DJ Adams

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  1. Using @capire modules from GitHub Packages

    Here's how to access and use the @capire namespaced modules that reside in the NPM registry which is part of GitHub Packages.

  2. CDS source formatting and readability

    Embracing a modern approach to source code formatting for human-centric modelling in CAP

  3. Upcoming talks in autumn 2025

    I'm writing this mostly to organise myself and get my preparations in order!

  4. Auto formatting extensionless Bash scripts in Neovim

    Here's what I did to make the combination of the Bash language server and shfmt work with Editorconfig settings for Bash script files that don't have extensions.

  5. Neovim configuration for file and module navigation in CDS models

    In this post I describe how I extended my Lua-based Neovim configuration for CDS filetypes to improve navigation to referenced files and modules.

  6. Excluding specific diagnostics in Neovim

    Here's what I did to be able to filter out certain diagnostic messages in Neovim.

  7. A reCAP intro to the cds REPL

    Here's a summary of my talk on the cds REPL at this year's reCAP event.

  8. A modern and clean Neovim setup for CAP Node.js - configuration and diagnostics

    In this post I describe my re-worked basic setup for working with CAP Node.js in Neovim, focusing on the configuration and digging into the LSP based diagnostic facilities.

  9. Editing Markdown in a Neovim environment

    Here are some notes I made when digging into my tools for editing Markdown source.

  10. Point free coding and function composition

    In this post I explore and show examples of the concepts of point free coding, of chains of functions through which data flows, and of function composition.

  11. Adjusting the preview width in Telescope's horizontal picker

    Here's how I adjusted the width of the preview window in Telescope's horizontal picker.

  12. FP, function chains and CAP model loading

    Understanding functional programming approaches, no matter how trivial, can help in other areas. Here I explain how being comfortable with function chains helped in working out why a required (but unused) service was being loaded into the overall CDS model in a CAP project.

  13. Array.prototype.reduce and the optional initial value

    Today I learned about the subtlety of the optional initialValue parameter for the Array prototype's reduce method in JavaScript.

  14. Functional programming resources

    I've created quite a bit of FP related content in the past but it's somewhat scattered across different platforms and in different formats and I can't remember what or where it all is. So this is a meta post in which I point to all the resources (that I can remember that) I've created on the topic.

  15. How I run executables in containers

    Here's a quick post explaining how I might typically containerise an executable. This is in the context of my aim to not "pollute" my base OS (at the bare metal level) with any installs, as far as I can, as well as to remain platform independent and abstract.

  16. Level up your CAP skills by learning how to use the cds REPL

    These are notes I wrote for my talk at SAP Inside Track Madrid on 20 March 2025. I wrote them partly to think about what I wanted to say, and partly to share the info in written form too. Note that the idea is to introduce the concepts and show some basic examples for cds REPL "initiates". Nothing too exotic.

  17. Migrating GitHub issue based URL bookmarks to wallabag

    In this post I outline how I migrated my collection of reading list bookmarks, stored as issues in a GitHub repo, to wallabag which I'm now self-hosting.

  18. TASC Notes - Part 9

    These are the notes summarising what was covered in The Art and Science of CAP part 9, one episode in a mini series with Daniel Hutzel to explore the philosophy, the background, the technology history and layers that support and inform the SAP Cloud Application Programming Model.

  19. TASC Notes - Part 8

    These are the notes summarising what was covered in The Art and Science of CAP part 8, one episode in a mini series with Daniel Hutzel to explore the philosophy, the background, the technology history and layers that support and inform the SAP Cloud Application Programming Model.

  20. TASC Notes - Part 7

    These are the notes summarising what was covered in The Art and Science of CAP part 7, one episode in a mini series with Daniel Hutzel to explore the philosophy, the background, the technology history and layers that support and inform the SAP Cloud Application Programming Model.

  21. CAP Node.js plugins - part 3 - writing our own

    This blog post accompanies part 3 of a three part series where we explore the CDS Plugin mechanism in CAP Node.js to find out how it works. In part 1 we looked at the plugin mechanism itself and how it worked. In part 2 we used the cds REPL to start our CAP service running and to introspect it. In this part we'll use what we learned and discovered in the first two parts to write our own plugin.

  22. CAP Node.js plugins - part 2 - using the REPL

    This blog post accompanies part 2 of a three part video series where we explore the CDS Plugin mechanism in CAP Node.js to find out how it works. In part 1 we looked at the plugin mechanism itself and how it worked. In this part we use the cds REPL to start our CAP service running and to explore it - to introspect it.

