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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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Season 4 Episode 3
We start off the week looking back on the life and impact of Steve Jobs; not just in the tech world, but also in other areas.

• Remembering Steve Jobs
  • Pixar/Disney Connection
  • Biography
• Let’s Talk iPhone
  • iPhone 4S
  • iOS5
  • Star Trek Communicator = Siri?
• Falling Skies
• OOW
  • Dennis Howlett
  • http://peopleprocesstech.com/2011/10/05/oracle-sap-sticks-and-stones-my-break-my-bones/
  • http://www.forbes.com/sites/sap/2011/10/03/oracle-president-safra-catz-suffers-sap-hallucinations-2/
• Amazon Fire

Running Time: 1:06:31

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