Blogs posted July 2015

It looks like someone with quite some experience tinkering with Arduino’s and the likes decided to sit down on a rainy sunday afternoon to write Santa a wishlist with everything he would like to see in the next Micro Controller Unit. However,... Read More »

It seems that everywhere you look…we are all striving to find meaning in our lives.  Each of us wants to feel like we are doing something worthwhile, making a difference, helping the world run better.   Over the last few weeks... Read More »

Students representing five universities met at the HanaHaus for a public screening of Sandy Smolan’s timely documentary “The Human Face of Big Data” (The Promise and Perils of Growing a Plantetary Nervous System on Wednesday July... Read More »

In the past year or so, I have presented at various occasions on how to create visualization extensions for SAP Lumira, and all the examples that I demonstrated so far were based on D3. Needless to say, D3 is extremely powerful and flexible, but... Read More »

There is a known issue about the PowerDesigner 16.5.5 Glossary usage where the customer has 1000’s of Terms and the Autocompletion turned on which causes the product to hang. This has been reported to Engineering and is currently being... Read More »

Over the course of eight days, several of us coming from SAP’s University Alliances and d.Lab were invited to work with Eastside College Prep School students on a Design Thinking Workshop.  Coming from teams in which design thinking... Read More »

If you are a fan of college basketball, you are familiar with the “glue guy” concept. These aren’t the stars or NBA first picks… but they are the foundation of any great college team and without them, the teams fall apart.... Read More »

On July 29th and 30th, the Notre Dame Initiative for Global Development (NDIGD) hosted their annual Corporate Impact Forum. The event, “Accessing Talent in the developing World, and in Your Company,” was held on the University of Notre... Read More »

Over the past six months we have been hard at work designing and developing a brand new supportability platform for SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform.  This product is the SAP BI Platform Support Tool version 2.0 which is an evolution and... Read More »

At the NCPBUG conference this year, at the end of one of the sessions, I believe it was Bruce that talked about getting active in the PowerBuilder section of SCN.  Prior to the event, I had visited SCN, but never added any content… ... Read More »