I found another great item from the SDN Weblogs on how to use AJAX with to create a simple BSP application that returns the user records from R/3. A very cool example. In fact I am getting so use to AJAX style applications (Gmail, Google Maps etc) that non AJAX applications are a pain. ThisContinue reading “AJAX and SAP”
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Coldplay XY a copy controlled CD
Last week end I purchased Coldplay’s new album XY and I have just gone to import into iTunes and move onto my iPod when I noticed a small note on the front of the CD case. “Copy Controlled CD” Not the easiest warning to see, it is in a small dark green font on aContinue reading “Coldplay XY a copy controlled CD”
SAP Workflow tips & hints
One for the SAP folks out there. I came across a post within the SAP Developer Network Weblogs today on tips for developing workflows (reg required I think) by Alan Rickayzen. Over the last 8 years, thats right 8 years the SAP Workflow User Group has had an email list running and over that timeContinue reading “SAP Workflow tips & hints”
2005 Workforce Technologies Survey
The Cedar group are running their 8th annual survey of workfacre technologies trends and activities. This year they are focusing on several new areas:- This year we expand the survey to focus more deeply on emerging strategic human capital management applications, along with our prior focus on self service and portals. We also included questionsContinue reading “2005 Workforce Technologies Survey”
RSS and Microsoft
Over the weekend there was a fundamental change in the technology landscape that we all work in. At Gnomedex Microsoft announced that they are building support for RSS into Lornhorn, the next major release of the Windows OS. Lognhorn is due to go into beta testing late this year and with RSS tightly integrated intoContinue reading “RSS and Microsoft”
Kids and the balance between life and technology
Slashdot has a short post on a new father questioning the balance between real life and technology and points to a blog post from Families and Technology on Nature-Deficit Disorder. In following the links and the comments it certainly opens your eyes to a raft of issues and possibilities. The site referenced in Slashdot isContinue reading “Kids and the balance between life and technology”
Social reputation and authority
Happened to be browsing Feedburner today and found an interesting post in their blog about a new API. The Feed Awareness API looks very interesting and seems to already have support from some of the feed reader software. The best way to describe it is to quote the Feedburner site. Feed Awareness describes the extentContinue reading “Social reputation and authority”
Multiple posts and del.icio.us
Sorry for the multiple link posts, just me trying to get my daily del.icio.us links posting. As with many people I come across lots of great links and so I am beginning to play with either publishing a daily listing here or building my very own linkblog. If I post a daily listing here IContinue reading “Multiple posts and del.icio.us”
Yahoo! and blo.gs comments James?
I wonder what James thinks about Yahoo! buying and blo.gs (the ping server)? Are we seeing the start of a rationalisation within the blog search/regular search market? Will Google take Technorati? Hmmm, we live in interesting times.
Is “peer production” the “long tail”?
(Via Dubs.) This post is a bit vague and more a snapshot of ideas than anything else, but hey it is my blog. In Business Week a Yale Law School professor, Yochai Benkler, has put together a paper on the changing nature of our economy that is being fuelled by the Internet and cheap computingContinue reading “Is “peer production” the “long tail”?”
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