by Thomas Jung on March 1, 2010 at 12:44 pm
Will the battle of HTML5 vs. Browser Plug-Ins be like this:
Or More Like This:
This week we welcome guest co-host Dan McWeeney filling in for Ed. Ed is out of the office because his wife just gave birth to their first child. Since Dan works for Adobe and works in the Adobe Flash/Flex world, we thought it would be the perfect podcast to dive into the hot topic of HTML5 verses Browser Plug-Ins (like Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight).
There has been a lot of debate lately (sparked largely by Apple and their refusal to have the Adobe Flash Plug-in on the iPhone/iPad) about exactly what the future role of Browser Plug-Ins will be given the advances that the next version of the HTML specification promises to bring. In this podcast both Dan and I provide our thoughts on the topic.
Dearest eGheads, we need your show ideas. If you have questions, suggestions, or topic ideas for future episodes, give us a shout here. Enjoy!
Running Time: 59 minutes
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Talking Points
- 01:00 – Welcome Guest Host Dan McWeeney
- 01:15 – Ed Changes Diapers
- 04:00 – Main Topic – HTML5 & Browser Plug-Ins
- 28:00 – Apple and their 40 Billion Cash On Hand – Who Will They Buy? (at the time of the podcast recording I forgot that through Pixar, Steve Jobs picked up quite a bit of control at Disney/ABC/Marvel. Perhaps Apple already indirectly has the control in Hollywood I thought they were looking for).
- 36:20 – Internet Connected TVs
- 37:00 – Win 7 Mobile Platform
- 37:50 - PS3/PSP Integration
- 38:00 - SAP Management Changes
- 46:20 – BW 7.20 Ramp-Up Canceled in Favor of 7.30 Ramp-Up in Q3/Q4
- 48:30 – ABAP 7.02 Correction Close
- 49:20 – OnDemand BI
- 54:30 – Upcoming Events: Mastering SAP Technologies Sydney and ASUG/Sapphire
by Ed Herrmann on February 2, 2010 at 4:17 pm
The Enterprise Geeks love gifts and free stuff, so this is a special shout out and thanks to fellow eGhead Matt Harding for putting together the Enterprise Geeks theme song. You can check out some of Matt’s other music on his MySpace page. The music for the eGeeks theme song was taken from his original track “Damn Ugly”, which is pretty Damn Funny.
Some other eGheads such as Thomas Jung, Gregor Wolf, and Graham Robinson have already mentioned using this as intro music for their sessions at various tech events. Now these are eGheads with style!
Cheers to you, Mr. Harding!
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by Craig Cmehil on December 28, 2009 at 3:09 am
This morning as I sat down at my desk in the Walldorf SAP offices (probably being only a handful of people on the entire floor) I opened up the pending blog posts in the SDN queue and came across this one – Why I’m active on SDN.
Always curious I decided to read on and see why this person was active. It was a clear message as well “it’s about sharing knowledge” and Micky went on to mention some of the folks involved.
Here it goes, my personal ‘heroes’ when it comes down to sharing their knowledge and making me profit from it. In other words, teaching others how to evolve their (ABAP) skills in random order:
Naimesh Patel who has a very nice website of its own which is really worth visiting once in a while, especially for people who like to take a dive into ABAP OO. But it was on SDN where I first ‘met’ him and got to appreciate his knowledge. Obviously I’m not the only one, since often his anwers or website are used as reference when answering a post on one of the ABAP forums. The same actually goes for the next person who’s answers I often like to read, Marcin Pciak. He also knows his way around ABAP OO, and is an early adopter of the ‘new’ way to ABAP programming. Also let’s not forget J@y , a®s, Clemens Li, Max Bianchi, and Rob Burbank, Thomas Zloch and last but definitely not least Uwe Schieferstein. All of them have been around for quite some time now and they really tend to give the relevant (correct) answers from which I for one, am still learning. Like I said, I’m sure I’m leaving out several fellow SDN’ers that should be part of this list as well, so sorry for that.
For ABAP performance and tuning the list is not quite that long, but on the other hand, I’m pretty sure I’m not leaving out that many contributors. Top of the list is, without a doubt, Siegfried Boes, who not only has strong performance knowledge, but also has a great sense of humor when answering or correcting other peoples answers. Although sometimes I get the idea that he is getting a bit tired (and he probably should) of all the people who think they know what they’re doing but obviously don’t (just think about the FAE vs Joins discussion). But, whenever I’m looking for some pointers, he is the one to search for. And second in line of heires is probably Hermann Gahm.
Almost done here (time to get back to the Christmas Dinner), but not before mentioning that being an ‘active’ member on SDN (or only ‘just’ an active reader), does not only help you to learn and evolve your skills, it also boldly takes you where a lot of ‘us’ have already gone before, namely to the EG-heads.
It was on SDN that I first got to hear about enterprise geeks via ‘Shameless plug for the Enterprise Geeks Podcast’. We all know (and who knows, maybe even love) Thomas Jung, Ed Herrmann, Graig Cmehil, Dan McWeeny and Rich Heilman who all have been of great influence to this community. And through these ‘geeks’, I for one, got one of the best professional advices ever: Read, read and read some more. I think it was from Ed Herrmann on one of the pod-casts, so thanks for that.
Well, that’s just about it on ‘Why I’m active on SCN’. Thanks for reading and by all means do leave comments (plus or minus).
Seeing that the true spirit of SDN has not been lost I’ve decided it was worth braving the cold weather to come into the office today!
by Craig Cmehil on November 1, 2009 at 4:48 pm
Our egHeads are the absolute best! I got a message shortly after SAP TechEd Phoenix from John Astill and then these photos!
JohnA69 | TweetPhoto and JohnA69 | TweetPhoto
And since Tweetphoto does not allow an easy way to “embed” a photo to share it I did a scrape (sorry John)…
ADDED BY ewH
John’s smurf customization skills rock. Here are some pics of the ewH and ABAP freak smurfs:
