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Virtualising Lion OS X and Xcode4 on Windows 7

Ivan Femia — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 14:16:18 +0000

This blog resumes my experience in virtualising Lion OS X and Xcode4 on Windows 7 64bit. I would say that I easily achieved this objective following with this guide. My concerns were basically on performance; I configured my virtual machine as 2 double core processors with 2 GB of RAM and I was [...]

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VirtualBox: Change hard disk size

Google’s April fools day jokes

Ivan Femia — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 17:41:48 +0000

This year Google did give us only a joke on April fools day, but every team tried to enjoy us, let’s try to resume them all: Google Maps a 8-bit Have you ever imagined Google Maps in 8 bit mode that can run also on one of the most popular home console Nintendo SNES? Google did it and made it [...]

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To buzz or not to buzz?

Introduction to new SCN

Ivan Femia — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 16:02:34 +0000

Reference: http://scn.sap.com/community/about/blog/2012/03/19/introduction-to-new-scn On Saturday March 17th Sergio Ferrari organized the 3rd edition of our TechedgeGroup Inside Track (#titmil), a company event in the style of SAP Inside Track. In this event I had the possibility to present to [...]

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Volunia: a cage outside the cages

Ivan Femia — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:28:49 +0000

Yesterday, Monday 6th February, from the University of Padova, Massimo Marchiori presented his new idea of search engine: Volunia. The project started 3 years ago with the ambitious idea to be the new reference for the web search in the web 2.0 era. A great mistery was behind this project; in his [...]

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Dynamic Google Plus Circles using jQuery and CSS

Ivan Femia — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:02:59 +0000

In the last days I spent some time playing with jQuery and CSS. One of my task was to create a Google Circle effect using as much as possible the jQuery library and make it flexible. First of all we need to create a simple effect using CSS and jQuery, I don’t want to reinvent the wheel because I [...]

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SAP Mentor Outreach is now available on JQuery Mobile

Reduce winsxs directory size in Windows 7

Ivan Femia — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:45:29 +0000

One of the biggest directory in a Windows 7 (and not only) operation system is the winsxs. What is it? Winsxs, which stands for ‘Windows Side By Side’, is Windows native assembly cache. Libraries which are being by multiple applications are stored there. This feature was first introduced, in [...]

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Happy New year SCN and Happy New Excel with abap2xlsx

Ivan Femia — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 10:20:08 +0000

Dear community, it was in the far July 2011 that I gave you updates on the abap2xlsx project with the reporting of my adventures at SAP Inside Track in Chicago (blog). In the last weeks, I had the idea to write a blog and few days ago a great present by SAP Mentor Gregor Wolf to the project (I will [...]

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InnoJam Madrid 2011: and the winner is carbonTNT

Ivan Femia — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 09:30:35 +0000

Hi guys, in this blog I will report my review of the InnoJam Madrid that took place on Saturday 6th November and ended a day after (30 hours of coding later) with the victory of my team carbonTNT. Don’t you know what InnoJam is about? I will not explain here but I suggest you to watch this video [...]

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SCNotties 2011 submission

Set GMail as default mail program in Chrome

Ivan Femia — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 19:48:51 +0000

I don’t know way but in the last 2 days I could not use GMail as default program for mailto addresses, looking around I found this post in the Google support. The solution below was exactly what I needed. I report the solution if any of you may need it 1. Enable javascript handling in Chrome. [...]

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Dropdown by key or Dropdown by index, that is the question of a WDA developer

fabio.dimicco — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 23:02:25 +0000

Introduction During my experience as a Web Dynpro for ABAP developer, I often had the doubt if it was better to use the UI element DropDownByKey or its brother DropDownByIndex. In these last days, I realized that I always prefer and use the DropDownByKey, it doesn’t matter if the list [...]

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