DJ Adams

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  1. Shift left with CAP

    In this post I posit that shifting left in our CAP based solutions is something that we should be striving to do.

  2. Series of "Did You Know" videos

    Here's a collection of pointers to short "Did You Know" videos from the Developer Advocates, highlighting small but interesting and useful aspects of various SAP tech tools, frameworks and products.

  3. Modifying queries, replacing the WHERE clause

    Here's a quick post to explain how to modify existing query objects in CAP, specifically using the CAP Node.js cds.ql API.

  4. Path expressions, nested projections, aggregations and expressions in queries with CQL and CXL in CAP

    A brief exploration of some of the features of CAP's powerful query and expression languages, inspired by our journey into CXL in the current Hands-on SAP Dev series.

  5. OData Deep Dive rewrite in the open

    I'm refreshing the content of the OData Deep Dive series of tutorials, in the open.

  6. Modules, modularity & reuse in CDS models - part 5 - digging into @capire/common

    In this post I look at various mechanisms that @capire/common has that makes it "active" as a reuse package.

  7. Constraints, expressions and axioms in action

    In this blog post I meditate on how declarative constraints are realised in CAP, using the power of the underlying database.

  8. Modules, modularity & reuse in CDS models - part 4 - from passive to active with @capire/common

    Starting with a simple use of the published @qmacro/common reuse module, I then turn to @capire/common for a first look at what I call an "active" reuse module.

  9. Modules, modularity & reuse in CDS models - part 3 - publishing the simple reuse package

    Taking the simple passive reuse package created in part 2, I now publish it to the NPM registry which is part of GitHub Packages.

  10. Modules, modularity & reuse in CDS models - part 2 - creating a simple reuse package

    Following on from part 1 in this series, I take a step back and look at the fundamentals of creating and working with a module, locally in this part, using the NPM workspace concept.

  11. Why I use services.cds in simple CDS model examples

    The services.cds filename is special, which is why I make use of it.

  12. Modules, modularity & reuse in CDS models

    An overview of the blog posts in the series "Modules, modularity & reuse in CDS models".

  13. Modules, modularity & reuse in CDS models - part 1 - an introduction

    In this first post of a new series I look at the using directive in CDS modelling, and how NPM modules can be fundamental building blocks in modularity and reuse.

  14. A new Hands-on SAP Dev mini-series on the core expression language in CDS

    Hands-on SAP Dev is back soon, kicking off in January with a new mini-series on CAP, specifically on CXL, the core expression language in the CDS family.

  15. A simple exploration of status transition flows in CAP

    In this post I explore the new Status-Transition Flows in CAP with a simple example.

  16. Some ramblings on simple CDS modelling with CDL

    A brief note-to-self after digging in to some simple constructs in CDS modelling.

  17. Hands-on domain modelling with CAP's CDS at UKISUG Connect

    A quick overview of the hands-on workshop I'll be running at UKISUG Connect this year.

  18. Quiet cds test output - two ways

    Reducing CAP server log output during tests, in two different ways, via a profile encapsulated set of log level configurations, or via the new cds test command.

  19. Modelling contained-in relationships with compositions in CDS

    A short study of the features of CDS for modelling classic contained-in relationships, with a focus on the details, and a lean towards anonymous aspects.

  20. 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.

  21. CDS source formatting and readability

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

  22. Upcoming talks in autumn 2025

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

  23. 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.

  24. 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.

  25. Excluding specific diagnostics in Neovim

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

  26. A reCAP intro to the cds REPL

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

  27. 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.

  28. Editing Markdown in a Neovim environment

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

  29. 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.

  30. 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.

  31. 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.

  32. 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.

  33. 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.

  34. 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.

  35. 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.

  36. 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.

  37. 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.

  38. 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.

  39. 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.

  40. 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. This post is about using the knowledge we've gained to write our own plugin.

  41. 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. This post is about discovering and exploring service details with introspection.

  42. CAP Node.js Plugins

    Here's a summary of the resources relating to the CAP Node.js Plugins series.

