marcf.be
I bring open-source to the world of ABAP
Bootstrapping 💥 apm - A Package Manager for ABAP 💥
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Marc
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Great to see. Thanks for sharing 🙏
How about everytime someone uses abapGit code, Microsoft should donate $1 to our project? 😉
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A step in the right direction 😀
Now upper heading smaller and blog title bigger (esp on small devices) and we’re in good shape
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Nice. Meine Frau ist im April 280km von Porto gelaufen. Plan oder schon unterwegs?
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His “bad” code block example contains emojis and the “good” ones don’t. 😂
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SAP is saving millions by using open source everywhere but i have yet to see a report of any financial support for these projects.
If you want a thriving plugin ecosystem, commit to it and support people who make the free feature enhancements (that you for some reason didn’t code yourself)
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It’s the unhealthy side of plugin systems. Why would anyone invest into building plugins when a bit later big daddy says “thanks for that idea”?
Worse if code is copied without compensation (even if allowed by license), esp if daddy makes billions in profit. I’m not saying this happened here…
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We come to the site for the content and a chance to connect with the author
Not much else matters 😀
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Examples: medium and substack.
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- Navigation area on top
- breadcrumbs below (optional)
- h1 title of the blog
- date & author
- blog content (one col. on mobile, two col. w/ sidebar on wider displays)
- anything else below blog content
Same for q&a
New users start on home or subject pages which contain graphics and more text.
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Definitely a very attractive product. I will have to see the price/pricing model before I jump for joy
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I miss the incredible first guidance documents by Roland, how-to guides from Serge or webinars and q&a with Matt
The ecosystem lost tons of experts who shared and educated freely
From a community of trusted advisors to anonymous online content
The car still drives but it's not leading the race.
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+1.
Oh like a forum 😀
See question, click, type answer, click. Done.
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Agree. Online is cheaper but same problem on a different scale
SAP sets the price. Purchasing power parity (PPP) would make it better. Some think that means less profit but imho it leads to higher adoption, less issues, and therefore higher profits.
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I'm not an Eclipse fan. VSCode (actually Cursor, and quite a few extensions) is the way.
But for ABAP, you can find me in SAPGUI. I just don't need anything more fancy to get the job done.
Side note: There's more to ABAP than code. Many of other object types and customizing. AI doesn't help
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You get what you pay for...
I don't remember how many online courses I signed up for (or even paid), started but never completed. Alone in front of a laptop. No one to ask anything.
But every classroom training or TechEd hands-on, I finished the exercises, got my q&a, and built new connections.
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A personal example:
At one TechEd, I had a session about BW Accelerator. Standing room only. Maybe 1000 people.
The same session was in LV, Barcelona, and Bangalore.
That's how you make a message "stick".
Whatever, time and resources we poured into preparing this event, we got back 100x.
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These event are fantastic... if you're into the specific topics.
Also your team is doing what you can and over delivering at that for sure!
But that's peanuts compared to good ol' SAP TechEd...
That was inspiring knowledge transfer that reached masses
Example:
community.sap.com/t5/technolog...
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Over the years, sap’s culture got infiltrated via new hires and acquisitions. It’s almost unrecognizable compared to 90s and 00s.
We can only try to carry some of it forward. Non-SAP events like ABAPconf give me hope that not all is lost.
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The similarity to @sapcommunity.bsky.social is striking.
The future are paid member-only communities:
- Keeps AI out
- Personal connections to experts
- Fun in-person events
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+1
EWM is not my area (my warehouses are for data), but the session showed nicely how much classic ABAP and SAPGUI still play a big role for good ol’ business apps.
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same here
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It should be 100x. Let’s keep publishing #open-source 👍
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There’s certainly an industry or LoB flavour of EA. And there’s the “cross-everything” architect who comes from a technology point of view (or a cross industry topic like data warehousing).
You can’t be all of it. Just be clear where you come from when talking to customers.
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Only humans care about whitespace
yaml: hold my 🍺
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Nice! Personal connections matter
Looks like there could be many more events in North America.
Anything planned for Toronto?
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let's see. usability is certainly a big issue. At least, it sounds like the direction of improvements is correct.
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The order which they were released in is the “real Star Wars experience” which needs to be passed on to next generations 😛 🙌
She lives in a peaceful bubble. No need to pop that already 🫧
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Can’t wait to do it all over again when our daughter is a bit older. But then it which order? 🤔
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I’m just the cheerleader here. it might be helpful for the project if you document such case or the challenges a bit (GH issue).
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Still feels like magic to do all this in ABAP and get a UI that looks and feels like it came from a big web project 🪄 🎉