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…

When it comes to SAP-Mentor Paul Hardy, you can be sure that you will read something funny, but even serious – and a little bit more words than usual… And after I have searched for the editable SALV, I found a lot of blogs to that topic. Be prepared… Background One of the most used tools in the SAP ecosystem might be the ALV (ALV = SAP List Viewer) . It comes in various disguises:…

The Coding Train is a collection of learning videos and community interaction founded by Daniel Schiffman. Dan has a wonderful humoruos and enteratining way to explain all kind of computer related things. There are mainly two channels: Tracks Challenges Tracks In the Tracks section Dan describes and explains all kind of things so that you can learn how to do it by yourself. His main intention is to teach you, how to code. He uses…

The second ABAPConf is coming!! The completely free and online conference about ABAP starts today at 8:45 CET. There will be three channels about very interesting topics held by well known people of the SAP universe. If you have any appointments, meetings or other obligations: CANCEL THEM!! I promise that you will not be disappointed! The talks are in german and english language. KPI’s 2022 2021 History The ABAPConf event was founded by Sören Schlegel…

Wait. What? A lazy dev is a good dev? Why is that? Let me explain: Laziness in the context of ABAP development means not doing things manually and not doing too much. Why? It is problematic for several reasons: Could you find yourself in the abstract formulations? No? Do you know what I want to explain to you? Not yet? Let me help you… Dominik Panzer Picture by Leonardo.Ai

Specialist books are awesome. You get a lot of knowledge for a fair price. Even though 70 Euros seem to be quite expensive for a book, the price is justified. It takes a lot of time to write a book. As a reader you expect nothing but perfection. Perfection is hard to achieve. Reading a specialists book is quite hard because the content is very detailed. If you are familiar with most of the content,…

I do not think that there is any other discussion in the field of ABAP where people are more emotional than the discussion if Hungarian Notation should be used or not. In 2019 SAP started the Clean Code Initiative on github where they officially state that hungarian notation should not be used anymore. Clean Code is a programming paradigm with a lot of topics: readability clarification how to use naming design principles and many more…