  43. TASC Notes - Part 6

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

  45. TASC Notes - Part 5

  46. TASC Notes - Part 4

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

  48. The Art and Science of CAP

  49. TASC Notes - Part 3

  50. TASC Notes - Part 2

  51. Creating the new Tech Aloud intro and outro music

  52. Flattening the hierarchy with mixins

  53. Five reasons to use CAP

  54. Separating concerns and focusing on the important stuff

  55. Restricting access via facets with masked elements

  56. Keeping things simple in domain modelling with CDS

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

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

    In this first of a three part series of blog posts accompanying a corresponding video series, we explore the CDS plugin mechanism in CAP. This post is about understanding how the plugin mechanism works.

  59. TASC Notes - Part 1

  60. Setting up a cache server for apt packages

  61. New source for LXD images on Crostini

  62. Using lazydocker with SSH-based remote contexts

  63. Automatic validation in OData and REST calls with CAP

  64. reduce - the ur-function

  65. Highest value in JS - different ways

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

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

  68. Digging into CSN diffs for CDS models

  69. CodeTalk interview - living and working on a narrowboat

  70. Using ARG in a Dockerfile - beware the gotcha

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

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

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

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

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

  76. Running non-production CAP services in CF

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

  78. Improve your CAP dev container shell prompt

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

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

  81. CAP, CORS and custom headers

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

  83. Curating a collection of jq functions

  84. ISO content for common CAP types

  85. Quick conversion of multiple values using with_entries in jq

  86. Opening files from the terminal in BAS dev spaces

  87. Successful double CodeJam in Wroclaw and Warsaw

  88. Ghost cratch fitted

  89. Exploring codespaces as temporary dev containers

  90. Accuracy and precision in language

  91. Developing CAP in containers - three ways

  92. Battlestation 2024

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

  94. Using the docker CLI in a container on macOS

  95. From Twitter to Mastodon

  96. Tmux plugin development with a local repo

  97. TIL - Two Tmux Plugin Manager features

  98. Solving the SAP TechEd Easter Egg on the Web

  99. Devtoberfest - the best developer prep for SAP TechEd

  100. Bash shell expansion inside double quotes

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

  102. Curing my stove aboard the narrowboat

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

  104. Resources for navigating the canal network

  105. Oil change and a visit to Mercia Marina

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

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

  108. SAP CodeJam on Service Integration with CAP in Brescia

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

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

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

  112. Double SAP BTP goodness in Isernhagen

  113. Recognising patterns and embracing the stream

  114. Learning from community solutions on Exercism - part 3

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

  116. Learning from community solutions on Exercism - part 2

  117. Learning from community solutions on Exercism - part 1

  118. SAP community memories

  119. A deep dive into OData and CDS annotations

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

  121. SAP CodeJam on Service Integration with CAP in Utrecht

  122. Living on a narrowboat - embracing constraints

  123. Working from a narrowboat - Internet connectivity

  124. I'm moving onto a narrowboat

  125. Learning from exploring a question on jq

  126. Array push with autovivification in jq

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

  128. Extracting blog post dates from URLs with jq

  129. Some notes on modular JSON Schema definitions

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

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

  132. Stop asking for slides in advance

    I'm giving a talk next month and was asked by the organiser to send my slides to them no later than two weeks before the event. Hmm.

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

  134. Untappd data with jq - my top brewery countries

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

  136. Summing and grouping values with jq

    Here's yet another note-to-self on using jq, this time to transform a flat list of order totals and dates into a summary of total order values by year.

  137. Reshaping data values using jq's with_entries

  138. Multiple level filters in jq

  139. Products by supplier in OData and jq

  140. Exploring JSON with interactive jq

  141. JSON object values into CSV with jq

    I wanted to grab a CSV version of a JSON representation of an entityset in the Northwind OData service. Here's how I converted the JSON structure into CSV with jq, and along the way, I talk about arrays, objects, iterators, object indices, variables, identity, array construction and format strings.

