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Daniel McWeeney

Daniel McWeeney  
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Dan is worked for the past 5 years with SAP technologies. He has participated in projects spanning many areas such as CO-PA, BW back-end, BW Reporting, SEM-BPS, Portal, TPM and of course ABAP. Dan received a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Lehigh University, focusing mostly on UI programming and software design principals. While there, he was a member of a research team designing innovative user interfaces. His developments helped integrate voice-recognition software into existing Virtual Environments.

Confluence Love
Jeffery Walker, president of Atlassian software the makes of the Confluence wiki used on SDN, fighting cancer again. Mar. 5, 2009
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Being a Judge
The widget competition is on and I can't win! Dec. 4, 2007
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Ruby Conference / Bay Area SDN Meetup
This weekend there is a Ruby conference in the bay area, it's not too expensive and has some great speakers. Apr. 20, 2007
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Colgate-Palmolive & SAP Imagineering Fellowship
Colgate-Palmolive and SAP have created a program where SAP developers and Colgate developers will work together on new innovative solutions. Apr. 10, 2007
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BSP Meet your AJAX Framework: AJS
If you always wished you could make cool looking "Web 2.0" applications in SAP, but were always held up by the fear of writing mounds of JavaScript, today is your lucky day.  Mar. 13, 2007
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Welcome Zake
Zake is a friendly utility that allows you to easily build nuggets from subversion source trees. I have high hopes for Zake's usefulness as the community plows into more OSS projects. The first release is out and this blog talks about next features. Feb. 5, 2007
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Web Services Overhead
Ever wonder what the overhead of using a Webservice is? A detailed comparison of RFCs vs. SOAP Services. Jan. 9, 2007
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ABAP Magic Models
Putting OOP back into RoR and ABAP mashups. Nov. 27, 2006
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SDN Day Amsterdam
Once again SDN day doesn't fail to impress. Oct. 18, 2006
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SAPlink One Week, One New Version -- UPDATE
SAPlink Beta v0.1.1 is out! Here are the details of what you can get by upgrading. Sep. 21, 2006
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Lipstick on a Pig ( Why Rails is good for SAP )
Building on a few of the SDN day talks here is some more information about my Ruby on Rails demo and also general points about why RoR is so useful. Sep. 19, 2006
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How Google could revolutionize BI
This is a break-down of some of the technologies used at Google and how they could potentially use them to change the face of BI as we know it. Jul. 24, 2006
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How to convince your Manager/VP/CIO that scripting is useful
Sometimes convincing your manager that getting to mess with new technologies is risky or not worth it. In this blog I attempt to help you convince your management that this is a worthwhile technology to pursue. May. 30, 2006
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Visual Composer Pilot 1st Impressions
The 1st in a series of blogs about our experiences as a Visual Composer Pilot customer. This is just our 1st impressions of the tool. Mar. 21, 2006
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SAP's Rebuke of Open Source
Recently Shai Agassi gave a talk dismissing Open Source software. Given that SDN is trying their hand at some open source solutions I thought everyone would like to know. Nov. 11, 2005
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Are Web Dynpros and Ajax Related?
Are Ajax Applications and Web Dynpro related? Do these two technologies share any common foundations? Did SAP create Ajax-like applications years ago? I give you the information to decide for yourself. Nov. 7, 2005
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SAP's Open Source Possibilities
SAP and the Open Source development model, maybe a match made in heaven but can SAP make use of SDN to create the ultimate Open Source Project? Jul. 12, 2005
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How-To: Create AJAX Applications in SAP
In conjunction with my TechEd Proposal, "Framework for Client-Rendered Web Applications in SAP," I continute my exploration of AJAX applications in SAP. May. 26, 2005
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SAP Web Applications the Google Way
In conjunction with my TechEd proposal I decided to write about the creation of a SAP Web Application using technology made popular by sites like gmail and a9. May. 20, 2005
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