Blogs posted July 2004

In a recent The Future is OO – Travel Back to the Past?, Klaus Meffert discussed the pros and cons of object-oriented software development. In my weblog, I will not discuss the author’s general opinion about the object-oriented programming... Read More »

How I started with SAP Web development… How I Started with SAP Web Development, Cont’d Becoming an SAP Web Developer, Part III If you’ve been following this little series I’m sure you noticed that the score at the end of... Read More »

Clean RPC without SOAP or XML-RPC? No doubt a number of you have read DJ Adams’ article Real Web Services with REST and ICF, which discusses how to create real Web Services using the ICF, REST and the power of the HTTP protocol. I wanted to... Read More »

IntroductionWhen I first started working for my current employer, Kimball International, nearly a decade ago; I can’t say that our operations were all that international. We did have a showroom in Canada and a production facility right inside... Read More »

Today we cracked the three digit ceiling: 105 SDN Members were working in the SDN Forums at the same time. Gregor Wolf remembered the promise I made in    the Truly International – first one to send me proof of triple digit... Read More »

Overview of Event Handling in HTMLB HTML/HTTP does not support the concept of server events. At the lowest level, the only building block that is available is forms in HTML, which can be submitted to a server. When a form is submitted, all input... Read More »

Real-world discrepanciesEveryone’s talking about methods and concepts helping in making the development of sofware easier and more fruitful. Design Patterns are supposed to help as well. But there seems to be a discrepancy between academical... Read More »

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 »

In October 2003, SAP and IDS Scheer made a joint press release announcing a  strategic partnership for building next generation Business Process  Management (BPM). This will cover the whole lifecycle of business  processes, including... Read More »

I still remember the excitement when the xApps team was formed and the initial slides of what we shall be doing was presented (i.e. a 30,000 feet above the ground view). Being part of the team since inception has been a technically rewarding... Read More »