VCD #16 - The REST Bot: Behind the scenes
In VCD #16 you have seen, amongst others, the REST bot. This short blog wants to explain how he/it works. Uwe Fetzer in ABAP, Application Server, Beyond SAP, Business Process Expert, Business Process Modeling, Business Server Pages, Python [Sep. 29, 2009 12:22 AM | 8 Comments | Permalink]

A new REST handler / dispatcher for the ICF
In implementing a REST-orientated HTTP-based application in SAP, I found myself wanting something slightly different from what the ICF framework offered me in terms of handling and dispatching requests. So I built it. DJ Adams in ABAP, Beyond SAP, Emerging Technologies, Python, SAP NetWeaver Platform, Scripting Languages, Service-Oriented Architecture [Sep. 21, 2009 06:42 AM | 5 Comments | Permalink]

SAP and Google Wave - Conversation Augmentation
A short 'conversation augmentation' demo of integration between Google Wave and SAP. DJ Adams in ABAP, Beyond SAP, Emerging Technologies, Integration and Certification, Python, Scripting Languages [Sep. 07, 2009 11:35 PM | 4 Comments | Permalink]

Python and SAP Adventures
A follow-up to my blog series on experiences and instructions on using perl to make RFC calls to an SAP ABAP system; this one focuses on the python scripting language. David Hull in Application Server, Emerging Technologies, Python, Scripting Languages [Jul. 09, 2009 02:31 PM | 3 Comments | Permalink]

SAP BusinessObjects innovation center is live!
This is for the launch of the SAP BusinessObjects innovation center on SCN Laurent Bride in Analytics, Python, SAP Developer Network, SAP Research, SAP TechEd, Scripting Languages, Search, Service-Oriented Architecture, Web Dynpro, PHP, Perl, Master Data Management (MDM), BI Accelerator, Business Intelligence (BI), Business Objects, Crystal Reports, Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Performance Management, Java Programming, JavaScript, Widgets [Apr. 02, 2009 11:57 AM | 5 Comments | Permalink]

20K for Best Polestar Mashup
Innocentive, a partner of the SAP Community Network is hosting this SAP sponsored challenge which will reward $20,000 to the developers of the best Polestar Ondemand mashups. This contest will only last for 30 days, so don't delay. In this post you will get all of the resources you need and learn about the level of effort that will be required. Robert Horne in ABAP, Service-Oriented Architecture, SAP Developer Network, Ruby, Python, PHP, Perl, JavaScript, Java Programming, Interoperability .NET, Emerging Technologies, Business Objects, Business Intelligence (BI), Web Dynpro [Mar. 09, 2009 12:56 PM | 5 Comments | Permalink]

Polestar in the cloud Web Services API - Sample Codes
Polestar in the cloud RESTful Web Services API - Sample Codes to Get You Started! Ted Ueda in Business Intelligence (BI), Business Objects, Interoperability .NET, Java Programming, Python, Scripting Languages, Service-Oriented Architecture [Mar. 09, 2009 10:36 AM | 6 Comments | Permalink]

Timeless Software: Part 3
Large-scale, enterprise software, like SAP ERP, must be able to leverage and adapt to change while delivering continuity and reliability at low cost. SAP software is architected on principles that enable fast integration of, and the ability to reliably manage and exploit, changing and emerging technologies. Vishal Sikka in Analytics, Python, RFID, Ruby, SAP Business Workflow, SAP Developer Network, SAP Process Integration (PI), SAP Research, Scripting Languages, Service-Oriented Architecture, Standards, Visual Composer, Web Dynpro, PHP, Perl, Application Server, Business Solutions, Composition Environment (CE), Duet, Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Portal (EP), ERP, Interoperability, Knowledge Management (KM), Master Data Management (MDM), Mobile, Open Source, Widgets [Nov. 02, 2008 10:27 PM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

