TechEd Berlin 2010 Tuesday (The Spork Chronicles)

JimSpath · ‎10-12-2010

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Here's my notes, comments, photos, tweets, videos, and a bunch of rambling comments on the first full official day of SAP TechEd EMEA Berlin 2010.

Last night, on the way out of the conference center (Messe Sud), I saw Dieter Krieger, Gunther Schmalzhof and someone else.

When I got to the second hotel in Berlin, there was a room foul up, a network foul up, I got no breakfast and no coffee (my own fault, later remedied in the Global Communications Center). Oh, and I forgot to charge the MP3 player.

I made the S3 train, barely, no numbers on the side. The signs inside said which stop we were in, not till we were moving did "S3 Spandau" appear. Think I got travel to the convention center right the second, er, third time.

See photos 1 and 2 below.

Session 11:00

This was:

ALM276 * How to Find Waste in Custom Code (Reserved)

I was almost late, as the room was changed since I downloaded my agenda last week. The idea seemed to be a custom program to find custom code, by sifting through code to find similarities.

There are (per the presenters) 3 types of custom code, sort of the good, the bad and the ugly.

added value
unused custom code
necessary non-value add

The goal of the program suite is to

optimize
eliminate
replace

"We can reduced it [sic]. Today"

Custom code compared to modification (? not just Z)

Years ago the advice was to clone SAP code + make changes. "Ha ha - not anymore." their words, not mine.

While in the class, I got a tweet from Sergio Ferrari (@SergioFerrari)

@jspath55 together with Ivan I released this http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/ABAP/Clone+hunter

So, this open source code seems to be the genesis for the "Patent Pending" SAP code, which is invisible to a casual viewer.

Reference: Simple ABAP Clone Hunter

Google Code: http://code.google.com/p/abapclonehunter/

The specified item was not found.

http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/~hzz1vs7

Added by Ivan Femia , last edited by Ivan Femia on Aug 20, 2010
Labels:
clone, hunter, abap, upgrade EDIT

Sergio Ferrari, colleague of mine and SAP mentor, suggested to me to have a look to the function module 'RS_COMPARE_WORDS_SIMILAR';it is

Back to class...

Copies of "future" code will have enhancement spots commented out.
Deactivates the hooks.
Never copy anything after 6.0
Make modifications only.

Error message:

ED800 the source is protected. see explanation in long text. diagnosis: The desired source is protected by SAP because changing it could cause system errors.

"Hope enhancement spots is the last iteration of modification finders (LOL)" - their quote, not mine.

See Photo 3

This seems a useful tool for the designated task. Speed and efficiency are yet to be discovered, not to mention availability.

Session 12:30

Julius Bussche - Security Hacker Lunch Standing room only.

See Photo 4

Session 1:00

EXP333 SAP CI and Sentilla – Bringing Sustainability to the Data Center

http://www.sentilla.com/

SLD Bridge
Business Objects
Carbon Impact on Demand
COIL in Palto Alto
Consumption / Cost / Peak Demand
Axel Saleck
Joe Polastre
Vcenter telemetry
BI for data center

Wikipedia DC - Tampa Florida (photo)

See Photos 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9.

Photo 9 is the most interesting to me, showing a Wikipedia data center energy use chart.

I saw Doug Hay, of Evenful Management, and we chatted about Australia a bit.

Break - Blogger area

Oliver Kohl / Darren Hague - video, see below.

chef - open source code

domain specific language

"recipes"

#SAPTechEd Innovation Weekend in #Berlin verpasst? Hier eine gute Zusammenfassung von @jspath55 http://spr.ly/6011GJ7 #innowe10

(Am I in trouble?)

Session - 4:00 PM

sapbydesign.com
MS visual studio
MS silverlight

That's about all I can say about that. I left early (and it started late) to get to my next session.

Break - Blogger area

iPad has no USB - copy only via wireless / ethernet?

Photo 10 and 11 - Mentors chatting with Vishal

Around then, I did an SAP Mentor elevator speech, but at mens' room sink when someone asked me what the shirt was for. I think my 30 seconds came out OK.

Linda Bartolus talked about water jug sanitary concerns in Europe, where apparently, despite high environmental awareness, the use of drinking water in bulk is frowned on. I guess the office water cooler hasn't caught on here.

Session - 4:45 PM

Gunther / Dieter
Adaptive Computing controller morphing to: Landscape Management Software"

Thursday 9:30 - Virtual Reality session

Session - 6:00 PM

The SCNotties. Blogged about them here, though there are videos below.

original agenda plan

Session	Description	Time
EVENT1	Keynote Featuring Vishal Sikka, Member of the SAP Executive Board Leading Technology and Innovation	9:00 AM
ALM105 *	Why Sustainability is IT's Next Big Thing	11:00 AM
ALM276 *	How to Find Waste in Custom Code (Reserved)
EXP341 *	Security Hacker Lunch	12:30 PM
EXP333	SAP CI and Sentilla – Bringing Sustainability to the Data Center	1:00 PM
LUNCH
EXP181 *	SAP Custom Code Management	2:00 PM
EXP187 *	Meet the experts of the Green IT Community	2:00 PM
ALM209 *	Modern Network Technologies for SAP Applications	2:15 PM
EXP296 *	System Landscape Governance: Discuss about measurements to reduce system landscape complexity.	2:30 PM
EXP324 *	Management of a complex SAP landscape on vSphere	2:30 PM
	- blogging -
	Cloud Strategy	4:00 PM
ALM208	Adaptive Computing Virtualization; Overview, Landscape Considerations, Use Cases, and Ramp-Up Experience	4:45 PM
EXP541	SAP Community Video Awards	6:00 PM
EVENT2	Demo Jam	7:00 PM

Missed these (need to look for replays, and/or view slides):

ALM105
ALM209
EXP324

Also stopped at our database and hardware partner booths. Might want to co-present with hardware partner at ASUG 2010. The timing and location did not work for this TechEd.