  23. CAP Node.js Plugins

  24. TASC Notes - Part 6

  25. Functions as first class citizens in SICP Lecture 1A

  26. TASC Notes - Part 5

  27. TASC Notes - Part 4

  28. The elements of programming with respect to CDL and SICP

  29. The Art and Science of CAP

  30. TASC Notes - Part 3

  31. TASC Notes - Part 2

  32. Creating the new Tech Aloud intro and outro music

  33. Flattening the hierarchy with mixins

  34. Five reasons to use CAP

  35. Separating concerns and focusing on the important stuff

  36. Restricting access via facets with masked elements

  37. Keeping things simple in domain modelling with CDS

  38. Immutable layers, file deletion and image size in Docker

  39. CAP Node.js plugins - part 1 - how things work

  40. TASC Notes - Part 1

  41. Setting up a cache server for apt packages

  42. New source for LXD images on Crostini

  43. Using lazydocker with SSH-based remote contexts

  44. Automatic validation in OData and REST calls with CAP

  45. reduce - the ur-function

  46. Highest value in JS - different ways

  47. Turning an OData expand into a cds.ql CQL query with a projection function in CAP

  48. Enabling document fragment links for headings in SAP Community blog posts

  49. Digging into CSN diffs for CDS models

  50. CodeTalk interview - living and working on a narrowboat

  51. Using ARG in a Dockerfile - beware the gotcha

  52. Defining a custom 'after' handler in CAP with 'each'

  53. Obtaining auth code grant type OAuth 2.0 tokens for Google APIs with a script

  54. Controlling automatic HTTP requests in CAP Node.js design time loops

  55. Simple script for previewing CDS models in CSN - cdsray

  56. Using @cap-js/sqlite in CF for your CAP services

  57. Running non-production CAP services in CF

  58. Easily add an explicit cds.requires.db to your CAP project's package.json

  59. Improve your CAP dev container shell prompt

  60. Avoid design time CAP server restarts when maintaining local data files

  61. CAP, CDS, CDL, CSN and jq - finding associations

  62. CAP, CORS and custom headers

  63. Test drive Joule's generative AI features in SAP Build Code now!

  64. Curating a collection of jq functions

  65. ISO content for common CAP types

  66. Quick conversion of multiple values using with_entries in jq

  67. Opening files from the terminal in BAS dev spaces

  68. Successful double CodeJam in Wroclaw and Warsaw

  69. Ghost cratch fitted

  70. Exploring codespaces as temporary dev containers

  71. Accuracy and precision in language

  72. Developing CAP in containers - three ways

  73. Battlestation 2024

  74. A simple jq REPL with tmux, bash, vim and entr

  75. Using the docker CLI in a container on macOS

  76. From Twitter to Mastodon

  77. Tmux plugin development with a local repo

  78. TIL - Two Tmux Plugin Manager features

  79. Solving the SAP TechEd Easter Egg on the Web

  80. Devtoberfest - the best developer prep for SAP TechEd

  81. Bash shell expansion inside double quotes

  82. OData query operations and URL encoding the system query options with curl

  83. Curing my stove aboard the narrowboat

  84. Mercia Marina to Shobnall Fields and Burton-on-Trent

  85. Resources for navigating the canal network

  86. Oil change and a visit to Mercia Marina

  87. SAP CodeJam report - service integration with CAP in Guetersloh, DE

  88. Selecting the related endpoints from a GitHub API response using jq's with_entries

  89. SAP CodeJam on Service Integration with CAP in Brescia

  90. Living on a narrowboat - layout details of the stern

  91. Improving my interactive jq workflow with ijq, bash and tmux

  92. More on the comma as generator, and streaming with select in jq

  93. Double SAP BTP goodness in Isernhagen

  94. Recognising patterns and embracing the stream

  95. Learning from community solutions on Exercism - part 3

  96. Living on a narrowboat - the stove as the heart of the home

  97. Learning from community solutions on Exercism - part 2

  98. Learning from community solutions on Exercism - part 1

  99. SAP community memories

  100. A deep dive into OData and CDS annotations

  101. SAP CodeJam on the btp CLI and APIs in Heilbronn

  102. SAP CodeJam on Service Integration with CAP in Utrecht

  103. Living on a narrowboat - embracing constraints

  104. Working from a narrowboat - Internet connectivity

  105. I'm moving onto a narrowboat

  106. Learning from exploring a question on jq

  107. Array push with autovivification in jq

  108. Managing resources on SAP BTP - what tool do I choose?

  109. Extracting blog post dates from URLs with jq

  110. Some notes on modular JSON Schema definitions

  111. More Untappd data explorations with jq - my top ranking beer types (part 3)

  112. More Untappd data explorations with jq - my top ranking beer types (part 2)

  113. Stop asking for slides in advance

  114. More Untappd data explorations with jq - my top ranking beer types (part 1)

  115. Untappd data with jq - my top brewery countries

  116. Understanding jq's SQL style operators JOIN and INDEX

  117. Summing and grouping values with jq

  118. Reshaping data values using jq's with_entries

  119. Multiple level filters in jq

  120. Products by supplier in OData and jq

  121. Exploring JSON with interactive jq

  122. JSON object values into CSV with jq

  123. Exploring GitHub repo name distribution with jq

  124. Converting strings to objects with jq

  125. Some thoughts on jq and statelessness

  126. Bash notes 3

