Beware! SAP RFC for various scripting languages has been released new version.

• SAP:Rfc 1.42 for Perl
• SAP:Rfc 0.16 for Ruby or via RAA

.As I reviewed  in previous post, Google has just  it in . Well, I have more detail of review.

• I got some trouble to create new calendars. There was no error message so I tried it again and again. After 10 times, I saw all 10 calendars appear on the left side. So I have to delete 9 calendars.

One month ago,  has been discovered and then hided again. Now it’s back as . Thanks Slashdot and  to point me to the site. At the first glance, Google Calendar is very similar to Gmail. Same theme same style and also same speed. Google Calendar is extremely fast. I forget that everything I saw are on Firefox. Let me list what I found.

SAP is one of the most biggest player in ERP market. It has its own language called ABAP/4. Since naturally, SAP R/3, the main product line, is 3-tier architecture, says database, server, and client, you it also has its own client aka SAP GUI. However, the world has changed to web so SAP pushed lots of effort to provide programming interface in popular languages; Java and .NET. IMHO, Java and .NET are only suitable for large enterprise and they absolutely consume resources. You need big machine to run Java and .NET. By the way, the user’s requirements are many more simpler. They just want a simple web interface to back-office data, some of them are in DBMS and some of them are in SAP R/3. SAP Enterprise Portal is too big for this situation. PHP is just enough.

This year is a big year for grid computing. After so long waiting more than 2 years, grid technology has been commercialized successfully and all of us could see significant impacts in a few months. I have just seen 2 interesting press news.

• Crosswalk launches iGrid Storage System

According to the official announcement, Steven expected that RC2 would be the last release candidate. Anyway, I didn’t upgrade howforge.com to RC1 yet so the plan is to upgrade to the official 4.7.0 when it is available in next few weeks.

To help Drupal development, I will upgrade my test instance running in VMware to make sure it works. Go to get it right now at http://drupal.org/files/projects/drupal-4.7.0-rc2.tar.gz.