  142. Exploring GitHub repo name distribution with jq

  143. Converting strings to objects with jq

  144. Some thoughts on jq and statelessness

  145. Bash notes 3

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

  147. Bash notes 2

  148. Bash notes

  149. Understanding jq's reduce function

  150. Setting up my own Cloud Foundry

  151. Exercism and jq

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

  153. How I got involved in the SAP community

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

  155. Truncation and neat terminal output

  156. Controlling Chrome from the CLI

  157. Setting up hadolint - a Dockerfile linter

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

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

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

  161. Exploring fff part 2 - get_ls_colors

  162. Embracing jq and JSON

  163. Sourcing vs executing in Bash

  164. SAP Tech Bytes: btp CLI - autocompletion

  165. Using functions more

  166. SAP Tech Bytes: btp CLI - managing configuration

  167. Improving shell fu with practice

  168. SAP Tech Bytes: btp CLI – logging in

  169. Exploring fff part 1 - main

  170. SAP Tech Bytes: btp CLI - installation

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

  172. Today's TIL trio

  173. Session switching with the tmux menu

  174. tmux output formatting

  175. Reopening pull requests and GITHUB_ACTOR

  176. Unix tooling - join, don't extend

  177. Early thoughts on Warp

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

  179. Remote access to Docker on my Synology NAS

  180. Adding a drive to my Synology NAS

  181. Equality in tech

  182. Supporting developers with sponsorship

  183. Notes on Markdown linting - part 2

  184. Notes on Markdown linting - part 1

  185. Solving mysterious unrendered markdown headings

  186. Unpacking Bash shell tips from a GitHub Actions workflow

  187. GitHub Actions workflow browser

  188. Producing JSON with jq for appending issue titles

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

  190. Mainframes, SDSF and GitHub Actions

  191. New tmux panes and windows in the right directory

  192. Deeper connections to everyday tools

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

  194. La Pavoni maintenance successful

  195. Mass deletion of GitHub Actions workflow runs

  196. A new journal experiment - Thinking Aloud

  197. Aborting a script with parameter expansion

  198. SAP TechEd Developer Keynote - Info Central

  199. SAP Tech Bytes: Approuter User API Service

  200. fzf - the basics part 2 - search results

  201. Thoughts on video content

  202. fzf - the basics part 1 - layout

  203. Do less and do it better

  204. Columnar layout with AWK

  205. From Classics to Developer Advocate

  206. Updating your fork of the Developer Keynote repository

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

  208. SAP TechEd 2020 Channel 1 at home

  209. Implicit values in Bash for loop construct

  210. UTFRW - Unofficial TechEd Fun Run / Walk

  211. SAP TechEd Developer Keynote DK100 - The Story

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

  213. An overview of SAP Developers video content

  214. The myriad meanings of pwd in Unix systems

  215. Computer Unit 1979

  216. The subtle art of quoting newline characters

  217. Case modification operators in parameter substitution

  218. MID$ and shell parameter expansion

  219. Understanding declare

  220. Desnowballification with set -o errexit

  221. Improving my shell scripting

  222. curl and multipart/form-data

  223. Checking a command is available before use

  224. Using exec to jump

  225. A new learning source for shell scripting

  226. Shell parameter expansion with :+ is useful

  227. Reducing writing friction

  228. Programmer's Day Mission 2020

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

  230. The open square bracket [ is an executable

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

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

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

  234. git diff can emit different exit codes

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

  236. SAP NPM packages now on npmjs.org

  237. Removing the knob on a La Pavoni steam valve

  238. SAP Community Coding Challenge 2 - Finalists

  239. SAP Community Coding Challenge 2 - Contestants

  240. Remote mount setup on the Raspberry Pi

  241. SAP Community Coding Challenge 2 - Update

  242. Terminal Tip: a CF remote monitor script

  243. SAP Community Coding Challenge Nr.2

  244. Terminal Tip: remotely monitor a CF deployment

  245. Terminal Tip: switching CF targets

  246. Terminal Tip: parsing CF app logs

  247. Terminal Tip: truncating CF output

  248. Initial Pi configuration via Ansible

  249. Code at Home episodes

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

  251. Starting out with Raspberry Pi experiments

  252. Preparing the OS image

  253. Finding the Pis on the network

  254. Brambleweeny Cluster Experiments

  255. Mini adventures with MTAs and the Cloud Foundry CLI

  256. Scripting Cloud Foundry activities in trial

  257. My learning list for 2020

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

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

  260. CAP is important because it's not important

  261. Shell power and simplicity

  262. Submit suggestions for Tech Aloud during SAP TechEd 2019

  263. Tech Aloud podcast - an introduction

  264. New podcast - Tech Aloud

  265. Happy Programmers Day!

  266. Hitch Hiker's style in Sea of Sorrows

  267. Computed field example in CAP

  268. We can do better than 'polynimbus'

  269. The Observer's Book of JS Style

  270. David Edward Adams

  271. Double SAP CodeJam Athens - a report

  272. Revisiting UI5 on CodeTalk

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

  274. ES6, reduce and pipe

    In learning about functional programming, one thing that's worked for me is to take my time, and not rush over fundamental concepts. In fact, like a good beer or whisky, a fundamental concept is something to savour, to enjoy at a leisurely pace.