  127. A classic example of yak shaving, and some stream editing

  128. Bash notes 2

  129. Bash notes

  130. Understanding jq's reduce function

  131. Setting up my own Cloud Foundry

  132. Exercism and jq

  133. SAP Tech Bytes: btp CLI - new home for configuration

  134. How I got involved in the SAP community

  135. Allowing my intangible core to catch up with the rest of me...

  136. Truncation and neat terminal output

  137. Controlling Chrome from the CLI

  138. Setting up hadolint - a Dockerfile linter

  139. Getting BTP resource GUIDs with the btp CLI – part 2 - JSON and jq

  140. Getting BTP resource GUIDs with the btp CLI - part 1

  141. UTFRW - Unofficial TechEd Fun Run / Walk / Roll - Share Your Pics!

  142. Exploring fff part 2 - get_ls_colors

  143. Embracing jq and JSON

  144. Sourcing vs executing in Bash

  145. SAP Tech Bytes: btp CLI - autocompletion

  146. Using functions more

  147. SAP Tech Bytes: btp CLI - managing configuration

  148. Improving shell fu with practice

  149. SAP Tech Bytes: btp CLI – logging in

  150. Exploring fff part 1 - main

  151. SAP Tech Bytes: btp CLI - installation

  152. Learning by rewriting - bash, jq and fzf details

  153. Today's TIL trio

  154. Session switching with the tmux menu

  155. tmux output formatting

  156. Reopening pull requests and GITHUB_ACTOR

  157. Unix tooling - join, don't extend

  158. Early thoughts on Warp

  159. The APC SMT750IC UPS works with the Synology NAS DS1621+

  160. Remote access to Docker on my Synology NAS

  161. Adding a drive to my Synology NAS

  162. Equality in tech

  163. Supporting developers with sponsorship

  164. Notes on Markdown linting - part 2

  165. Notes on Markdown linting - part 1

  166. Solving mysterious unrendered markdown headings

  167. Unpacking Bash shell tips from a GitHub Actions workflow

  168. GitHub Actions workflow browser

  169. Producing JSON with jq for appending issue titles

  170. SAP Tech Bytes: Exploring SAP-samples with gh and fzf

  171. Mainframes, SDSF and GitHub Actions

  172. New tmux panes and windows in the right directory

  173. Deeper connections to everyday tools

  174. Two-phase video uploads with YouTube API and curl

  175. La Pavoni maintenance successful

  176. Mass deletion of GitHub Actions workflow runs

  177. A new journal experiment - Thinking Aloud

  178. Aborting a script with parameter expansion

  179. SAP TechEd Developer Keynote - Info Central

  180. SAP Tech Bytes: Approuter User API Service

  181. fzf - the basics part 2 - search results

  182. Thoughts on video content

  183. fzf - the basics part 1 - layout

  184. Do less and do it better

  185. Columnar layout with AWK

  186. From Classics to Developer Advocate

  187. Updating your fork of the Developer Keynote repository

  188. Waiting for jobs, and the concept of the shell

  189. SAP TechEd 2020 Channel 1 at home

  190. Implicit values in Bash for loop construct

  191. UTFRW - Unofficial TechEd Fun Run / Walk

  192. SAP TechEd Developer Keynote DK100 - The Story

  193. My SAP TechEd 2020 - what I'm looking forward to

  194. An overview of SAP Developers video content

  195. The myriad meanings of pwd in Unix systems

  196. Computer Unit 1979

  197. The subtle art of quoting newline characters

  198. Case modification operators in parameter substitution

  199. MID$ and shell parameter expansion

  200. Understanding declare

  201. Desnowballification with set -o errexit

  202. Improving my shell scripting

  203. curl and multipart/form-data

  204. Checking a command is available before use

  205. Using exec to jump

  206. A new learning source for shell scripting

  207. Shell parameter expansion with :+ is useful

  208. Reducing writing friction

  209. Programmer's Day Mission 2020

  210. You can mask sensitive hostnames with wildcards and host aliases

  211. The open square bracket [ is an executable

  212. Why we have /bin/ and /usr/bin/

  213. String.prototype.replace() can take a function

  214. continue-on-error can prevent a job step failure causing an action failure

  215. git diff can emit different exit codes

  216. In an mta.yaml file you can use the service-name parameter to point to an existing resource

  217. SAP NPM packages now on npmjs.org

  218. Removing the knob on a La Pavoni steam valve

  219. SAP Community Coding Challenge 2 - Finalists

  220. SAP Community Coding Challenge 2 - Contestants

  221. Remote mount setup on the Raspberry Pi

  222. SAP Community Coding Challenge 2 - Update

  223. Terminal Tip: a CF remote monitor script

  224. SAP Community Coding Challenge Nr.2

  225. Terminal Tip: remotely monitor a CF deployment

  226. Terminal Tip: switching CF targets

  227. Terminal Tip: parsing CF app logs

  228. Terminal Tip: truncating CF output

  229. Initial Pi configuration via Ansible

  230. Code at Home episodes

  231. Let's learn to "Code at Home"

  232. Starting out with Raspberry Pi experiments

  233. Preparing the OS image

  234. Finding the Pis on the network

  235. Brambleweeny Cluster Experiments

  236. Mini adventures with MTAs and the Cloud Foundry CLI

  237. Scripting Cloud Foundry activities in trial

  238. My learning list for 2020

  239. Help us to help you - good questions beget good answers

  240. Mission 'Use CAP and SAP Cloud SDK to Extend S/4HANA' - an overview

  241. CAP is important because it's not important

  242. Shell power and simplicity

  243. Submit suggestions for Tech Aloud during SAP TechEd 2019

