Les Aventures de Techiemaque…

If I leave here tomorrow Would you still remember me? For I must be travelling on, now, ‘Cause there’s too many places I’ve got to see. But, if I stayed here with you, girl, Things just couldn’t be the same. ‘Cause I’m as free as a bird now, And this bird you can not change. Lord knows, I can’t change. Bye, bye, its been a sweet love. Though this feeling I can’t change. But please don’t take it badly, ‘Cause Lord knows I’m to blame. But, if I stayed here with you girl, Things just couldn’t be the same. Cause I’m as free as a bird now, And this bird you’ll never change. And this bird you can not change. Lord knows, I can’t change. Lord help me, I can’t change. – Freebird (Lynyrd Skynyrd).

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We’ve been trying to make this happen for a long time and it is finally here Fellow SAP Mentor and friend Jon Reed of jonerp.com talks to me in this Podcast about SAP MII and the very first book on it, Implementing and Configuring SAP MII,which I co-authored with Dipankar Saha of IBM, SAP MII developement skills, the experience of being a SAP Mentor, my interests: Rich Internet Applications (RIA), my passion: the SDN and BPX communities and the upcoming SAP TechEd, 2009. Hope you guys have as much fun listening to it as we had recording it

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It was early last year when Dipankar and I were approached by SAP Press to author a book on SAP MII 12.0.

From there, it has been a very enriching journey for both of us as we discovered that we had a lot more to learn, both about SAP MII as well as the art of writing a book.

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… And especially when Craig is around with his camera…

Well, this happened at BarCon08 in Bangalore, the night before SAP TechED.  After a round of drinks and Dinner at the 13th Floor, I wanted to have ice-cream and thus dragged the gang, including Craig, to a famous ice-cream parlour (Corner House) on Residency Road, which was roughly round a Kilometer from the venue of BarCon, on foot.

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Fellow SAP Mentor Jon Reed of JonERP.com who made it a point to be physically at SAP TechEd Vegas and virtually in Berlin and Bangalore, did a small virtual round table with SAP Mentors Dipankar Saha and Somnath Manna of IBM India and Abesh Bhattacharjee (yes… me  ).

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As many of you would know that I have had to dissociate myself from the ESME for personal reasons. However I had a chance to be back with the team and honored when I was provided with an opportunity to present ESME at DemoJam, SAP TechEd Bangalore along with Mrinal, a friend and a ESME member. DemoJam took place on the 12th of November, 2008.

The video shows us on the DemoJam stage with Craig hosting the event.

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I’ll be there at SAP TechEd 2008, Bangalore. Will you ?

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A couple of days back I had blogged about ESME – The Enterprise Social Messaging Experiment, about how it was initiated, who all are involved and what we are trying to build.

As Dennis Howlett mentions in his Blog on SDN, we are a group of individuals from the community who share a dream of making enterprise social messaging a problem solver for the enterprise and though we have not met, we know each other and more importantly completely trust each other.

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There has been a lot of blogs on whether Twitter like functionality fits the scope of today’s enterprise. And if so where exactly and how… But this blog is not about any of that…

This started as a seemlessly harmless question from Yojibee on Plurk on the availability of the Plurk API. The thread grew with the involvement of a lot of great guys from the community and now what we have with us is this community project called Enterprise Social Messaging Experiment.

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The registrations for SAP TechEd 2008 are already open and when I think about what an awesome event it was last year that I have still not got over, I read the TechEd blogs on SDN and check out the TechEd pics on Flickr.

That is when the bulb lit up in my head and i came up with this tiny widget which gives you slideshow of all TechEd pictures across all locations from Flickr.

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