  275. Vim, Markdown and writing

  276. Housekeeping

  277. Monday morning thoughts: looking back and forwards

    I look back on the posts in this series, reflect upon the journey we've made, and think about what 2019 might hold for us.

  278. Monday morning thoughts: digging deeper

    I think about the tools we use in our day-to-day activities, the feeling I have that I'm just scratching the surface with regards to their capabilities, and what I plan to do about it in 2019.

  279. Monday morning thoughts: indirect influence

    On how our work can directly and even indirectly influence those that come after us, and about what this means for how we should act.

  280. Monday morning thoughts: learning media and mechanisms

    I think about the different ways I learn, and wonder how that translates to how we learn in the SAP developer ecosphere.

  281. Monday morning thoughts: rethinking like the web

    I revisit some principles that help us "think like the web" and think about them in the context of today's SAP technology landscape and community.

  282. Monday morning thoughts: longevity and loose coupling

    I think about the importance of core technologies, and how the arrival of functions-as-a-service might be merely the next incarnation of an idea that's existed for a while.

  283. Monday morning thoughts: on starting blogging

    On what made me start blogging, and on the reasons to start blogging that might resonate with you, if you've not yet made that step.

  284. Monday morning thoughts: exploring reuse

    I think about reuse and extension, in the context of the Application Programming Model for SAP Cloud Platform, and mindful of Björn Goerke's SAP TechEd 2018 keynote message in Barcelona - "keep the core clean".

  285. Monday morning thoughts: dynamic language

    Musings on a particular function definition in JavaScript, and how it represents beauty and practicality in equal measure.

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

  287. Monday morning thoughts: big school and community

    On my experience going from primary school to secondary school - "big school", how that parallels our collective move from on-prem to the cloud, and how the community is more important than ever in this transition.

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

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

    Following a previous post on the subject, I think a bit more about the SAP Cloud Platform ABAP Environment, inspired by the conversations around the subject at SAP TechEd in Las Vegas last week.

  290. Monday morning thoughts: impostor syndrome

    On the impostor syndrome, how it relates to me, and one of the possible causes.

  291. Monday morning thoughts: growth is upwards

    In this post, I think about how we grow, how we improve ourselves by adding to our knowledge and experience, and consider that our growth is sometimes uphill but almost always rewarding.

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

    I think briefly about the definition of a developer, and in that context look at the advent of Workflow Forms, a major new addition to the functionality of the Workflow service on SAP Cloud Platform.

  293. Monday morning thoughts: ABAP in the cloud

    I think about the new SAP Cloud Platform ABAP Environment, what it is, what it isn't, and why I think it's a great move.

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

  295. Monday morning thoughts: considering GraphQL

    On GraphQL, and its relationship with existing ideas for managing data and structured exposure to that data over a wire protocol.

  296. Monday morning thoughts: a good blog post

    What makes a good blog post, and also what writing such a post does for the author, too.

  297. Monday morning thoughts: OData

    I think about OData, in particular where it came from and why it looks and acts like it does. I also consider why I think it was a good protocol for an organisation like SAP to embrace.

  298. Monday morning thoughts: the cloud is the computer

    I think about what the future of programming in an enterprise environment might look like, and realise that it makes sense to consider that the cloud itself is the new computer.

  299. Monday morning thoughts: mainframes and message documentation

    I think about mainframes and a message documentation aspect from the mainframe world that, while originally proprietary, is a big plus for operators and developers alike and something I'd love to see return.

  300. SAP CodeTalk sessions

  301. Monday morning thoughts: local http servers and containerisation

    I look back on an idea surfaced by a hero of mine, and think about how that idea laid the path for today's containerisation initiatives.

  302. Monday morning thoughts: what not how

    In this post, I think about how we program, about the way we describe what it is that we want the computer to do for us, and look at what has become for me the canonical example of the difference between 'what' and 'how'.

  303. Monday morning thoughts: abstraction

    I think about abstraction, the power and facility it affords, and consider CDS as one example of a modern abstraction language.

