, Demo Jam, the Evening event on Thursday and of course all the new input I got from the various lectures and hands-on sessions I attended. Not to forget all the networking and chit-chatting that was going on in between... Oct. 22, 2007
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Talking About Custom Composite Development
This is the first post of my blog about custom & composite development topics. Based on the experiences gained in many customer projects I'd like to share with you some of the solutions we came up with when facing everyday challenges of developing custom applications based on the SAP NetWeaver platfom. Oct. 4, 2007
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