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

Talking Points

1. 01:00 – Welcome Guest Host Dan McWeeney
2. 01:15 – Ed Changes Diapers
3. 04:00 – Main Topic – HTML5 & Browser Plug-Ins
   • 04:31 Apple, the iPad, and the Flash Player debate
   • 05:00 Apple and Adobe Take the Debate Public
   • 05:40 Google Gears Adds to the Debate
   • 07:45 HTML5 Spec Implementation
   • 09:15 Video Codecs and Licenses
   • 11:00 Advertising in HTML5 – Harder to Block Than Flash Based?
   • 12:40 Flash on Mobile – Interaction Event Problems?
   • 14:00 Flash Mobile Can Work – Android
   • 19:00 Could Internet Explorer’s Lack of HTML5 Keep Plug-Ins Alive?
   • 22:00 SAP’s Plans for HTML5 and Plug-Ins
   • 24:00 NetWeaver Business Client and Windows-Only Support
   • 26:45 Platform Testing
4. 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).
5. 36:20 – Internet Connected TVs
6. 37:00 – Win 7 Mobile Platform
7. 37:50 - PS3/PSP Integration
8. 38:00 - SAP Management Changes
9. 46:20 – BW 7.20 Ramp-Up Canceled in Favor of 7.30 Ramp-Up in Q3/Q4
10. 48:30 – ABAP 7.02 Correction Close
11. 49:20 – OnDemand BI
12. 54:30 – Upcoming Events: Mastering SAP Technologies Sydney and ASUG/Sapphire

Do constant upgrades make customers weary?

Listen in on this special grouchy, sleep deprived edition of the eGeeks podcast, as Ed and Thomas try to keep it together after a rough week of pulling all-nighters. Even after fighting through the exhaustion, there are still many very good topics discussed including new features in NetWeaver Enhancement Package 2, upcoming SAP Teched sessions, and the SAP Inside Track conference.

If you have questions, suggestions, or topic ideas for future episodes, give us a shout here. Enjoy!

Episode photo by Jsome1 shared under Creative Commons Attrubtion License.

Running Time: 48 minutes

Talking Points

1. 00:15 – Random Chit Chat
   • Love for the eGheads
   • Sleep Deprivation
   • Freaky 3D Ultrasounds and Kuato from Totall Recall — can you tell the difference?
2. 03:52 – Get the early scoop on NetWeaver 7.02 coming soon
3. 09:12 – Overview of the ABAP sessions at ASUG / Sapphire
4. 14:34 – TechEd Session Internal Proposals for ABAP – give Thomas your opinions
5. 22:26 – SAP Inside Track London
   • What is SAP Inside Track
   • Why would you want to go…because it’s “where all the cool geeks hang out…what else can you say?”
   • The Great Certification Debate – Dennis’ Interview with Michael Koch, Owen Pettiford, and Martin Gillet
   • Survey from SAP Mentor Michael Koch
6. 30:10 – Blue Ruby mentor webinar and the slides here
7. 35:00 – Cote and Willis chime in on the open cloud manifesto
8. 36:00 – How do you navigate SDN to get to the Adobe Flash SDN Pages?
9. 41:27 – Closing Thoughts
   • Somnath and Vijay Twitter Comments – come to the Dark Side
   • Phonesaber
   • Colgate MaxFresh Jams
   • Speed Stick Pro – What’s your Pit Type

The Enterprise Geeks join in on the April Fool's fun

Join us in this special April Fool’s episode as Ed Herrmann and Thomas Jung do a round up on the best technology pranks and gags of the week. Also included are a number of other topics ranging from paintball and bawls to ASUG and Twitter.

If you have questions, suggestions, or topic ideas for future episodes, give us a shout here. Enjoy!

Running Time: 76 minutes

Talking Points

1. 00:30 – April Fool’s Chit Chat
   • eGheads like to paintball
   • Enterprise Geeks are April Fools – caught on by Dennis on ZDNet
   • Is points a good reward system to measure quality or quantity?
   • ThinkGeek as always leads the fun with their cool products
   • Gmail Autopilot for April Fool’s
2. 24:32 – Polestar Innovation Challenge update
3. 32:04 – Around the technology horn
   • SAP Enterprise Social Networking Prototype
   • Is Twitter killing RSS?
   • Google acquiring Twitter?
   • Vishal on Open Cloud Manifesto and Dennis’ response and another good article here
   • New pages for Adobe Flash on SDN
4. 64:17 – Wrappin’ it up
   • Don’t miss the eGeeks at the 2009 ASUG / Sapphire conference
   • Upcoming guests Jim Spath and Ryan Stewart
   • FMR 24 Hour Marathon has been rescheduled for April 23rd 9am EST – April 24th 9am EST
   • Ed follows the advice from the eGheads and buys the 32 GB iPod Touch
   • Ed reviews Colgate Max Fresh with Mouthwash Beads toothpaste

If so you have come to the right place. My hope is that one of you other ABAP Freaks out there can win the InnoCentive Challenge and although I can’t give you any code to help out with projects I can give you some hints and knowledge to get you started.

In this episode of the ABAP Freak Show we will look at the configuration and coding steps necessary to call REST based web services. In particular we will look at the extra steps necessary for working with REST based services over HTTPS. So even if you aren’t interest in working with Polestar OnDemand, you can still learn about HTTPS certificates, proxy settings in the ICM, HTTP destination setup and coding against the CL_HTTP_CLIENT ABAP class.

Does SAP have their head in the cloud yet?

Continuing with the second part of our fascinating episode with special guest Michael Coté from Redmonk, we discuss more great topics such as mobile strategy in the enterprise, cloud computing, and other fun stuff. This is a must listen for anyone wanting to understand the basics of the who, what, when, and whys of the cloud. If you haven’t already, be sure to listen to check out the first part too.

If you have questions, suggestions, or topic ideas for future episodes, give us a shout here. Enjoy!

Running Time: 38 minutes

Talking Points

1. 00:10 – RIA, mobile, and enterprise
   • SAP and Sybase
   • NetWeaver Mobile, AjaxWeaver, and other existing SAP mobile technologies
   • Mobile devices are changing the game, and people want them to be mini-computers
   • Business can no longer discount iPhone as a toy
   • Is mobile enabling the return of consumers actually paying for software?
2. 10:50 – The 3 layer cloud cake
   • IaaS – Infrastructure as a Service and why Amazon Web Services is the de facto standard
   • PaaS – Platform as a Service
   • SaaS – Software as a Service
3. 19:00 – The enterprise cloud
   • SAP and IBM offer joint cloud migration
   • SAP is working on the glue that allows the ABAP and Java stacks run entirely in the cloud
4. 22:22 – Coté does a promo spot for the EnterpriseGeeks
5. 23:26 – SXSW – South by Southwest
   • The three types of nerds
   • Cote records a special message for the eGheads to use as management justification to attend SXSW
6. 28:00 – Closing thoughts and ramblings
   • Texas Social Media Awards
   • EnterpriseGeeks drink Scotch, Bourbon, and Rum
   • Greenmonk with Tom Raftery
   • Final Review on Watchmen
   • Get the Watchmen book, Tales of the Black Freighter, or the Complete Motion Comic
   • Thomas and Ed – the birthday boyz