  304. Monday morning thoughts: curiosity and understanding

    I think about how curiosity can lead to a better understanding of things, and give a specific example concerning CDS and the new Application Programming Model for SAP Cloud Platform.

  305. Monday morning thoughts: developers and advocacy

    I think about what it means to me to be a part of the Developer Relations team, and talk a bit about evangelism, outreach and advocacy.

  306. Monday morning thoughts: programming models

    I think about the idea of the programming model and consider the occurrence of such over the recent years in the SAP development ecosphere.

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

  308. Monday morning thoughts: community engagement

    I think about some of the basic ingredients of a good online community, and describe what I'm going to try to do to engage more with the SAP Community.

  309. Monday morning thoughts: Core Data Services

    What Core Data Services (CDS) is, what it does, and why we should make it a priority to learn more about.

  310. Monday morning thoughts: the learning continuum

    I contemplate the idea of the learning continuum, and think about the fact that we're all learning together, which is a good thing.

  311. Monday morning thoughts: programmers and identity

    On how some programmers identify strongly with a particular language, consider the meanings of 'programmer', 'coder' and 'developer', and what it means for us as the SAP enterprise programming landscape changes.

  312. Collaboration tools

  313. The Business Rules service - overview and getting started

  314. Monday morning thoughts: milestones

    I look back at changes and developments that I consider milestones in SAP's technology history, and muse on some of the developments today that we'll consider milestones in the future.

  315. Monday morning thoughts: functions - what functions?

    Musings on the concept of functions-as-a-service, what it means, and what it's good for.

  316. Balancing features with simplicity

  317. Monday morning thoughts: containers and silence

    On the silence of workstations and what that represents to me, and the new ability to look at maintaining software and services in a completely different way - via containers.

  318. Monday morning thoughts: editors and editing

    I look at how the editor environments that we come across in our daily work are different, and, as those differences might grow and expand as we become cloud native, how we bridge the contrast in facilities with core obsessions such as correct indentation and whitespace.

  319. Monday morning thoughts: debugging approach and Greasemonkey revival

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

    On how our modus operandi is often at odds with the true nature of cloud computing.

  321. Monday morning thoughts: a cloud native smell

    On the importance and design of URLs, and the opacity of cattle vs the individuality of pets.

  322. Introduction to SAP Cloud Platform Workflow - Summary

  323. Monday morning thoughts: cloud native

    What does it mean to be "cloud native"?

  324. Becoming an SAP Mentor Alumnus

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

  326. Apps Script - Privacy Policy

  327. Coming Home

  328. Discovering SCP Workflow

  329. Consumption-based SCP Pricing - Initial Thoughts

  330. Things I do to make my work life better

    Notes on how I try to approach practical aspects of my working life.

  331. SCP Business Rules Roadmap - 5 Observations

  332. SAP Cloud Platform Pricing

  333. Fix Blink

  334. Functional programming - baby steps

  335. Meeting Request Details

    More on courtesy and respect at work.

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

  337. YABP - Yet Another Blogging Platform

  338. Best practices for mobile reporting

    To put together a mobile reporting solution, there's a lot to consider. In this post, we show you how to start off and remain on the right track to deliver a solution that really works for your users.

  339. The beauty of recursion and list machinery

  340. Reaching out to the new new kingmakers

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

    It's all very well designing and building a delightful Fiori app. But what about the long tail - supporting that app through its lifetime, with fixes and changes that come along? There's a fifth "D" to the SAP Fiori development mantra, and that "D" is for "Debugging".

  342. Excluding with vim's wildignore

  343. Better collaboration through chemistry

  344. F3C Parts 9 and 10 - Functors

  345. F3C Part 8 - Promises

  346. F3C Part 7 - Recursion

  347. F3C Part 6 - Currying

  348. F3C - A FunFunFunction Companion Series

  349. F3C Part 5 - Closures

  350. F3C Part 4 - Reduce advanced

  351. F3C Part 3 - Reduce basics

  352. F3C Part 2 - Map

  353. F3C Part 1 - Higher-order functions

  354. The Fiori revolution - disruption at its best

  355. Community and Collaboration at SAP Inside Track Manchester

  356. Understanding the SAP Fiori Cloud Edition

  357. Top 10 misconceptions about Fiori

  358. FOFP 2.1 A look at filter

  359. FOFP Fundamentals of functional programming

  360. FOFP 1.5 Creating functions

  361. FOFP 1.4 A different approach with map

  362. FOFP 1.3 Some basic list processing

  363. FOFP 1.2 Trying things out

  364. FOFP 1.1 Introduction

  365. Language minutiae and learning to SWIM

  366. Finding a wonderland number

  367. Enlightenment in action

    On my journey to learn Clojure by solving 4Clojure challenges.

