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.

Polestar - Prepare to Qualify

Listen to this fun episode as hosts Ed Herrmann & Thomas Jung just shoot the breeze on a mix of topics ranging from hot SAP issues to laid back, general geekiness. They also throw down a polestar challenge to all of the fellow eGheads.

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

Running Time: 56 minutes

Talking Points

1. Geeks vs. Nerds
2. Comments discussion on last week’s podcast
   • Business Process Expert is to Functional Configurer same as Solution Architect is to Code Monkey
   • Where do these roles fit into an Enterprise project team structure?
   • The journey begins for the agile waterfall
3. Welcome New SAP Mentors
4. SAP Launches Online Resource for Academic Community
5. SAP on Twitter – Big Pimpin’?
6. Netweaver BI is back to the future with BW
7. Innocentive Polestar Challenge
8. Check out my new eGeek laptop skin from skinit
9. Brief talk about SAP Sapphire 2009?
10. eGhead of the month award goes to Abesh for his cool egeek widgets
11. New eGeek swag available
12. Welcome New SAP Mentors – redux
13. Geeks getting excited about Watchmen
14. SAP sustainability
15. Atlassian‘s Jeffrey Walker kicks cancer in the ass