  244. Tech Aloud podcast - an introduction

  245. New podcast - Tech Aloud

  246. Happy Programmers Day!

  247. Hitch Hiker's style in Sea of Sorrows

  248. Computed field example in CAP

  249. We can do better than 'polynimbus'

  250. The Observer's Book of JS Style

  251. David Edward Adams

  252. Double SAP CodeJam Athens - a report

  253. Revisiting UI5 on CodeTalk

  254. First thoughts on the 2019 Stack Overflow Developer Survey results

  255. ES6, reduce and pipe

  256. Vim, Markdown and writing

  257. Housekeeping

  258. Monday morning thoughts: looking back and forwards

  259. Monday morning thoughts: digging deeper

  260. Monday morning thoughts: indirect influence

  261. Monday morning thoughts: learning media and mechanisms

  262. Monday morning thoughts: rethinking like the web

  263. Monday morning thoughts: longevity and loose coupling

  264. Monday morning thoughts: on starting blogging

  265. Monday morning thoughts: exploring reuse

  266. Monday morning thoughts: dynamic language

  267. Set up VS Code on Chrome OS for local Application Programming Model development

  268. Monday morning thoughts: big school and community

  269. SAP Cloud Application Programming Model (CAP) - start here

  270. Monday morning thoughts: more on ABAP in the cloud

  271. Monday morning thoughts: impostor syndrome

  272. Monday morning thoughts: growth is upwards

  273. Monday morning thoughts: Workflow Forms and the definition of a developer

  274. Monday morning thoughts: ABAP in the cloud

  275. My take on Wired's Google & URLs article

  276. Monday morning thoughts: considering GraphQL

  277. Monday morning thoughts: a good blog post

  278. Monday morning thoughts: OData

  279. Monday morning thoughts: the cloud is the computer

  280. Monday morning thoughts: mainframes and message documentation

  281. SAP CodeTalk sessions

  282. Monday morning thoughts: local http servers and containerisation

  283. Monday morning thoughts: what not how

  284. Monday morning thoughts: abstraction

  285. Monday morning thoughts: curiosity and understanding

  286. Monday morning thoughts: developers and advocacy

  287. Monday morning thoughts: programming models

  288. Interview with Rui Nogueira on the new Application Programming Model for SAP Cloud Platform

  289. Monday morning thoughts: community engagement

  290. Monday morning thoughts: Core Data Services

  291. Monday morning thoughts: the learning continuum

  292. Monday morning thoughts: programmers and identity

  293. Collaboration tools

  294. The Business Rules service - overview and getting started

  295. Monday morning thoughts: milestones

  296. Monday morning thoughts: functions - what functions?

  297. Balancing features with simplicity

  298. Monday morning thoughts: containers and silence

  299. Monday morning thoughts: editors and editing

  300. Monday morning thoughts: debugging approach and Greasemonkey revival

  301. Monday morning thoughts: upload / download in a cloud native world

  302. Monday morning thoughts: a cloud native smell

  303. Introduction to SAP Cloud Platform Workflow - Summary

  304. Monday morning thoughts: cloud native

  305. Becoming an SAP Mentor Alumnus

  306. Thoughts on what's next for the SAP Community

  307. Apps Script - Privacy Policy

  308. Coming Home

  309. Discovering SCP Workflow

  310. Consumption-based SCP Pricing - Initial Thoughts

  311. Things I do to make my work life better

  312. SCP Business Rules Roadmap - 5 Observations

  313. SAP Cloud Platform Pricing

  314. Fix Blink

  315. Functional programming - baby steps

  316. Meeting Request Details

  317. Google Cloud Functions + Sheets + Apps Script + Actions On Google = WIN

  318. YABP - Yet Another Blogging Platform

  319. Best practices for mobile reporting

  320. The beauty of recursion and list machinery

  321. Reaching out to the new new kingmakers

  322. Debugging SAP Fiori apps - the fifth "D"

  323. Excluding with vim's wildignore

  324. Better collaboration through chemistry

  325. F3C Parts 9 and 10 - Functors

  326. F3C Part 8 - Promises

  327. F3C Part 7 - Recursion

  328. F3C Part 6 - Currying

  329. F3C - A FunFunFunction Companion Series

  330. F3C Part 5 - Closures

  331. F3C Part 4 - Reduce advanced

  332. F3C Part 3 - Reduce basics

  333. F3C Part 2 - Map

  334. F3C Part 1 - Higher-order functions

  335. The Fiori revolution - disruption at its best

  336. Community and Collaboration at SAP Inside Track Manchester

  337. Understanding the SAP Fiori Cloud Edition

  338. Top 10 misconceptions about Fiori

  339. FOFP 2.1 A look at filter

  340. FOFP Fundamentals of functional programming

  341. FOFP 1.5 Creating functions

  342. FOFP 1.4 A different approach with map

  343. FOFP 1.3 Some basic list processing

  344. FOFP 1.2 Trying things out

  345. FOFP 1.1 Introduction

  346. Language minutiae and learning to SWIM

  347. Finding a wonderland number

  348. Enlightenment in action

  349. "fiux2" Week 7 - Build Your Own SAP Fiori App

  350. 4Clojure Puzzle 66

  351. "fiux2" Week 6 - Extend SAP Fiori Apps

  352. "fiux2" Week 5 - Enhance an SAP Fiori Master Detail App

  353. The SAP Fiori Launchpad as a dashboard for my running KPIs

  354. Quick HCP title hack with the Navigation Manager

  355. "fiux2" Week 4 - Create Your First SAP Fiori App

  356. "fiux2" Week 3 - Get Ready to Create Your First App

  357. The evolution of the SAP community