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

  369. 4Clojure Puzzle 66

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

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

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

  373. Quick HCP title hack with the Navigation Manager

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

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

  376. The evolution of the SAP community

  377. "fiux2" Week 2 - Design Your First SAP Fiori App

  378. "fiux2" Week 1 - Get to know Fiori UX

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

    An overview of the blog posts in the series about the 2016 openSAP course on Fiori.

  380. Building blocks of language, structure and thought

    As I travel on my path to perhaps what I deem as some sort of enlightenment, back in time via Clojure to one of the great ancestors of language, structure and computational thought (Lisp), I continue to come across a simple theme.

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

  382. Digital devolution in local authorities - putting people first

    In a couple of weeks' time, Bluefin Solutions is running a one day event on delivering digital devolution in local authorities. If you look closely there's a clear user-centric pattern that is emerging.

  383. Impromptu JS session at UKISUG15

  384. Coffee-time JavaScript recreation

    In preparing for co-presenting a hands-on session at SAP TechEd EMEA this coming week in Barcelona, I came across a chunk of JavaScript. In this post I try to improve it with robustness and immutability in mind.

  385. Speaking at SAP TechEd EMEA 2015

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

  387. Breathing through the reduction meditation

    In this post I look even more closely at a simple Clojure implementation of a reduce function.

  388. My journey to Clojure

    I'm learning Clojure. Slowly, but hopefully surely.

  389. A meditation on reduction

    Looking at a version of the reduce function written in Clojure, from Do Things: a Clojure Crash Course.

