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Drupal 4.7.0 Release Candidate 3

Drupal 4.7.0 RC3 is here. The final release would be released within this month or early next month. Get it to try and find bugs as many as possible. Drupal is the most active community project. There are lots of contributors around the world. Everyone are all volunteers.

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PHP SAPRFC: Learning by Example

After the hobby goodies of Craig has been published last week, you might be interesting to try programming SAP in PHP using SAPRFC. Are you ABAPer? Are you Javaer? Are you PHPer? In the world of SAP, ABAPers are the must to customize SAP R/3. To develop a web application, ABAP/4 is not the best choice. Java and PHP are better. Anyway, from the past 4 years, SAP has officially supported Java interfacing to SAP R/3 through JCo. So some ABAPers have moved themselves to Java. At least they know how to program a Java-based web application using SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio.

Updated SAP RFC for Perl, Python, and Ruby

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

.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.

Scripting the SAP

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.