A few weeks agoSDN Community Day Mentor Hands-On Workshop that some of the SDN Mentors had prepared for the SDN Community Day in Las Vegas. That part of the Community Day was a lot of fun and a big success, so we now have plans to offer the same session at Community Day Berlin 2008 - The Agenda as well.
The original premise of the Mentors’ Hands-On Workshop was that the best part of TechEd is the hands-on session opportunities. It is great to be able to hear an expert talk about a subject and maybe even see a demo, but nothing really compares to the value of being able to use the technology yourself and then ask questions that come to mind out of that usage. The only downside is that you can only reserve a maximum of 2 Hands-On sessions during TechEd. That is at most 8 hours of hands-on experience; assuming you pick two, four hour sessions.
So the idea is that as part of SDN Community Day you can get the opportunity to participate in an additional 4 hour hands on session that is designed by four of the SDN Community Mentors – Rich Heilman of SAP, Ed Herrmann of Colgate, Dan McWeeney of Adobe and myself. Rich, Dan and myself will be coming to Berlin to repeat this workshop there. Unfortunately Ed Herrmann can’t join us because of a conflict, but the rest of us will cover his materials.
Even if you aren’t able to come to TechEd itself, you can still come to just the SDN Community Day and get this opportunity for a hands-on session. And don’t worry if you have already registered for TechEd, but didn’t add on the community day. You can always go back and add the community day into your existing registration.
If you are already signed up to attend community day, then you just need to add your name to this wiki page to sign up for our sessions:http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/wiki?path=/display/community/sdn+day+berlin+2008.
Here is the agenda and how the 4 hours will break down:
Persistent and Service Objects – Rich Heilman
- See the latest techniques for build the data access and business logic layers in ABAP
- Preview new ABAP development tools that will be part of NetWeaver Enhancement Package 2 – released in 2009
Adobe Flex Builder – Dan McWeeney
- Install and run Adobe Flex Builder for creating Flex Components
- Learn some tricks and tips for Flex Component Development from someone who is also an ABAP developer
Web Dynpro Islands – Thomas Jung
- With the new Islands functionality in Web Dynpro, you can embed Adobe Flex Components seamlessly into Web Dynpro
- We will take one of the Flex Components that Dan detailed in the previous hour and embed it within Web Dynpro ABAP
Floorplan Manager for Web Dynpro ABAP – Ed Herrmann
- Learn how to use the new Floorplan Manager to create consistent user interfaces
- Take the Web Dynpro components from the previous exercise (which contains the Flex Component from the exercise before that) and wrap them altogether with the business logic from the very first session to create one finished application
All the steps that I discussed above spread out over the 4 hours will result in the application that you see in this video:
The session will be held in one of the official SAP TechEd hands-on rooms and we will use one of the TechEd ABAP backend systems for the workshop exercises. You still probably want to bring your own laptop as well. As part of Dan’s Adobe Flex introduction session, you will have the opportunity to install Flex Builder on your laptop and build a simple Flex Component.
You can also download the source code and exerices hand-out session materials in advance. We won't have printed copies of the hand-out materials, so if you want to have printouts, you will have to bring your own.
Just remember to sign up on the WIKI to reserve a space in the room. The number of laptops and seats will be limited. In Las Vegas we filled the room and still had to turn people away when we reach room capacity.
And don’t forget that Community Day isn’t all work. In addition to spending the day networking and attending educational sessions like this one; there is also a fun evening event. In Las Vegas there were several different types of fun and games as well as food and drinks and a live band. My favorite part was the Nintendo WII Rock Band game:
