Blogs posted February 2004

There is much I love about the new EP60 infrastructure but there are still a few areas that continue to frustrate and confuse me. So here is my wish list in no certain order: 1. Implementation and support of Single Signon to the Portal without... Read More »

Helping your portal community log in to your portal starts by providing your portal’s URL, which can in some cases be a very long string quite difficult to memorize. A very handy way of making your portal address “stick” is to... Read More »

One of the things I like about weblogs is discovering new stuff that others blog about. So I’d like to start sharing some of the things I’ve discovered in my recent reading, too. Sometimes you come across a new idea and think... Read More »

There’s been a lot of back and forth between IBM and Sun about the Java Community Process, Eclipse and ‘Open Sourcing’ Java. In the lastest exchange of Open Letters (a phenomenon that seems to be catching on as quickly as web... Read More »

Nobody ever said it will be easy. The change to NetWeaver  is a shift in paradigm and those are the once that give you the biggest  headache. It’s just human how many people try to solve to adjust the model in  their head to... Read More »

To give you the chance to get more familiar with the new forum functionality, we added a Try SCN Features. You can try out how the watches are working. What happens if you reply to an    answer? Can you delete a post, once it is... Read More »

No one likes to get spam, so we set up the forum subscriptions or watches, as they are called now, very cautiously. If you are in a forum and click on the “watch this” button, this forum will be added to your watch list. No e-mails will... Read More »

There are times when you read something and it makes your days. A recent FOSDEM, and small OSS Notes Browser Hack by DJ Adams was such a thing. He mentioned how he has made a small hack to read SAP Notes in an effective manner. He did it on the... Read More »

Tomorrow morning I’m off to Brussels for FOSDEM – the Free and Open Source Software Developers’ Meeting. Some people might wonder what this has to do with SAP, but don’t forget that lots of people (including yours truly)... Read More »

Dynamic portal roles? Mmmmm now there’s a thought….or at least a thought I thought to myself….huh?. Ok Follow me here…. Today while pouring through all available EP documentation I could get my grubby hands on for the... Read More »