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

Will Blue Ruby strike an ABAP Chord?

This episode may be short on show notes, but it’s packed full of content. Listen in as hosts Ed Herrmann and Thomas Jung expand on and continue their ongoing discussion about ABAP and SAP Java. Other topics include Blue Ruby, SAP preview edition and subscription cloud talk, and all kinds of other fun tidbits.

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

Running Time: 73 minutes

Talking Points

1. 00:15 – Random Chit Chat
   • Why we love the eGheads
   • A fan gives Thomas blue Bawls
   • Ed promotes G33K B33R
   • Show us your eGhead pride and send us your photos, wallpapers, etc.
2. 06:36 – More on ABAP & Java
   • Corrections from last week’s episode
   • Dissociative identity disorder
   • Follow up from last week’s comments
3. 39:26 – What will Blue Ruby bring to the table?
4. 51:10 – Could the SAP Preview and Subscription Systems be moved to the cloud?
5. 60:47 – Closing thoughts and ramblings
   • Battlestar Galactica final review by Thomas
   • Gotta love Netflix
   • What should Ed buy to replace his broken Zune? Vote here for iPod Touch, Nano, or Classic
   • What did you do during Earth Hour?

Well last month in the International PHP magazine it was a featured review! Check it out!

The biggest changes to the package where the additions of Ruby and Ruby on Rails.

There has been a steady increase in the number of PHP blogs available on SDN though and the forum has been quite active as well. Unfortunately I’ve not been as active as I hoped and therefore I’ve been trying to rearrange my schedule and workload a bit to compensate so I can actually start developing.

This blog here was actually intended to show more development with SAP and PHP but has instead starting to turn into a more information service of what is happening regarding PHP and SAP. I’m at odds though as both are very interesting topics and I happen to be in a interesting position to provide on both.

In fact if you’d like to hear first hand what is happening then join me on June 28th, 2006, Wednesday, between 20:00 – 21:00 CET (Berlin Time) for a online conversation (more info) where we talk about where things are going and get feedback from the growing community. This is the first one I’ve planned so I’m hoping the turn out is good and we get some good feedback, but to be honest as the topic of “PHP and SAP” is just starting to take hold I’ll be happy with 5 people on the call.

I’m hoping by the end of the week I’ll have another update for you especially in regards to one or two PHP projects I’ve been working on…