And that's about as political as we get...

Season 4 Episode 10

We have  a wide range of topics this week as we come about as close to political as we care to when we discuss Newt Gingrich and his plans to establish a permanent moon base.  We also talk about new self guided bullets and what it must be like to write software for them.  There’s also the little matter of the Facebook IPO and the big news that Craig is now back working for SAP.

• Catching Up
  • Rich wearing cowboy hat and boots?
  • Craig is back at SAP!
  • DKOM and TechEd preparations already – voice your opinion on the naming of the Custom Development track at TechEd
  • Movie tips: Rent Runaway instead of Apollo 18
• Facebook IPO
  • Can they continue to grow profits while avoiding the creepy factor with their advertising?
  • How dependent is Facebook on content providers like Zinga?
  • Are social media platforms mature to the point that a new disruptor couldn’t enter the market?
• Newt Gingrich and his plans for the Moon - http://news.yahoo.com/newt-gingrich-says-cash-prizes-spur-space-technology-110131695–abc-news.html
  • NASA and the value of the maned spaceflight
  • Should we go back to the moon?
  • Did we go to the moon in the first place?
• Self guided Bullets - http://news.yahoo.com/sandia-labs-engineers-create-self-guided-bullet-161745833.html
  • Who wants to debug the software on these things?

Running Time: 60:41

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That's one path to Geek Fitness

Season 4 Episode 9

In the spirit of New Years’ resolutions, we focus on the hot topic of how fellow eGeeks can get/stay in shape. Dan and I share some of our tips as well as some of the tools we use.  Please feel free to share your own tips in the comment section.

Craig also found an interesting article from mid-2011 which talks about the top gadgets of the year so far.  We use the power of hindsight to comment on (ridicule) these top choices.

• Geek Fitness
  • Tips to get Started
  • My Fitness Pal
  • Runkeeper
• The Best Gadgets of 2011 – a retrospective of where they are today
  • Original Article from PC World

Running Time: 48:04

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Maybe some day we will do a live podcast from CES

Season 4 Episode 8

Back from a nice, long holiday break; we jump right into the tick of things with a recap of some of the cool stuff we got over the holidays as well as look ahead to 2012 thanks to the Consumer Electronics Show.  I also share my thoughts and experiences from my first two weeks working with SAP HANA.

• A little holiday recap
  • LEGOs have come a far way
  • Star Wars The Old Republic – Join Ed and myself on the Shii-Cho server and perhaps we could even start an Enterprise Geeks Guild.
• The International Consumer Electronics Show
  • 3D TVs in decline?
  • The year of the ultraportable?
  • Tablet overload?
  • Hardware is dead, long live Software
• HANA Application Development
  • XS Engine

Running Time: 52:53

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Who needs book on the topic of dating a geek when we already have a website.

Season 4 Episode 7

As we get ready to head out the door to start our Holiday break, we gather a list of timely topics not the least of which is the discussion around the delay of the SCN Upgrade.

• SCN Upgrade Delay
  • Mark Yolton’s Blogs: Announce Delay and More Details
  • Martin English’s thoughts on the subject
  • Dennis Howlett’sViews
  • Craig Cmehil’s Blog on the topic
• SAP buys Success Factors – Too many links to post, so I’m doing the lazy thing and linking directly to the Google Search
• Influencer Summit – Still Lazy, so Google Search again
• Tom moves to the HANA Product Management team
• Craig’s Facebook App
• A Girl’s Guide to Dating a Geek

Running Time: 54:11

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With the upcoming SCN upgrade to Jive, is SAP on the Jive Express?

Season 4 Episode 6

This episode represents a post-Thanksgiving cornucopia of topics and news; including Dan’s take on what all the recent Adobe announcements might mean for Flash/Flex developers.

• Adobe News about Flash Player, Flex, Blaze DS
  • Dan’s views on the Adobe news and the real impact to developers
  • A little hint of the HTML5/Cloud based goodness Dan will be working on at Adobe in the future
• Jive IPO
• Jive is the technical platform for the new version of SCN (which goes live Monday December 12th)
• SAP Events
  • SAP Inside Track Washington DC
  • SAP Inside Track India
  • SAP Inside Track Istanbul
  • ASUG Developer Tools Days
• eGeek Holiday Gift Ideas
  • Macbook Pro (and yes Ed has one of these now – giving hell the next time you see him)
  • Kindle Fire
  • Star Wars The Old Republic
  • Think Geek (too many ideas to list individually)

Running Time: 56:10

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