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Time to register for FITC Amsterdam 2010

Some headlines from the FITC Website:

• Two full days and nights of events, plus one day of optional pre-festival workshops
• Over 50 presentations and panels covering the Creative, Technical, and Business aspects of Flash and digital media
• Over 500 attendees from around the globe
• Over 50 internationally renowned design and technology presenters
• Includes three FITC evening events

The RIA Hacker Night 2009 will be held in connection with SAP TechED 2009 in Phoenix, Vienna or Bangalore. The sponsors this year will be: Adobe, RedMonk and SAPPress

Read more here and/or join here :-)

If you are doing Web development using SAP WebDynpro in Netweaver – you might find the fact that you cannot use Javascript in the UI a little bit annoying… so what do you do if you would like to use e.g. Google Analytics to monitor the usage of your WebDynpro application…? in order to do this you need to add a small Javascripts snippet to your webpages, and this is not possible in WebDynpro… or…. (btw: the same Javascript idea applies to other kinds of third party app’s.. not only Google apps)

Well.. I ran into a couple of links – and it gave me a good idea, that might help you embed Google Analytics.

1. First of all your development platform need to support SAP Flash Islands (min. SAP NetWeaver 7.0 EhP1)
2. Then you need to goto Google Analytics Tracking for Adobe Flash – in order to get the analytics.swc file
3. Create a Google Analytics account in order to get an account-id for tracking
4. Create a new SAP Flash Island application (click here to see an SAP Flash Island template)- and add the analytics.swc to the Flex build path/Library path – the Island should not display much… maybe just a company logo etc.
5. The new SAP Flash Island application should take an url as an input parameter and pass this url to Google Analytics using the Google Analytics Tracking tool for Flash/Flex (see example) using the command: ”

   tracker.trackPageview( the input url parameter );"

6. Place the new SAP Flash Island application on each of the WebDynpro pages you want to track (the visual size of the Island could but small or covered by a company log – you just need it somewhere on the page) – and pass the actual url of the WebDynpro Application parameter to the Island. You actually just use SAP Flash Island to call Google Analytics, so from a display point of view the output of the Island is not that interesting in this example
7. And you will be able to start collecting the WebDynpro Usage in Google Analytics
8. Remember to check the terms of service

Happy programming…

Time to register for FITC Amsterdam 2009

A few lines from the FITC website:
“FITC has held 17 events over 7 years, through 9 cities and 4 countries, with over 700 presentations and over 10,000 attendees. From Flash to motion design, to design and creative inspiration, to other technologies like Flex, Air and processing, FITC events stand as unique and exciting events that educate, challenge, and inspire. We began as a Flash festival, and we’ve kept Flash at the core but have also continued to add more and more diverse presentations over the years, ever expanding the programming of our events.”