Timeless Software: Part 2
The need for maximum efficiency and flexibility of expression in content creation has led to a proliferation of programming languages. The resulting heterogeneous language landscapes present challenges to optimize execution at run-time. Run-time efficiencies can be achieved by separating meaning from optimization and managing state across layers of abstraction. Finally, maintaining security and reliability in the face of constant change and adaptation requires a powerful and flexible lifecycle management system. Vishal Sikka in Service-Oriented Architecture, Java Programming, Interoperability, ERP, Enterprise Portal (EP), Emerging Technologies, Duet, Composition Environment (CE), Business Solutions, Application Server, Analytics, Standards, Visual Composer, Web Dynpro, JavaScript, Master Data Management (MDM), Scripting Languages, SAP Research, SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP Process Integration (PI), SAP Developer Network, SAP Business Workflow, Ruby, RFID, Python, PHP, Perl, Open Source, Mobile, Widgets [Nov. 02, 2008 09:53 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Timeless Software: Part 1
Large-scale, enterprise software, like SAP ERP, must be able to leverage and adapt to change while delivering continuity and reliability at low cost. SAP software is architected on principles that enable fast integration of, and the ability to reliably manage and exploit, changing and emerging technologies. Vishal Sikka in Widgets, Open Source, Mobile, Master Data Management (MDM), JavaScript, Java Programming, Interoperability, ERP, Enterprise Portal (EP), Emerging Technologies, Duet, Composition Environment (CE), Business Solutions, Application Server, Perl, PHP, Web Dynpro, Visual Composer, Standards, Service-Oriented Architecture, Scripting Languages, SAP Research, SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP Process Integration (PI), SAP Developer Network, SAP Business Workflow, Ruby, RFID, Python, Analytics [Nov. 02, 2008 08:13 PM | 7 Comments | Permalink]

Bangalore - SDN RIA Hacker Night!
It's official! We are now having (first time ever) the SDN RIA Hacker Night in Bangalore! Craig Cmehil in Emerging Technologies, Scripting Languages, SAP TechEd, SAP Developer Network, Ruby, Python, PHP, Perl, Open Source, Widgets [Oct. 23, 2008 05:52 AM | 3 Comments | Permalink]

SAP and Open Source
This blog entry tries to provide an overview about all the different Open Source related activities at SAP Erwin Tenhumberg in Community Projects, Scripting Languages, Ruby, Python, Public Sector, PHP, Perl, Open Source, Interoperability, Service-Oriented Architecture, Emerging Technologies, Standards [Sep. 03, 2008 10:50 AM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

DI Commander 2.0 - The New Generation Scripting Tool
The new version of DI Commander comes with a bunch of powerful new features and functions. Henry Nordstrom in Python, SAP Business One, Scripting Languages, Interoperability .NET [May. 05, 2008 06:40 AM | 14 Comments | Permalink]

With your head in the clouds: viral cloud- and SOA-based mashups
This blog contains ideas revolving around cloud computing and viral mash-ups that access Enterprise SOAs. Richard Hirsch in Beyond SAP, Composition Environment (CE), Emerging Technologies, Service-Oriented Architecture, Python, Ranting, Visual Composer [Apr. 24, 2008 01:05 AM | 5 Comments | Permalink]

Continuous integration in open source software development
This paper presents the results of a quantitative analysis of the agile methods' practice of continuous integration in open source software development. Hiring managers and developers will find the discussion of open source skills interesting. Dirk Riehle in Emerging Technologies, Standards, Scripting Languages, Ruby, Python, PHP, Perl, JavaScript, Interoperability, Open Source [Mar. 08, 2008 01:09 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Selling services for stock open source components is not a business you want to be in
Services markets around community open source software are priced markup over cost and thus not a pleasant place to be. Dirk Riehle in Emerging Technologies, Interoperability, Standards, Scripting Languages, Ruby, Ranting, Python, PHP, Perl, JavaScript, Open Source [Mar. 06, 2008 01:06 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Is there money in open source services?
A short discussion of data and opinions on whether there is money in the long tail of open source software services. Dirk Riehle in Emerging Technologies, Standards, Scripting Languages, Ruby, Ranting, Python, PHP, Perl, Interoperability, Open Source [Mar. 05, 2008 05:56 AM | 5 Comments | Permalink]

F/OSS: "First-Class SAP Consumers"?
Chromatic blogs again on the O'Reilly Network - this time with a suggestion that expands beyond Grails to other free and open source software as potential first-class SAP consumers. SDN community: Is this SAP? Moya Watson in Emerging Technologies, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, SAP Developer Network, SAP NetWeaver Platform, Scripting Languages, Standards [Dec. 19, 2007 02:19 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Blag's best blogs picks from 2007
My list of best blogs of 2007. Alvaro Tejada Galindo in ABAP, PHP, Python, Ruby, SAP Developer Network, SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP TechEd, Scripting Languages, Web Dynpro, Perl, JavaScript, Java Programming, Application Server, Beginner, Beyond SAP, Business Intelligence (BI), Business Process Expert, Business Server Pages, Community Day, Emerging Technologies, Widgets [Dec. 17, 2007 10:48 AM | 20 Comments | Permalink]