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

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

  392. Cookies

  393. Building blocks for the future normal

  394. The origin of becoming a fundamental enabler for Fiori

    30 Days of UI5 - day 30 by Sam Yen.

  395. Revisiting the XML Model

    30 Days of UI5 - day 29 by DJ Adams.

  396. UI5 Version Info

    30 Days of UI5 - day 28 by DJ Adams.

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

    30 Days of UI5 - day 27 by Jon Gregory.

  398. UI5 - looking back and forward

    30 Days of UI5 - day 26 by DJ Adams.

  399. The experimental Client operation mode

    30 Days of UI5 - day 25 by DJ Adams.

  400. An introduction to sap.ui.define

    30 Days of UI5 - day 24 by DJ Adams.

  401. Taming the Resource Model Files

    30 Days of UI5 - day 23 by Nathan Adams.

  402. Merging lists with UI5

    30 Days of UI5 - day 22 by Chris Choy.

  403. Spreading the UI5 Message

    30 Days of UI5 - day 21 by DJ Adams.

  404. Fragments and Minimum Viable Code

    30 Days of UI5 - day 20 by DJ Adams.

  405. A Short UI5 Debugging Journey

    30 Days of UI5 - day 19 by DJ Adams.

  406. MVC - Model View Controller, Minimum Viable Code

    30 Days of UI5 - day 18 by DJ Adams.

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

    30 Days of UI5 - day 17 by John Appleby.

  408. UI5 and Coding Standards

    30 Days of UI5 - day 16 by DJ Adams.

  409. The UI5 Support Tool - Help Yourself!

    30 Days of UI5 - day 15 by DJ Adams.

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

    30 Days of UI5 - day 14 by John Murray.

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

    30 Days of UI5 - day 13 by DJ Adams.

  412. Base Classes in UI5

    30 Days of UI5 - day 12 by Thilo Seidel.

  413. Handling Dates with the Date Picker

    30 Days of UI5 - day 10 by James Hale.

  414. Bootstrapping UI5 Locally and in the Cloud

    30 Days of UI5 - day 9 by DJ Adams.

  415. User Notifications with the Message Popover

    30 Days of UI5 - day 8 by Sean Campbell.

  416. The App Descriptor

    30 Days of UI5 - day 6 by Thilo Seidel.

  417. OpenUI5 Walkthrough

    30 Days of UI5 - day 5 by DJ Adams.

  418. Creating Native Applications with UI5

    30 Days of UI5 - day 4 by John Murray.

  419. Semantic Pages

    30 Days of UI5 - day 3 by DJ Adams.

  420. Expression Binding

    30 Days of UI5 - day 2 by DJ Adams.

  421. Welcome to 30 Days of UI5!

    30 Days of UI5 - overview and day 1 by DJ Adams.

  422. Lightweight notifications with the Message Strip

    30 Days of UI5 - day 11 by DJ Adams.

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

    30 Days of UI5 - day 7 by DJ Adams.

  424. Email discipline

    Email is asynchronous, and that's a good thing.

  425. JSON List Binding and maps

  426. openSAP Experiences

  427. This Week in Fiori (2015-16)

  428. This Week in Fiori (2015-15)

  429. This Week in Fiori (2015-14)

  430. This Week in Fiori (2015-13)

  431. This Week in Fiori (2015-12)

  432. Making Information More Useful

  433. The maker's schedule, restraint and flow

    My thoughts on schedules and saying 'no'.

  434. This Week In Fiori (2015-11)

  435. Why I'm Staying Close to UI5

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

  437. 10 tips to get you started on your Fiori development journey

  438. UI5 features for building responsive apps

  439. Speaking at Mastering SAP Technologies

    I'm travelling to South Africa to give a keynote, a technical session and a hands-on workshop, on Fiori and UI5 topics.

  440. Fiori & UI5 Related Videos

  441. Morning Fiori Fix

  442. OpenUI5 at FOSDEM 2015

  443. Atom, Snippets, Tabs and CSON parsing

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

  445. Running: 2014 in review, and some Clojure

  446. DNA is still in our DNA

  447. The inaugural SAP architect and developer summit

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

  449. Addressing emails

    Showing respect and courtesy by appropriate use of TO and CC.

  450. This Week in Fiori (2014-43)

  451. This Week in Fiori (2014-42)

  452. Speaking at the SAP Architect & Developer Summit

  453. This Week in Fiori (2014-40)

  454. This Week in Fiori (2014-39)

  455. This Week in Fiori (2014-38)

  456. Scratching an itch - UI5 Icon Finder

  457. This Week in Fiori (2014-36)

  458. This Week in Fiori (2014-35)

  459. This Week in Fiori (2014-34)

  460. This Week in Fiori (2014-33)

  461. This Week in Fiori (2014-32)

  462. This Week in Fiori (2014-31)

  463. This Week in Fiori (2014-30)

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

  465. OpenUI5 Tutorial at OSCON 2014

  466. This Week in Fiori (2014-29)

  467. This Week in Fiori (2014-28)

  468. Webinar and more - Understanding SAP Fiori

  469. This Week in Fiori (2014-27)

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

  471. SAP Developer Advisory Board - Your Input!

  472. SAP Mentor Monday on UI5 - Links

  473. Paying IT Forward Links

  474. OpenUI5 CodeTalk Links

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

  476. Reaching Out

  477. Mocking up the Payroll Control Center Fiori App

  478. The essentials - SAPUI5, OpenUI5 and Fiori

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

  480. M is for 'responsive'

  481. Alt-K: Reading Notes

  482. XML Views and Resource Bundle Declarations

  483. UI5 XML Views - Another Example

  484. Help us to help you - share your code

  485. Meta education - or teaching the teachers

  486. Quick hack: Calendar Inviter

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

  488. Custom Sorting and Grouping

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

  490. CodeTalk - SAPUI5 and SAP Fiori

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

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

  493. Mobile Dev Course W3U3 Rewrite - App and Login

  494. Mobile Dev Course W3U3 Rewrite - Index and Structure

  495. Mobile Dev Course W3U3 Rewrite - Intro

  496. Building SAP Fiori-like UIs with SAPUI5

  497. SheetAsJSON - Google Spreadsheet Data as JSON

  498. An Amazing 36 Hours at SAP Labs Israel

  499. Engaging the Next Generation

  500. #YRS2013 Hacks on Github

  501. Happy Birthday SCN, Old Friend

  502. Simple SAPUI5 Chrome icon for lazy developers like me

  503. CodeClub Thoughts

  504. Review of Dark Reserve Nr 3 from Lovibonds

  505. Functional Python - Itertools Exploration

  506. Our computational future

  507. 30 Day Challenge: No Beer!

