Comments on: Interview with SAP http://www.dangrossman.info/2006/12/18/interview-with-sap/ Entrepreneur and web developer Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:53:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Shital http://www.dangrossman.info/2006/12/18/interview-with-sap/comment-page-1/#comment-22108 Shital Mon, 07 May 2007 23:39:36 +0000 http://www.dangrossman.info/2006/12/18/interview-with-sap/#comment-22108 Hello, I am a Masters student, and I want to apply for an internship or full-time position in SAP Enterprise Portal. I am trained for the same. Could you please let me know about any positions if availbale? Thanks, Shital Hello,

I am a Masters student, and I want to apply for an internship or full-time position in SAP Enterprise Portal. I am trained for the same. Could you please let me know about any positions if availbale?

Thanks,
Shital

]]> By: Dan http://www.dangrossman.info/2006/12/18/interview-with-sap/comment-page-1/#comment-103 Dan Mon, 18 Dec 2006 22:57:53 +0000 http://www.dangrossman.info/2006/12/18/interview-with-sap/#comment-103 I probably didn't contribute to The Math Forum you used. I was there in 2005 as a software developer. The first 3 months I spent working on a new version of the software to run the Ask Dr. Math service. I had a lot of fun doing that.. Java with Struts framework, Hibernate ORM, and a pretty complex data model for what would seem a simple service. That was put aside unfinished after the lead software architect quit, I don't know if it ever made it to use. I wrote the p.erl cart / payment system for purchasing on the site, but the requirements were changing almost daily so doubt it looks the same as I left it.Other than that, most of the work I did there isn't something visible on the site... I helped with the coding and preparation needed to make most of the site available by login only instead of public when they started charging for access. I also helped with their transition from Sybase to Postgres on most of the databases. Hmm.. the only good story I have from working at TMF.. the DBA, project manager, secretary were all off. In the office were just me and two other programmers. That afternoon the hard drive crashed on one of the servers and the website went down. The Math forum is an extremely popular website so any downtime is really significant for them. Since there were no CD burners there, I ran to my apartment and brought back a Knoppix live CD to boot the server, figure out the hard drive crashed, then we spent a few hours going through boxes in the server room finding a working hard drive to get the server back up. A few hours later we figured out how to get the backups off the tapes they were stored on since the backup software didn't work and wouldn't do the restore automatically. In the meantime I set up Apache on a Dell workstation there and redirected all the site traffic to a temporary site there. Eventually we got it all back up, very late at night. I probably didn’t contribute to The Math Forum you used. I was there in 2005 as a software developer. The first 3 months I spent working on a new version of the software to run the Ask Dr. Math service. I had a lot of fun doing that.. Java with Struts framework, Hibernate ORM, and a pretty complex data model for what would seem a simple service. That was put aside unfinished after the lead software architect quit, I don’t know if it ever made it to use. I wrote the p.erl cart / payment system for purchasing on the site, but the requirements were changing almost daily so doubt it looks the same as I left it.Other than that, most of the work I did there isn’t something visible on the site… I helped with the coding and preparation needed to make most of the site available by login only instead of public when they started charging for access. I also helped with their transition from Sybase to Postgres on most of the databases.

Hmm.. the only good story I have from working at TMF.. the DBA, project manager, secretary were all off. In the office were just me and two other programmers. That afternoon the hard drive crashed on one of the servers and the website went down. The Math forum is an extremely popular website so any downtime is really significant for them.

Since there were no CD burners there, I ran to my apartment and brought back a Knoppix live CD to boot the server, figure out the hard drive crashed, then we spent a few hours going through boxes in the server room finding a working hard drive to get the server back up. A few hours later we figured out how to get the backups off the tapes they were stored on since the backup software didn’t work and wouldn’t do the restore automatically. In the meantime I set up Apache on a Dell workstation there and redirected all the site traffic to a temporary site there. Eventually we got it all back up, very late at night.

]]> By: Usamah M. Ali http://www.dangrossman.info/2006/12/18/interview-with-sap/comment-page-1/#comment-102 Usamah M. Ali Mon, 18 Dec 2006 22:31:33 +0000 http://www.dangrossman.info/2006/12/18/interview-with-sap/#comment-102 It's very nice to know the man behind The Math Forum :-) During college days, and when I was a math fanatic, I was crawling The Math Forum more than Googlebot does. Oh the good old days, now PHP & MySQL has driven me away from Riemann Hypotheses & Prime Numbers. Would you mind telling us more about the development of TMF, Dan? Anyway, it's really nice to meet you online. It’s very nice to know the man behind The Math Forum :-)

During college days, and when I was a math fanatic, I was crawling The Math Forum more than Googlebot does. Oh the good old days, now PHP & MySQL has driven me away from Riemann Hypotheses & Prime Numbers.

Would you mind telling us more about the development of TMF, Dan?

Anyway, it’s really nice to meet you online.

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