The best of both worlds: Combination of wiki and forum to improve code-related problem-solving
Have you ever tried to collaborate on forum posts that include code (irregardless of whether it is Java, ABAP, PHP, etc.)? This blog describes a suggestion of combining the wiki and the forum posts to make such collaborations more efficient. Richard Hirsch in Enterprise Portal (EP), Java Programming, Perl, PHP, Python, Ranting, SAP Developer Network, Scripting Languages, Web Dynpro [Dec. 03, 2007 12:45 AM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

SDN Subscriptions - What you can do now what you couldn't before
TechEd Las Vegas is over, and as you can see, I haven't won a dime or at least a fortune that would let me retire early. That's why I am going to tell you what I did for my salary in Las Vegas... Mario Herger in ABAP, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, SAP Process Integration (PI), SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP TechEd, Visual Composer, Mobile, Master Data Management (MDM), Knowledge Management (KM), Application Server, Business Intelligence (BI), Business Server Pages, Composition Environment (CE), Enterprise Portal (EP), Service-Oriented Architecture, Integration and Certification, Java Programming, Web Dynpro [Oct. 11, 2007 12:03 PM | 14 Comments | Permalink]

majority desk - get your wiihands on!
At this year's demo jam, Dan McWeeney and I showed off a crazy little project called Majority Desk. The crowd was pumped and demo jam was a blast. Ed Herrmann in Beyond SAP, Emerging Technologies, Python, SAP Developer Network, SAP TechEd, Virtual Worlds and 3D Web, Widgets [Oct. 08, 2007 09:10 PM | 5 Comments | Permalink]

Heterogeneous Enterprise Service Consumption
This blog explains the process of getting involved in the initiative “Heterogeneous Enterprise Service Consumption” which will be kicked off at the TechEd 2007 in Munich. Goran Stoiljkovski in Emerging Technologies, Service-Oriented Architecture, Interoperability, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, SAP TechEd, Scripting Languages [Sep. 28, 2007 05:42 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Get Your Kicks with DI Commander
In this blog, I discuss different tools and methods available for manipulating data inside SAP Business One databases. Based on the discussion, I present a new tool that provides a new effective way to do massive data manipulations inside B1. The name of the tool is DI Commander. It allows you to harness the power of DI API much more easily than before, without compromising safety. Henry Nordstrom in Python, SAP Business One, Scripting Languages [Aug. 19, 2007 12:50 PM | 57 Comments | Permalink]

Open source is ... well ... open
Who will take up the challenge of the PHP RFC Connector? Nigel James in Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Scripting Languages [May. 16, 2007 05:44 AM | 5 Comments | Permalink]

Scripting Languages and SAP - Is there a room for me?
My thoughts about Scripting Languages and SAP...There's room for anybody! Alvaro Tejada Galindo in Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Scripting Languages, Ranting [May. 14, 2007 03:26 PM | 2 Comments | Permalink]

sapnwrfc for Python - To complete a hat trick
As was promised earlier - work has been done on creating the next generation Connector for Python using the new SAP NW RFCSDK. Piers Harding in Python, SAP NetWeaver Platform, Scripting Languages [May. 11, 2007 12:15 AM | 3 Comments | Permalink]

SAP NW RFCSDK - it's here!
The new SAP NetWeaver RFCSDK is now available for official download - this opens the way for supported Open Source Connectors such as sapnwrfc for Perl, and sapnwrfc for Ruby. Piers Harding in Emerging Technologies, Perl, Python, Ruby, SAP NetWeaver Platform, Scripting Languages [May. 10, 2007 02:34 AM | 8 Comments | Permalink]

Language Surprises
One of the places I go to, when I'm trying to understand what is happening in the IT World is the O'Reilly Radar. Tim often puts up charts containing data about his book sales, as a means of gauging the market, but this one took me by surprise. Piers Harding in Beyond SAP, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Scripting Languages [Mar. 06, 2007 02:44 AM | 6 Comments | Permalink]

