It’s that time of year…

The German summer was sort of a let-down (again) and fall has silenty taken its place. It’s mid of October and as such it’s about time to write the annual wrap-up about what’s been hot and not at this year’s SAP TechEd. For a pleasant change (or is my memory playing tricks on me on this one) this time around Berlin was the first location to host THE event for the more technical-oriented people within the SAP Community. (Maybe we should rotate them from now on?)

As stated in my last TechEd related blog, I missed out in 2009 so in affect I was really excited to be able to go this year (special thanks to my management for their support!) The outlook was indeed promising. Not only was I allowed to go; even better – as my own session was scheduled to be held in both Europe and US – I actually get to go to the oversea event as well! Double the excitement! :)

SAP Mentor Monday

So, there they were…. my five minutes of fame, so to speak. Well, a littlebit more than that actually. At the end it took me around 13 minutes to briefly introduce myself plus to do a short demo on scalable service interfaces. Did I overdo it? I have to admit that I didn’t do a timed test-run, which Otto rightly wondered about… (guess I read 5+8 minutes instead of 5-8 minutes).

Anyway, so here it goes – my self-reflection upon my introduction at the last SAP Mentor Monday webinar.

If you haven’t watched the recording yet (what could have been more important? ;))  - you can do so following this link: https://sap.na.pgiconnect.com/p37466139

Introduction

Oh wow… word is on the street! Mark Finnern announced the new SAP Mentors:Welcome New SAP Mentors Fall 2010.

And well, … my name is on that list, and while I’ve known about the nomination for months back I have kept silent on the fact. You know, I’m that nerdy to consider a nomination for SAP Mentors like being nominated for playing in the national team – just better! Being around the SAP Community Network for 3 years now, I’ve seeing this initiative lift off and really forming a tribe that makes a change – simply through their multiplier capabilities. As such, being nominated is already a very positive sign of recognition and something that makes it legitimate to tap your own shoulder for a moment. ;) Still, it just didn’t feel right to talk about it before, I mean – it’s just a story if you really make it, kind of. Know what I mean?

Introduction

I had a controversial discussion with my fellow office room mate Thorsten the other day about ‘blogging’ and its implications, which I wanted to share with you. The pivot point of this discussion was about whether or not it is a ‘good idea’ of exposing too many information about oneself to public. While that is certainly an important aspect of blogging, I would really like to put this nuance aside for a minute and talk about my motivation to blog first (and then get back to that particular aspect.)

Introduction

The second article of my WordPress Series will focus on WordPress plugins. There are plenty of great quality ad-ons available, maybe too many (#appstoresyndrom), so the problem is more to find the good stuff and tell it apart from the bad stuff. :/ A good starting point to search for plugins is always the WordPress Plugin Directory (which is also integrated in the admin panel.)

One last important remark, only install plugins from trusted and well-known sources and keep them updated. So,  without further ado I’ll simply list the plug-ins I use (and what for), what they are good for and where you can find them, cool? Here we go…