Personal collective of ideas, thoughts and notes
These were my SAP TechEd (which includes Demojam) ideas for 2011:
A couple of months ago, we had an emergency meeting with our process control engineers concerned by the announcement of the “Stuxnet” virus, which targeted Siemens PLC’s. For those of you who don’t know what a PLC is, it’s essentially a PC used in industrial operations to control machinery on a production line, AC Systems, elevators and even used in amusement park rides, to name a few. Unlike a regular PC with a couple inputs (mouse/keyboard etc.) and outputs (display), generally PLC’s have hundreds of real-time input and output possibilities and often control physical objects like motors, actuators, hydraulics and solenoids. The target of the virus has not been confirmed, but after much speculation it was thought that it was targeting Irans nuclear power program. In a nut shell this virus has the ability to change process parameters and possibly cause major havoc. (Imagine overriding the temperature cut off controls in a reactor?).
This was my first introduction post to the SAP Community back in 2010. It was a great relationship and I met a ton of wonderful folks in the enterprise space. In terms of opportunity it was probably the equivalent of Github in more recent times.
So, since it’s my first blog here on SDN I decided that I would share some of my background and where I come from, where I am, and, where I hope to be some day.
Lets start at the beginning, I was born in a small town called East London, South Africa in 1980, attended a couple local schools and found my interest for computers digging through left over PC components at my fathers business. Since putting the components together did not quite represent Jonny from the movie “Short Circuit”, my interested turned to software programming at the tender age of 13, which happened accidentally. In my pursuit for i386 memory I purchased a copy of “Computer Shopper” magazine which included Visual Basic 3.0 – along with a few tutorials. From there it was a downward spiral.
In 2007 I was really interested in shooting video and loved the creative process, angles and technology. With DSLR’s having HD video, and the ability to use nice photography lenses for video really had my attention. This was a “short” film I made over a weekend using a new camera at the time.
This was a fun project using a Arduino, a sliding rail and belt to pull a sled with a DSLR on it for taking long exposure photography, video or long exposures. This was mounted on a Tripod for some additional stability and flexibility.
Here is the Code: Link
TODO: Photos/Footage
LCD Menu/Options
A short creative clip using different lenses, a slider and DSLR.
Overview:
A highlevel view of why companies should build their infratructure around ESA and what the future holds for SAP 2.0
Page 1: Examples of open arcitechure (Facebook, twitter, XML, EDI, FTP, SAP forums etc.)
– Heard this morning about computing in the cloud, just one aspect of Web 2.0
– Web 2.0 is not tangible but rather a openess of communications, systems and people, people willing to share
Page 2: What is SAP SOA, what are the fundamentals been around a good few years, but have not come across many people who say, you know what we have a 10 year plan to go down this road using this set of specifications or servers and this SAP system. That is the great thing about building a SOA environment, is that it doesnt really matter whats on either end of the telephone or even what language they are speaking in, its in a way heterogenous.
More camera experiments 🙂
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