After what Craig saw at CeBIT, could thought controlled gaming be right around the corner?

Season 4 Episode 12

After a couple of weeks off our podcast schedule we return to record again before several of us hit a bad travel schedule.  We hit major topics around the iPad 3 announcement, Win8 preview, and CeBIT conference. If you want a little more SAP centric topics, don’t worry. Over the next few weeks Craig and I will be recording podcasts from DKOM and Mastering SAP Technologies which promise to just be dripping with SAP only content.

• Our travel schedules mean we aren’t being all that good to the environment
• iPad 3 announcement – how much of an innovation is this really?
  • http://andrewoneverything.com/dude-its-a-laptop-you-want-not-an-ipad
• Craig goes to CeBIT
  • http://www.ubuntu.com/start-download?distro=desktop&bits=32&release=latest
  • http://www.4dforce.eu/
  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/cmehil/sets/72157629528210027/with/6959872469/
  • This has nothing to do with the podcast other than the fact Dan sent it while we were recording and we had to try and not crack up – http://i.imgur.com/NXYi6.gif
  • Video Greeting Card – http://spreengs.com
• Windows 8 Preview – http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/consumer-preview

Running Time: 56:58

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If that doesn’t say “I Love You”, I don’t know what does

Season 4 Episode 11

Warning: After several weeks of no technical problems with Pamela Call Recorder for Skype, the software has decided to go crazy once again. This podcast contains a slight skipping echo on my voice only. Unfortunately since Craig couldn’t join us this week, we didn’t get a backup recording and must post with this technical problem.  I apologize for the technical snafu but figured the only other alternative was to not post at all this week.  If anyone has suggestions how to fix this in Pamela, I’m certainly listening.

• Dice Salary Survey puts ABAP at the top of the list
• NetWeaver Release Levels – we explain the difference between NetWeaver 7.01, 7.02, 7.03, 7.10, 7.20, 7.30 and 7.31, plus talk about the future beyond NetWeaver Enhancement Packages
• Programmers’ Valentine’s Day – using the comparison between relationships and programming languages, we each share stories about our first programming loves
  • A little impromptu discussion broke out about JavaScript in the server side as used in the SAP HANA XS Engine
• Nvidia 3D Vision Glass – I give a quick review of the gift I got from my Valentine’s Sweatheart

Running Time: 53:07

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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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Season 4 Episode 6

In a very special episode of the Enterprise Geeks Podcast, we bring you the live recording from the show floor of SAP TechEd/SAPPHIRE Now 2011 in Madrid, Spain.

• Special thanks to all our podcast recording attendees from our friends at Techedge
• Recap of Innojam
• Demo Jam discussion
• Keynotes and what you’ve seen at TechEd
• Adobe announcement about Flash: ZDNet, CNet

Pictures from TechEd Madrid and the eGeeks Dinner:

Gregor Wolf’s Flickr Pictures

Thomas Jung’s Flickr Pictures

Running Time: 25:14

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Season 4 Episode 5

In response to a request for a little more Android love on the podcast, we allow our two primary Android users – Dan and Craig – lead the discussion this week.  We also touched on the upcoming TechEd Madrid and mobile application development approaches.

• Ice Cream Sandwich
  • Everything you need to know
  • No delicious Ice Cream Sandwich for Nexus One
• Apple TV Rumor
• Mobile App Development
  • jQuery Mobile
  • Phone Gap
  • iUI
• SAP TechEd Madrid
  • eGeeks Dinner – Sign Up Now!
• Battlefield 3
  • Join my Squad (if I ever get time to actually play)

Running Time: 46:54

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Will NetWeaver Gateway become the bridge between systems or the Troll under the bridge collecting tolls?

Season 4 Episode 4
This week’s lively discussion centered around NetWeaver Gateway was sparked by the excellent blog by Graham Robinson

• Dan got married!
• NetWeaver Gateway – licensing and delivery models of software in the future
  • Blog by Graham Robinson
  • Blog by Dennis Howlett
  • Blog by Jarret Pazahanick
• iOS5

Running Time: 1:06:17

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