looking through the glass door

What is it really like working for a big 4 consultancy?
“Do it for your resume and get out”
“OK, but a bit soul destroying.”
“Great place to launch a career, .. plan to build a strong network on day one.”

What would it be like working in Silicon valley?
“An Elitist’s Playground”
“Great just isn’t good enough.”
“a fantastic place to work.”

How do their salaries compare
Google – $US $113,000
Yahoo & Microsoft – $US 106,000
Apple – $US 89,000

Just a few of the comments and salary reviews employees have left on Glassdoor a new website allowing us to look through the window and see how green the grass is.

Specialist or Generalist

This pic reminds me of my time in London cause it looks like the underground tube map. The bubble had just burst, the market was volatile, technology was fleeting and customers demanding. Do I get off at first stop and specialize in a technology that i like, running the risk of missing the needed connections. Or move on constantly reinvent and have to compete for a seat in the crowd.

Not much has changed – know everything about nothing or nothing about everything.

ABAP – what happened?

ABAP is an abbreaviation of the German word Allgemeiner Berichtsaufbereitungsprozessor if you run the phrase through babelfish and it translates to “General report preparation processor”. For a long time ABAP was seen as that a report writing language, to the uninitiated it was viewed as a lesser easy to learn language and the programmers who used it were looked down on as coders and not developers. ABAP has gone through many iterations, the biggest of which would have to be the introduction of SAP WebAS where ABAP finally broke away from being a report writing language and became the backbone to a suite of web application development platforms.

SAP TECHED 2007 LAS VEGAS (redux)

This years SAP Teched tells us to
“CONNECT. COLLABORATE. CO-INNOVATE!”

Connect, collaborate, and co-innovate with the best minds in the IT industry.

Get the knowledge, skills, and professional network needed to take advantage of SOA.

Learn how to use the power and flexibility of SAP NetWeaver to co-innovate with SAP

Inspiring I know. Before you run off to convince your boss that you should go to Vegas for a week long jolly. Enjoy
“ENTERPRISE SOA – PUT THE POWER TO WORK!”

Anti Patterns & Idioms

If you define a pattern as recognizing a good solution to a problem. Then an anti pattern could be described as not recognizing you are applying a bad solution to a problem – that is until someone points it out to you.

Every project you go on it is important to share lessons learnt.