Coté's People Over Process » SAPTechEd08

Enterprise RIA and SAP Community Update

cote — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:49:49 +0000

While at SAP TechEd 2008 this week, I grabbed Craig Cmehil for a quick overview of what’s been going on the SAP Community over the past year. He tells us about:

The evolution of the SDN Club House, a separate room set aside at TechEd for people to meet, hang out in, and get good coffee
The rising interest in using RIA in SAP-land, diving into some quick examples of what people are using it for beyond charts and graphs
The Process First book
How the SDN point program is used to donate money to the UN

Disclosure: SAP is a client and paid for my travel and hotel to SAP TechEd this year.

The Making of ESME & A Peek at ESME Code

cote — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:34:15 +0000

In this three part interview/screencast combo, we talk with Dennis Howlett, Darren Hague, and David Pollak about their work on ESME. Dennis and David spend time talking about how ESME came to be and their involvement, while Darren gives a peek at the code-base by showing us how he added search to ESME.

If you’d like a larger version, click the full-screen button on the viewer above.

For a demo of ESME in action and more info, check out the original demo video referred to in a recent post of mine

Thanks to Dennis, Darren, and David for coming together quickly to record their segments!

Disclosure: SAP is a client and sponsored the above video.

RIA Weekly 19 – RIA Hacker Night, Google Chrome, Silverlight in the field, Wikis as platforms

cote — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:58:18 +0000

While I was away on vacation, James was good enough to record an RIA Weekly episode with SAP’s Craig Cmehil.

Download the episode directly here, or subscribe to the RIA Weekly RSS feed for automatic downloads of each episode.

James and Craig start out talking about the upcoming SAP TechEd RIA hacker night (sponsored by RedMonk, among others). They then discuss Google Chrome and Craig’s down-beat view on it, along with App Engine. James asks Craig about Silverlight uses he’s seen in the field, and then they get into talking about wikis used as development platforms. Finally, they wrap-up talking about how RIAs have been used to make applications feel more human and collaborative.

Disclosure: SAP is a client, as are Adobe and Microsoft. See the RedMonk client list for other clients mentioned.