  358. "fiux2" Week 2 – Design Your First SAP Fiori App

  359. "fiux2" - The openSAP Fiori Course - 2016 Edition

  360. Building blocks of language, structure and thought

  361. The future of app building on the SAP HANA Cloud Platform

  362. Digital devolution in local authorities - putting people first

  363. Impromptu JS session at UKISUG15

  364. Speaking at SAP TechEd EMEA 2015

  365. Celebrating the engine of the Fiori revolution - the 30UI5 ebook

  366. My journey to Clojure

  367. Give me a browser, and I'll give you the world

  368. The advent of UI5 1.30 and what it means for us

  369. Cookies

  370. Building blocks for the future normal

  371. The origin of becoming a fundamental enabler for Fiori

  372. Revisiting the XML Model

  373. UI5 Version Info

  374. A non-techie PM's view of UI5

  375. UI5 - looking back and forward

  376. The experimental Client operation mode

  377. An introduction to sap.ui.define

  378. Taming the Resource Model Files

  379. Merging lists with UI5

  380. Spreading the UI5 Message

  381. Fragments and Minimum Viable Code

  382. A Short UI5 Debugging Journey

  383. MVC - Model View Controller, Minimum Viable Code

  384. UI5 and Fiori - The Story of Open and Free

  385. UI5 and Coding Standards

  386. The UI5 Support Tool - Help Yourself!

  387. Speeding up your UI5 app with a Component preload file

  388. Multi language support out of the box - UI5's pedigree

  389. Base Classes in UI5

  390. Handling Dates with the Date Picker

  391. Bootstrapping UI5 Locally and in the Cloud

  392. User Notifications with the Message Popover

  393. The App Descriptor

  394. OpenUI5 Walkthrough

  395. Creating Native Applications with UI5

  396. Semantic Pages

  397. Expression Binding

  398. Lightweight notifications with the Message Strip

  399. JavaScript Do's and Don'ts for UI5

  400. Welcome to 30 Days of UI5!

  401. Email Discipline

  402. JSON List Binding and maps

  403. openSAP Experiences

  404. This Week in Fiori (2015-16)

  405. This Week in Fiori (2015-15)

  406. This Week in Fiori (2015-14)

  407. This Week in Fiori (2015-13)

  408. This Week in Fiori (2015-12)

  409. Making Information More Useful

  410. The Maker's Schedule, Restraint and Flow

  411. This Week In Fiori (2015-11)

  412. Why I'm Staying Close to UI5

  413. Can I build a Fiori app? Yes you can!

  414. 10 tips to get you started on your Fiori development journey

  415. UI5 features for building responsive apps

  416. Speaking at Mastering SAP Technologies

  417. Fiori & UI5 Related Videos

  418. Morning Fiori Fix

  419. OpenUI5 at FOSDEM 2015

  420. Atom, Snippets, Tabs and CSON parsing

  421. Fiori App Data into a Spreadsheet? Challenge Accepted!

  422. Running: 2014 in review, and some Clojure

  423. DNA is still in our DNA

  424. The inaugural SAP architect and developer summit

  425. Creation & Reload of UI5 UIs in the Chrome Developer Console

  426. Addressing Emails

  427. This Week in Fiori (2014-43)

  428. This Week in Fiori (2014-42)

  429. Speaking at the SAP Architect & Developer Summit

  430. This Week in Fiori (2014-40)

  431. This Week in Fiori (2014-39)

  432. This Week in Fiori (2014-38)

  433. Scratching an itch - UI5 Icon Finder

  434. This Week in Fiori (2014-36)

  435. This Week in Fiori (2014-35)

  436. This Week in Fiori (2014-34)

  437. This Week in Fiori (2014-33)

  438. This Week in Fiori (2014-32)

  439. This Week in Fiori (2014-31)

  440. This Week in Fiori (2014-30)

  441. Keyed vs Non-Keyed Root JSON Elements & UI5 Binding

  442. OpenUI5 Tutorial at OSCON 2014

  443. This Week in Fiori (2014-29)

  444. This Week in Fiori (2014-28)

  445. Webinar and more - Understanding SAP Fiori

  446. This Week in Fiori (2014-27)

  447. Understanding SAP Fiori Webinar - The Director's Cut

  448. SAP Developer Advisory Board - Your Input!

  449. SAP Mentor Monday on UI5 - Links

  450. Paying IT Forward Links

  451. OpenUI5 CodeTalk Links

  452. Small steps - OpenUI5 toolkit now in jsbin.com

  453. Reaching Out

  454. Mocking up the Payroll Control Center Fiori App

  455. The essentials - SAPUI5, OpenUI5 and Fiori

  456. Public SAP Mentor Monday 24 Mar 2014 - UI5 with Andreas Kunz

  457. M is for 'responsive'

  458. Alt-K: Reading Notes

  459. XML Views and Resource Bundle Declarations

  460. UI5 XML Views - Another Example

  461. Help Us To Help You - Share Your Code

  462. Meta education - or teaching the teachers

  463. Quick hack: Calendar Inviter

  464. Mobile Dev Course W3U3 Rewrite - XML Views - An Analysis

  465. Custom Sorting and Grouping

  466. SAP UK & Ireland User Group Conference - Demo Jam!

  467. CodeTalk - SAPUI5 and SAP Fiori

  468. Mobile Dev Course W3U3 Rewrite - XML Views - An Intro

  469. Mobile Dev Course W3U3 Rewrite - ProductList, ProductDetail and SupplierDetail

  470. Mobile Dev Course W3U3 Rewrite - App and Login

  471. Mobile Dev Course W3U3 Rewrite - Index and Structure

  472. Mobile Dev Course W3U3 Rewrite - Intro

  473. Building SAP Fiori-like UIs with SAPUI5

  474. SheetAsJSON - Google Spreadsheet Data as JSON

  475. An Amazing 36 Hours at SAP Labs Israel

  476. Engaging the Next Generation

  477. #YRS2013 Hacks on Github

  478. Happy Birthday SCN, Old Friend

  479. Simple SAPUI5 Chrome icon for lazy developers like me

  480. CodeClub Thoughts

  481. Review of Dark Reserve Nr 3 from Lovibonds

  482. Functional Python - Itertools Exploration

  483. Our computational future

  484. 30 Day Challenge: No Beer!