Open Innovation Call
Promoting "SAP Netweaver and related technologies" Open Projects, I present a few ideas collected this year: Ignacio Hernández in ABAP, Java Programming, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Visual Composer, Web Dynpro [Dec. 22, 2006 12:01 PM | 17 Comments | Permalink]

Scripting Languages at TechED Amsterdam
This blog provides more information of the activities in the area of scripting languages at TechED Amsterdam Andre Labahn in Service-Oriented Architecture, Interoperability, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Scripting Languages, Community Day [Oct. 12, 2006 06:57 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Why not Python?
I was as usual bragging about Python and coaxing one of my colleagues to try it. But he said that he does not like scripting languages because there aren't IDEs which support intellisense and all the bells and whistles that strongly typed languages support. I was trying to make him understand that the power of python makes up for the type safety net. I do not want to talk about all the extra goodies that you get with scripting languages as it is has been discussed elsewhere. I wanted to present a convincing case of Python's dynamic nature and came up with an example that I thought was worth sharing with the community as well. Vagmi Mudumbai in Scripting Languages, Emerging Technologies, Python [Sep. 26, 2006 03:34 AM | 4 Comments | Permalink]

A case for Enterprise Widgets
Its Friday afternoon and you want to publish a small application to 10,000 desktops by Monday night. Oh, and all you have are a napkin sketch and two interns. Here’s the story of how we made the TechEd Schedule widget that Shai mentioned in his keynote at TechEd ’06 Las Vegas. Eric Wood in JavaScript, Emerging Technologies, Standards, Community Day, Scripting Languages, SAP TechEd, Service-Oriented Architecture, Enterprise Portal (EP), Consumer Products, Composition Environment (CE), Beyond SAP, Beginner, Ruby, Python, PHP, Perl, Widgets [Sep. 15, 2006 01:08 PM | 7 Comments | Permalink]

SAP, Scripting languages and a Tool
SAP and 'Scripting'? You might ask: What does it have to do with each other? In the past there was limited support from SAP for the 'Scripting community'. This will change now. Frank Mittag in Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Scripting Languages [Sep. 11, 2006 08:22 AM | 16 Comments | Permalink]

How about an open source scripting framework?
Tobias talked about open source ABAP applications on SDN. How about a open source scripting framework? Vagmi Mudumbai in Python, Scripting Languages [Sep. 08, 2006 04:48 AM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Scripting in a Box v0.1 patch v0.1.1
This is a required patch for v0.1 of Scripting in a Box, please download this patch. Craig Cmehil in PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, Scripting Languages, Emerging Technologies [Sep. 07, 2006 09:21 PM | 0 Comments | Permalink]

Scripting Languages at SAP TechED US
Scripting Languages will be one of the key topics for the PTU Emerging Solutions and the SDN Team at the SDN Day SDN Day and SAP TechED Las Vegas... Andre Labahn in ABAP, Community Day, Scripting Languages, SAP TechEd, Ruby, Python, PHP, Perl, Interoperability, Service-Oriented Architecture, Business Solutions, Beyond SAP, Emerging Technologies [Sep. 04, 2006 11:42 AM | 1 Comments | Permalink]

RFC SDK group opens "talks" with RFC Connector developers
After weeks of planning, talking, hoping and waiting it finally happened, I didn't say anything before as I did not want to jinx things... Craig Cmehil in Ruby, Python, PHP, Perl, SAP Developer Network, Scripting Languages, Emerging Technologies [Aug. 22, 2006 08:13 AM | 9 Comments | Permalink]

Python Developer Zones?
I was just scanning my RSS reader and came across this entry about the new "Python Developer Zone" on Yahoo! Craig Cmehil in Beyond SAP, Scripting Languages, Emerging Technologies, Python [Aug. 09, 2006 05:03 AM | 8 Comments | Permalink]

Scripting in a Box v0.1
Interested in PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby and Ruby on Rails? Tired of fighting with getting a development environment setup and not knowing which version of what to work with? Download the full editon of "Scripting in a Box" today!

Updated: June 22, please see bottom of blog entry. Craig Cmehil in Beyond SAP, Scripting Languages, Emerging Technologies, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby [Jun. 21, 2006 08:02 AM | 6 Comments | Permalink]