No more smiles

No more smiles in ATP. Why SAP why?

I'm using the wrong APO

First this post opened my eyes. Maybe I was using the wrong APO. Then Google sent me the answer on an adsense link (I'm both amazed and scared on how Google makes these guesses). I should be using APO reef!

Quickies

From searchSAP a very useful tip to find BADIs (quick instructions: break on SXV_GET_CLIF_BY_NAME, use the TA and check the name in EXIT_NAME when it stops).

I have to highlight this comment posted by Zoltan with a finding in the BOP source code. I won't say more, you must check it :-)

In the same spirit, this post by Nigel James has a funny finding on CRM source.

SDN Pirates

This video by some of the SDN team members is way ahead (original SDN post here).

One million and counting

Just a small note (pun) to celebrate OSS having reached 1000000 notes.




Image done with the cool spell with flickr tool.

ATP fun

I always suspected that APO ATP was something special. And I don't mean the technology, I mean the people behind the technology. See for example, the first comment in the BOP code:



They are inviting us to some kind of psychedelic party, isn't it?

And check the configuration table of check modes. See the smile? Extreme isn't it? I mean, putting a check mode 666 or 069 would be wild, but putting a :-) is from a different universe.



And we have ABAP code that smiles!



This is the coolest of APO teams (and maybe they also have the best pot in SAPland :-)

Music Playing: Vampyrus Lesbos, Sexadelic Dance Party

There are few

So if FI consultants are called FICO, I guess APO consultants are called APOCO. And APOCO kind of reads like "there are few" in portuguese.

Moment of nonsense courtesy of Super Bock.

Happy 2006!

May 2006 bring us many new and exciting APO projects. And beer. Preferably beer.

Perl Periodic Table of Operators

Amazing the perl periodic table of operatores. Any takers for an ABAP version? Well, to be honest, ABAP has a decent number of operators. But on the other hand, I wouldn't like to be the guy maintaining the language parser code (although I would love to read the comments on the file, it must be full of ##$#@$ words ;-)

Big Ball of Mud

Although many coders don't care about software engineering patterns, all know the big ball of mud pattern for sure. But can you tell the difference between the keep it working pattern and the sweeping it under the rug pattern ? Go and find out ... :o)