  485. Public Github repo sapui5bin available

  486. Jump to Shell Workset Item from URL

  487. 30 Days Challenges

  488. Review of Fourth Dementia Old Ale from Kuhnhenn Brewing Company

  489. CodeClub and becoming a STEM Ambassador

  490. The Silent Club and Recharging Alone

  491. OData Everywhere

  492. Blog It Forward - DJ Adams

  493. Review of Norwegian Wood from Haandbryggeriet

  494. Recent Interests

  495. Serial interest in the Raspberry Pi

  496. SAPUI5 - the future direction of SAP UI development?

  497. Two tools for Gateway trial host nplhost

  498. On Enterprise Geeks Podcast

  499. Firebase and SAPUI5

  500. The Developer Connection: Connect Like Never Before

  501. SAPUI5 Powered SCN Forum Finder

  502. New Omniversity Course Video!

  503. Review of Red Rice Ale from Hitachino Nest

  504. SAPUI5 says "Hello OData" to NetWeaver Gateway

  505. Making OData from SAP accessible with the ICM's help

  506. SAP ICF course marketing: video!

  507. On the Information Diet

  508. The Developer Renaissance

  509. HTML5 @ SAP

  510. SAP Developer Center

  511. Movember - please donate!

  512. Web Programming with SAP's ICF: new course dates

  513. Moving on ... to Bluefin Solutions

  514. Review of Milk Stout from Left Handed Brewing Co

  515. Reading List Mark 2 - Part 5

  516. Reading List Mark 2 - Part 4

  517. Reading List Mark 2 - Part 3

  518. Reading List Mark 2 - Part 2

  519. Reading List Mark 2 - Part 1

  520. Automated email-to-task mechanism with Google Apps Script

  521. Ad-hoc Data Workflows with Google Apps Script

  522. Stand steady on the shoulders of giants

  523. Review of Torpedo from Sierra Nevada

  524. Beer review: Dark Star's Saison

  525. SOA scaffolding and development architects

  526. Review of Saison from Dark Star

  527. Danger! Graduate Conveyor-belt!

  528. JSON and Other Animals - talk at Manchester jQuery Meetup

  529. Gmail Contextual Gadgets - talk at Manchester GTUG

  530. My browser A-Z

  531. The past and future of SAP integration: guest Bluefin blog post

  532. Project Gateway. A call to arms. Or at least to data.

  533. Hacking the Delicious extension for Chrome

  534. Google Visualization API: Manchester GTUG Talk

  535. Not your father's SAP

  536. Getting started with Gmail Contextual Gadgets

  537. Scratching an itch - Magic The Gathering card info

  538. REpresentational State Transfer (REST) and SAP

  539. Tech Skills Chat with JonERP - A Follow-on Story

  540. REST orientation - Controlling access to resources

  541. A new REST handler / dispatcher for the ICF

  542. Mainframes and the cloud - everything old is new again

  543. SAP and Google Wave - Conversation Augmentation

  544. Book review - SAP Business ONE Implementation

  545. One way of dealing with blogtheft from SDN - through images

  546. Dealing with "#blogtheft" from SAP's Developer Network

  547. Command lines of the future, and simplicity of integration

  548. Coffeeshop screencast: HTTP conneg, resource representations and JSON

  549. 2nd coffeeshop REST/HTTP screencast

  550. Google Wave, XMPP and complexity

  551. Webhooks postbin example for Coffeeshop

  552. First coffeeshop demo screencast

  553. 'Coffeeshop' - lightweight HTTP-based pubsub

  554. Information vs Behaviour

  555. A return to the SDN community, and a touch of Javascript

  556. Tarpipe REST connector in 5 minutes

  557. Twitter's success

  558. Analysing CV searches with Delicious

  559. SAP everywhere!

  560. An HTTP connector for Tarpipe: 'tarbridge'

  561. tarpipe.com - Programming 2.0?

  562. Old feed URLs fixed with a bit of mod_rewrite voodoo

  563. Back from Real Life

  564. OssNoteFix script updated for Greasemonkey 0.6.4 and Firefox 1.5

  565. Java and Gosling's FUD - madness or desperation?

  566. SAP and Open Source: the debate continues

  567. Acorn Atom and my start in computing

  568. SAP and Open Source - an analysis and letter to SAP and Shai

  569. MoonOverFailsworth

  570. Whither SAP?

    I’ve been thinking a lot recently about where SAP is going and what SAP is doing today, especially in the light of where it went and what it did in the past. To be honest, the thinking has been triggered by frustration at the nuts and bolts of SAP technical matters, particularly in the area of service support and basis work.

  571. SDN, Blogging, and Planet SAP

    In May I was approached by a chap at SAP in Walldorf who wanted to ask me some questions on blogging (I have a blog over on the SAP Developer Network) for an article he was writing for an SAP-internal magazine.

  572. The SAP developer community 10 years ago

    On the early years of the SAP community online.

  573. Turnkey MVS 3.8J on Hercules S/370 Screenshot

    Big iron and retrocomputing.

  574. SAP: temporary loss of touch with reality?

  575. Hacking the SAP service portal to make OSS notes better

    Deploying Greasemonkey to fix a long standing issue with OSS Notes at SAP.

  576. Ubuntu? Thanks. But no thanks.

    Lots of people seem to be very impressed with Ubuntu, the slick new Linux distro based on Debian, running Gnome.

  577. Europe, SAP, and two-way conferences

    It’s the end of the week that saw the SDN Meets Labs down in Walldorf.

  578. Flickr Pro from Robert

    I’m going to have to think of ways to make use of the extra bandwidth and picture storage capabilities, aren’t I?

  579. SDN Meets Labs

    Rain. Lots of it. And I drove through it all this morning, all the way down the A61, to get to SAP University in Rot, near Walldorf.

  580. SDN Meets Labs gets underway at SAP University

    The SDN Meets Labs at Walldorf-Rot gets underway at Walldorf-Rot.

  581. Muscle cars

  582. An overcorrection too far?

    Norman Walsh gives up ‘wrestling his way through the arcana of WSDL’.

  583. Postcode bookmarklet

    We’ve been spending time recently looking at property in the North West.

  584. Weblog happy in new home - note new URLs!

    Cool URIs don't change ... much.

  585. Ralphm on sjabber

    Digging into sjabber's source.

  586. Honest application requirements

    An unusual "user story".

  587. Blosxom entries into MT

    After setting up this blog, it was only natural to bring across my earlier blog posts that were previously served with Blosxom.

  588. A fresh start

    The perils and joys of self-hosting at a colo.

  589. (Mini) Installfest in the SDN clubhouse at TechEd

  590. Photos from SAP TechEd Munich

    The third weblog in two days … what’s going on? Well, Mark is a hard taskmaster, obviously 🙂

  591. The meaning of LIFETIME_RC

    Last week, during some preparation for my talk at TechEd on Thursday this week, I’d been wondering about something in the ICF that hadn’t seemed quite right.

  592. SAP TechEd first day - notes from Munich

    Well, after a nightmare getting here (V-Bird, the airline I was booked with, went bust) I’m now in Munich at a decidedly disconnected TechEd 04 (more on the disconnected misery later).

  593. SAP TechEd here I come ... with session slides!

    SAP TechEd is looming large, and this year it's in Munich. (If you’re not in Europe, then SAP are holding TechEd events in Bangalore, Tokyo, and San Diego too).

  594. The integration irony of SAP's technology directions

    I’ve finally realised what it is that’s been bugging me about the new arena of SAP technology.

  595. The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time

    I bought three books at Manchester airport yesterday.

  596. A little taste of SAP at EuroFoo

  597. SDN Meetup in Walldorf - a summary

    Well, 24 hours (almost to the minute) have passed since I got off the train at Wiesloch-Walldorf station yesterday.

  598. TechEd talk winners - congrats

    Congratulations to the three TechEd talk winners Luke, Jayakumar and Andreas.

  599. Forget SOAP - build real web services with the ICF

    I don’t like getting into a lather when it comes to data and function integration. Rather than using SOAP, I prefer real web services, built with HTTP.

  600. Real Web Services with REST and ICF

    This piece has become somewhat famous (or infamous) in SAP tech circles, for the approach it took and the claims it made. I'm happy to say that REST won out and that those that tried to denounce me ... failed :-)

  601. NW4, OSS1 and logon group selection for OSS

    Digging into logon group selection.

