Blogs posted July 2004

What language next? Recently – I had been talking to a good friend about what to do next with respect to programming language selection. We have both been long time Perl advocates (infact we pretty much developed an interest in it at the same... Read More »

When I first started working with SAP output forms, I was asked to develop one that crammed a great deal of item-level information into a tight amount of space.  To accomplish this task, I needed to drop the font size for some text down to... Read More »

MaxDB has a long history, not only in development but also in the support of 64-bit platforms. Contrary to some recent internet articles that suggested MaxDB is starting with 64-bit with MaxDB 7.6, the database structures were first adopted to... Read More »

In the past few weeks in SDN, there have been a number of questions on handling HTMLB events. One of the biggest frustrations was with our examples. This is a typical example: <!code>  DATA: evt TYPE REF TO... Read More »

Writing a Test Example <!code>  <%@extension name=”htmlb” prefix=”htmlb”%> <!code>  <%@extension name=”phtmlb” prefix=”phtmlb”%> <!code> ... Read More »

Yesterday Stefan    Klensch (Forum,    Weblogs)    surpassed Benny Schaich-Lebek for the first time by writing his 514th forum    post. (Today he added another 8 to 522. Benny, you... Read More »

SAP .NET Connector 2.0 is available for download as a Beta version from http://service.sap.com/connectors. As the things work fairly different from Version 1.0, here some tips to get started: – Download the ZIP and extract the MSI.–... Read More »

Not sure which version of SEM works with BW? What do you do if you have BW    and SEM on the same box? On separate boxes? To see valid combinations of SAP BI with SEM, log onto the Service    Marketplace with alias... Read More »

The SAP NetWeaver BW and    Portals Conference, sponsored by WIS Publications, will be held March 30    – April 1, 2005 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The conference will include expert-led sessions, presentation tracks,... Read More »

As a product manager, I don’t install portals every day – although I did so last week in an internal workshop: SAP Enterprise Portal 6.0 SP Stack 04 on a UNIX box. This, of course, is something that always makes me, a rather... Read More »