… those developers at SAP truly must be. Viewing table T616 in the Data Dictionary just revealed the following:
Looks like there have been some “SAPsame Street” fans at work…
Category Archives: Blogosphere
Bar Codes – Human Readable?
Last Saturday I watched “Wetten Dass…?”, a famous German TV show in which candidates from all walks of life come in and bet to perform sometimes quite unbelievable things. I shall never forget the team that managed to place a full-size digger onto 4 beer glasses (beer glasses? how much more German can a bet get?).
This weekend 2 kids came along and managed to identify 80 products by their bar codes, which made me smile, as I’ve done a lot of work around SAP Smartform barcode outputs in the past and feel familiar with the different bar code flavours and whether to print the “Human Readable” (the actual number under the barcode) or not. Well, these two kids managed without it.
IBM and SAP collaboration
IBM and SAP seem to plan new collaborations…
Reading this was a bit of a trip down memory lane, as I remember working on a PO approval solution back in 1999 which used Lotus Notes as its messaging platform. A SAP/Notes connector enabled you to see SAP tables within Notes. I am not saying Atlantic is old wine in new bottles, but these press annoucements make it sound like as if there has never been any SAP/Notes integration before.
After last week’s rumoured Lotus Notes client for the iPhone, is IBM going for it now?
Sun buys MySQL
2 very different takes on Sun’s aquisition of MySQL, albeit from different angles. Jeff Nolan’s (via Nigel) and Greenbaum.
interesting blogs & wikis
Just spent a bit of time on SDN and found the following blogs and wikis interesting and helpful:
- Thomas Weiss’ and his contributions on the Enhancement Framework
- Sergio Ferrari: Plug Business and play music
- Thomas Jung’s sessions on how to update your SAP Netweaver skills
SearchSAP and opinions
This is by no means an attempt to gain attention or something, but if comments are being deleted then something’s gone wrong. I hope that this is just a technical issue, although it doesn’t seem like it.
The background: I read Jon Reed’s and Matt Danielson’s comments about the state of ABAP and whether it’s Dead or Alive. All in all, I thought their posts (as usual) are rather a remix of what SAPSearch has been going on and on about for a long time now – thereby on this particular topic completely ignoring what else is been reported in the Blogsphere and on SDN. Maybe SearchSAP is feeling the crunch on traffic & ad revenue now that SDN membership is growing bigger and bigger?
So I posted a critical comment to what the SearchSAP Editorial Team had to say on Nov 15th – only to find my comment being deleted yesterday (Nov 19th). Now I am 100% sure the comment did appear on the site. I posted another comment on the 19th asking what happened to my original comment – only to find out 24hrs later that my comment has dissapeared again. They either don’t to do criticism over there at SearchSAP or (hopefully) get back and tell me it’s a technical hitch.