  602. SAP at JAX 2004

    A brief report on JAX 2004.

  603. WAS 6.40 testdrive for Linux is here!

    Phew. What a day yesterday at the world’s biggest IT fair.

  604. Successful installation of EP plugin into testdrive WAS 6.10 system

    I spent most of yesterday in the kitchen, my favourite place.

  605. Tim O'Reilly and the three 'C's

    Well, I made it to FOSDEM this morning with time to spare.

  606. FOSDEM, and small OSS Notes Browser Hack

    Tomorrow morning I'm off to Brussels for FOSDEM - the Free and Open Source Software Developers' Meeting.

  607. FOSDEM and Brussels, here I come!

    I’ve been umming and arring over conferences this year.

  608. Hawo's Queen of Grain Mills

    I've been baking bread now for quite a while now. The bread baking bug first got ahold of me when visiting friends. They had a bread making machine – something that you put all the basic ingredients into, hit a button, and presto. Naturally we bought one soon after, and I was, well, "hooked".

  609. Hello, 2004

    2004 is here. Neues Spiel, neues Glück.

  610. SAP TechEd - Collaborative notes

    I’m off to SAP TechEd this week in Basel.

  611. Dashboard as extension to R/3 and SAPGUI client

    How do your users work with SAP data? Exclusively through SAPGUI or with other desktop apps too? If it’s the latter, read on.

  612. Plums and the antithesis of technology

    I haven’t been online much recently.

  613. Improving the OSS note experience

    How can we make this key service less unpleasant to use?

  614. SAP InfoTag on Web Application Server

    SAP are running an Infotag on the Web Application Server in early September.

  615. SAP talk at OSCON, and RSS

    Reflecting on our talk at OSCON about extending SAP with open source tools and protocols.

  616. Google Pocket Guide out now

    My new book for O'Reilly is out.

  617. Another great OSCON

    Reflecting on another Open Source Convention.

  618. Thanks, Randal

    Relaxing in an 80's arcade at OSCON.

  619. Dashboard, a compelling articulation for realtime contextual information

    Miguel de Icaza and Nat Friedman were keynoting at OSCON this morning.

  620. SAP and Open Source BOF at OSCON

    Merging the enterprise and open source worlds over a beer.

  621. Bittersweet

    On each occasion I’ve travelled to the USA, either on business or for pleasure, I’ve entered the country with a rather bitter taste in my mouth.

  622. Thinking vs doing

    In the past, I’ve mentioned to friends some of the thinking I’ve had about the Semantic Web, RDF, and related stuff (FOAF, RSS, and so on).

  623. Some ramblings on URIs and identity

    Coming back from a short break from the tech world recently, I started to reacquaint myself with FOAF and RDF, amongst other things.

  624. SAP stuff at OSCON

    My partner-in-(code)-crime Piers Harding and I are speaking at this year’s OSCON (Open Source Convention).

  625. The SAP/MySQL Partnership

    I keep hearing reports that the recent announcement of cooperation between SAP AG and MySQL AB has been making the community unhappy.

  626. Speaking at OSCON 2003

    Always an honour and a privilege.

  627. "A brilliant literary mash-up"...

    The fusion of Hogwarts and Molesworth.

  628. Weblogs and Wikis - Blurring the Boundaries

    More on the crossover between blogging and wikis.

  629. New Blosxom plugin 'submission'

    A generic blogging mechanism for accepting content POSTed to it.

  630. 'Conneg' and the duality of weblogs

    Philosophy triggered by the lowly but essential connection negotiation aspect of HTTP.

  631. Tiki parser for MoinMoin

    Embedding the Tiki language into the MoinMoin wiki.

  632. Blosxom 2.0 Beta1

    Looking at the latest release of the blogging software that I use.

  633. RSS aggregators and user-agent information for Blagg

    Tool reuse a la Unix philosophy, and more on building out the future in tiny steps.

  634. Tinkering with RSS and NNTP

    The beauty of open standards is that they can be adopted, remixed and combined.

  635. Your wishlist in 'consumable' XML

    Introducing a new experimental Perl module.

  636. Asleep in 2002

    Amazon does seem to have XML based data available after all.

  637. The fragility of retro-engineering

    Having to modify my allconsuming scripts because of differences between amazon.co.uk and amazon.com data.

  638. Transferring my Amazon wishlist to AllConsuming.net

    Scripting to the rescue, as always.

  639. Presentations, Wikis, and Site Navigation

    Why build something when there's already a standard to embrace?

  640. Content-Type and Blosxom's RSS

    The perils of unescaped content in feeds.

  641. Wisdom, diplomacy, or serendipity?

    On the architectural style(s) of allcosuming.net's API.

  642. The universal canvas and RSS apps

    Thoughts on the applicability and utility of the format.

  643. The disruptive engineering spectrum, and "booktalk", an AllConsuming app

    Creating an experimental service based on existing mechanisms.

  644. Creating the "Entry index"

    More on building out how my blog looks.

  645. A new year and a new approach

    Taking a fresh, less cluttered approach to the website and blog.

  646. Startups and software patents

    Dave W points to Strangeberry, a startup that are doing a Java rendition of Rendevous.

  647. For REST, read 'Architectural Style'

    In the swirling mass of memes surrounding web services it’s sometimes easy to forget that REST is an architectural style, an approach, rather than something that you install or debug.

  648. "Assaults on the Internet's end-to-end-architecture"

    What can and should we do about spam?

  649. Ben's RSS book

    A new book on RSS from Ben Hammersley.

  650. RESTifying RT

    Some notes on providing a RESTful API for Request Tracker.

  651. 'Practical RDF' book up for public review

    Shelley Powers' new book.

  652. Notes to self: What should the rdf:about point to?

    If nothing else, RSS 1.0 is a great source of contemplation and wondering. This morning, I’ve been considering the thoughts surrounding the rdf:about attribute in the channel element.

