We didn’t win the competition, but internally we felt as winners.
Just seeing a dream come true being presented on that stage, was a win in itself to me.

This was filmed from the audience:

You can also watch a replay of the whole DemoJam here.

Among the new features are:
• Full control drag and drop
• Sort inside the value help
• Arange columns within the value help
• Customize the screen while it runs (user customization)
• Formatted text editor, in this example for header texts (bold, italic, font-size, list for instance)
• Row-repeated output for the output of multiple addresses
• Slider to rate, the colour changes while sliding (in this example, to rate the customer)
• Pop-ins (in this example on item level of the sales order) This allows you to expand an area without having to navigate to another screen
• A new UI element: ICFExecute. To launch arbitrary applications on the desktop.
• Flash Islands

I cannot wait to get my hands on this, and I hope the Las Vegas sessions will be made available on SDN.
For those of us, who have worked with the SAP-Adobe integration for a while, these Flex components, which look like native UI elements, will take our work to a new level.

By the way, SAP built the AJAX framwork from scratch..

It made me think of how I am when confronted with more than 3 options.
..or let’s say 5. (I like to believe I am getting better the older I get)

In this one week, we moved from loosely discussing frameworks, design and implementation on wikis and Google groups, to submitting a 6 minute video for the Demo Jam at SAP TechEd.

To be part of this team has been an amazing experience, and I have gained much from it, both on a professional and on a personal level.

I will write more about my experience in the next couple of days, I just wanted to present our video for now.

Further ESME blogs on SDN:
Dennis Howlett
Abesh Bhattacharjee

Slowly Facebook IS turning into the new Myspace.
I have been reading several blogposts about people being spammed on Facebook lately, and then today it came around knocking on my door as well.

I received a friends request from a guy calling himself Ryan Attwell .. never heard of him.
I went to check out his profile and noticed that his pictures was part of his public profile. Strange, I thought.

Then I took a closer look at the pictures and found that he had 13 albums of “designer” handbags. Strange again, I thought. This guy does not look like someone who would put his all his designer handbags on display.

But then when I took a closer look at the pictures I noticed that they had an URL written all over them .. which, surprise surprise!, would take me to a site selling fake designer stuff.

I assume that Zuckerberg’s world reign will never happen by the way things are going.
Spam is no longer just a part of the oh-so-lovely 3rd party applications like Funwall and Superwall, but is now also part of the Facebook platform itself.
The fun ended before it really begun..

Nikon and AMD have cooperated on this picture of ‘The Last Supper’, the famous painting by Leonardo da Vinci.

The picture has 16.118.035.591 pixels (172181 x 93611), and consists of 1677 single shots.
You can zoom in on any part of the image to see the details.

It is amazing to see what 700 years can do to a painting.

You can visit the homepage here.

McLaren Technology Centre in Surrey

If you would like to know how this office, and five other very cool places to work, look like from the inside, check out the story here.

The six places are:
McLaren Technology Centre, Surrey UK
Googleplex, California USA
Canary Wharf, London UK
Red Bull, London UK
Williams Group, Grand Rapids USA
VW Phaeton Plant, Dresden Germany

Quote:
“If you do not want to receive email communications from us, you must provide us with the email address we should not contact.”
…??

These fotos show Richard Scarry’s Best Book Ever, 1963 vs. 1991 editions - with revisions.
There are a few intersting differences, for instance were many old-fashioned gender roles changed in the 1991 edition.

Link to the photos on Flickr