In Austria there is a famous song by Wolfgang Ambros which goes like this “Skiiiiiiifoan, Skiiiiiifoan, Skifoan ist das leiwandste, was ma si nur vorstö’n kann”  (“skiing is the greatest thing you can think of”). That’s true, skiing is a really great hobby and sport, but well, the environmental impact is quite bad. But there’s something which is nearly as bad: the source code of this ancient piece of software that you have to take…

Did you ever wonder, why companies want to have rockstar developer? Dylan Beattie was inspired by this tweet and thought, that everyone should be able to be a rockstar programmer. So he invented the programming language Rockstar. You can see the story about it here or here. Dylan Beattie is not only a great programmer but also a good musician, so he composed the FizzBuzz-Song. This is how the FizzBuzz-program might sound like: Dylan Beattie Talks…

What’s a Regular Expression (RegEx)? A regular expression, known as RegEx, defines a search pattern for character strings using syntactical rules. A familiar example for the usage of a regular expression describes the search in texts for numbers, characters, special characters or complete terms. The regular expression serves as pattern to find a definite character string within the text. Furthermore, regular expressions are used for validations e.g. to validate email addresses or credit card numbers….

Edwin from the ABAPforum.com developed a report where you can convert a jpg file to ASCII I tried the report and it turns out quite good! This is the original This is the ASCII transformation   How? I think the main work is done by class cl_fxs_image_processor. If you are interested in how the shading works, have a look at the Codingtrain video.

Some time ago Jupp startet a little ABAP “poem” at ABAPforum.com: types: type(20) type c. types: of type table of type. constants: value value ‘-‘. parameters: split type type. data table type of. data into value value. data at type type. split split at into into table table. split at at into into table table. Stutter Contest That startet a contest of how good and how many repeating words can be put into a program….

Do you know transaction SREPO? No? Then listen closely…! SREPO is a former SAP internal transaction that compares the code base of one system with the code base of another system. There are variety of options on how to select the objects to be compared. Of course you will have to define an RFC-destination of the system you want to compare the objects with. When executing the transaction, you will see a list of objects…

One of my teachers in professional school said (about 1993; Linux Torvalds startet programming Linux in 1991…): Unix is the most expensive computer game. If you’re still not satisfied, you can install SAP R/3 upon. That was the first time I heard of SAP as a game. Of course it is everything else then a game, but a professional ERP system. Never the less, I find it more interesting to learn things the fun way….

Today I would like to present you some websites and newsletters that constantly help me doing my daily job, providing information on tricky parts or things that I do know very little about. German language I am aware that there will be a lot of german websites. I decided to mention them, because they all provide valuable information about different topics. You can use the translation feature of your favorite browser to translate the content….

I am fascinated by platforms where you can solve code and compete with other developers. There are some online platforms where you can solve tasks in many different programming languages and in different difficulty levels. CodinGame CodeSignal (former CodeFights.com) Codocado …and some more, I guess. On these platforms you can register and solve more or less common programming tasks in different programming languages. So far ABAP was not possible, because you needed an SAP-System to…

Do you sometimes feel uncomfortable in meetings whether it’s online or offline? Maybe you are in a meeting with people you don’t know? Or people you know, but you don’t know, why this person is in the meeting right now? Maybe you don’t know, how long the meeting exactly will take or when there will be any breaks? Maybe, you need to do an urgent call but you don’t know, when you can get away…