  653. A moment of clarity: The significance of RSS 1.0 as an RDF application

    It's to do with the emphasis on RDF rather than XML, in RSS.

  654. The case of the missing rdf:Description

  655. More thoughts to ponder

    Here are two or three thoughtbites that I’ve come across over the past few days and that have stayed with me. I just thought I’d share them here as it’s the weekend and often a good time to think about things.

  656. XML Scripting, data manipulation, and RDF

    Can there be native support for XML as a data type?

  657. Moving from description to content:encoded in my RSS 1.0 feed

    Using the mod_content module of RSS 1.0.

  658. From RSS 0.91 to 1.0

    Incantations to progress to RSS 1.0.

  659. The RDF in RSS

    Digging into the real truth about the RDF in RSS.

  660. Moving between Mozilla tabs with the keyboard

    An answer to my question on keyboard controllable Mozilal features.

  661. Mozilla "Bookmark This Group of Tabs"

    Improving the browsing experience one feature at a time.

  662. REST, Google, and idempotency

  663. Cacheing on XSLT service

    More on the Mozilla sidebar experiments.

  664. Sidebars, Mozilla, RSS: old and new

    RSS, RDF, XUL, XSLT and more.

  665. You know you're getting old ...

    Looking back on this year's OSCON.

  666. The OS tables are turning...

    The origins of one of my favourite phrases "Does not work on Windows".

  667. Just finished re-reading: The Player Of Games (Iain M Banks)

    Some thoughts on The Culture.

  668. The mist is clearing ...

    On my continuing quest to grok REST.

  669. From REST to URIs, the Semantic Web, RDF, and FOAF

    Protocols and formats making up the semantic web.

  670. The 80/20 of HTTP

    Musing on how HTTP is used in the main.

  671. Reflecting weblogs.com 'ping's with SOAP, Jabber, and Pubsub

    More on building out the weblog-o-sphere infrastructure.

  672. Programming Jabber review

    A positive review of my O'Reilly book.

  673. Accessibility and Blosxom

    Extending my blogging engine for accessibility.

  674. A change and a rest

    Back recharged from holiday.

  675. 'Blosmail' - add and maintain your blog entries via email

    Experimenting with Blosxom editing via a different medium.

  676. Standing on the shoulders ... Exploring Weblog Neighbourhoods with Blogdex

    Inspired by Mark and Dave, I’ve been doing a bit of neighbourhood exploration hacking of my own.

  677. Small Blagg mod to enable custom formatting of 'blaggregated' items

    An unofficial modification to Blagg.

  678. Changed link tags

    More work on RSS, metadata and discovery.

  679. HTML link tag for Blogroll

    Social network scripting and blog rolls.

  680. Collapse/Expand feature for my Blaggregated display

    Extending Blagg and related features.

  681. Extreme Computing 2002

    Going to the Festival of Inappropriate Technology.

  682. RSS's underlying structure, and meta-RSS.

    I’ve been pondering the nature of RSS, the lightweight syndication and feed format which is a heavy contender for the most talked-about XML format these days (uh, I suppose this post goes some way to help the cause too :-).

  683. HTML LINK to RSS source

    Continuing the build-out of weblog based mechanisms.

  684. Top tip

    On falling down the stairs.

  685. ETag-enabled wget

    Adding ETag awareness to the venerable wget utility.

  686. More thoughts on HTTP, Email, and Jabber

    On HTTP headers and queueing architectures.

  687. "Web^H^H^HInternet Services"? Some Ramblings.

    I’ve been pondering the term “Web Services”. While I completely understand and agree with all the reasonings behind the term (the ‘original’ services were accessible via web clients, HTTP is the underlying and ubiquitous transport, blah blah blah), I’m wondering whether “Web Services” is the best term to use.

  688. The Panopticon

    Extending the Panopticon experiment with XML messaging via Jabber.

  689. Jabberconf Blaggplug version 0+1b

    Updating the Jabber conference plugin for Blagg (the Blosxom RSS aggregator).

  690. (Jabber-)Browsing the Panopticon data

    More on extending the Panopticon experiment.

  691. Amphetadesk Links

    More on feeds, subscriptions and aggregations.

  692. Subscription from Radio

    Maintaining feed metadata.

  693. Mr 80-Percent

  694. Blaggplug: jabberconf

    Aggregation and publish/subscribe.

  695. YARM: Yet Another Referers Mechanism

    Referers, backlinks, and the Unix command line.

  696. One small step ... one giant leap ...

    Calling remote functions over Jabber.

  697. Calendar code

    The calendar script for my sidebar.

  698. Bring on the SSI

    Server Side Includes and Blosxom.

  699. Blosxom vs the world

    The choice and decision to use specific blogging software.

  700. Blog software review

    More on blogging software.

  701. community(disagreement + debate) = inspiration

    The debate between SOAP and REST.

  702. "Blog Locally, Publish Globally"

    On the enduring pattern of local control but global reach.

  703. Other side of the coin: 5335 now resurrected

    RSS, Radio Userland, and redirectors.

  704. Original Peerkat-based weblog back up for reference

    More on Peerkat, a data syndication aggregator.

  705. Coffee Mugs and weblog interop

    Experimenting with Peerkat, feeds and Blosxom.

  706. Cross pollination and blossoming of scripts

    On the growing Blosxom ecosphere.

  707. My bookmarks

    Scripting with bookmarks.

  708. Off with the (relatively) old, on with the new

    More on Blosxom, and a fix to our colocated server.

  709. Interview on jabber.org

    A transcript of my interview on jabber.org.

  710. Hello Blosxom

    A move to the Blosxom blogging software.

  711. Bot window as command line of the future

    Musing on doing more from within the chatbot prompt.

  712. FOSDEM interview

    This post is a transcript of an interview by Raphaël Bauduin for FOSDEM.

  713. What is a Jabber client?

    "A rose is a rose, by any other name." But is the same true for a Jabber client? I don't think so.