  508. Public Github repo sapui5bin available

  509. Jump to Shell Workset Item from URL

  510. 30 Days Challenges

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

  512. CodeClub and becoming a STEM Ambassador

  513. The Silent Club and Recharging Alone

  514. OData Everywhere

    Musings on the Open Data Protocol, SAP NetWeaver Gateway, and the importance of both.

  515. Blog It Forward - DJ Adams

  516. Review of Norwegian Wood from Haandbryggeriet

  517. Recent Interests

  518. Serial interest in the Raspberry Pi

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

  520. Two tools for Gateway trial host nplhost

  521. On Enterprise Geeks Podcast

  522. Firebase and SAPUI5

  523. The Developer Connection: Connect Like Never Before

  524. SAPUI5 Powered SCN Forum Finder

  525. New Omniversity Course Video!

  526. Review of Red Rice Ale from Hitachino Nest

  527. SAPUI5 says "Hello OData" to NetWeaver Gateway

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

  529. SAP ICF course marketing: video!

  530. On the Information Diet

  531. The Developer Renaissance

  532. HTML5 @ SAP

  533. SAP Developer Center

  534. Movember - please donate!

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

  536. Moving on ... to Bluefin Solutions

  537. Review of Milk Stout from Left Handed Brewing Co

  538. Reading List Mark 2 - Part 5

  539. Reading List Mark 2 - Part 4

  540. Reading List Mark 2 - Part 3

  541. Reading List Mark 2 - Part 2

  542. Reading List Mark 2 - Part 1

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

  544. Ad-hoc Data Workflows with Google Apps Script

  545. Stand steady on the shoulders of giants

  546. Review of Torpedo from Sierra Nevada

  547. Beer review: Dark Star's Saison

  548. SOA scaffolding and development architects

  549. Review of Saison from Dark Star

  550. Danger! Graduate Conveyor-belt!

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

  552. Gmail Contextual Gadgets - talk at Manchester GTUG

  553. My browser A-Z

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

    I wrote a guest blog post on the Bluefin Solutions website, about the Project Gateway.

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

    This was a guest blog post on Bluefin Solutions website which I wrote to herald a major turning point in SAP software's integration trajectory.

  556. Hacking the Delicious extension for Chrome

  557. Google Visualization API: Manchester GTUG Talk

  558. Not your father's SAP

  559. Getting started with Gmail Contextual Gadgets

  560. Scratching an itch - Magic The Gathering card info

  561. REpresentational State Transfer (REST) and SAP

  562. Tech skills chat with JonERP - a follow-on story

    How I was inspired to read and learn more.

  563. REST orientation - Controlling access to resources

  564. A new REST handler / dispatcher for the ICF

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

  566. SAP and Google Wave - Conversation Augmentation

  567. Book review - SAP Business ONE Implementation

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

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

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

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

  572. 2nd coffeeshop REST/HTTP screencast

  573. Google Wave, XMPP and complexity

  574. Webhooks postbin example for Coffeeshop

  575. First coffeeshop demo screencast

  576. 'Coffeeshop' - lightweight HTTP-based pubsub

    About a lightweight, REST-orientated HTTP-based publish/subscribe implementation that I’ve been working on for the last few days.

  577. Information vs Behaviour

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

  579. Tarpipe REST connector in 5 minutes

  580. Twitter's success

  581. Analysing CV searches with Delicious

  582. SAP everywhere!

  583. An HTTP connector for Tarpipe: 'tarbridge'

  584. tarpipe.com - Programming 2.0?

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

  586. Back from Real Life

    I’m back online, after an eXtended Away in Real Life.

  587. OssNoteFix script updated for Greasemonkey 0.6.4 and Firefox 1.5

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

  589. SAP and Open Source: the debate continues

  590. Acorn Atom and my start in computing

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

  592. MoonOverFailsworth

  593. 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.

  594. 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.

  595. The SAP developer community 10 years ago

    On the early years of the SAP community online.

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

    Big iron and retrocomputing.

  597. SAP: temporary loss of touch with reality?

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

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

  599. 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.

  600. Europe, SAP, and two-way conferences

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

  601. 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?

  602. 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.

  603. SDN Meets Labs gets underway at SAP University

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

  604. Muscle cars

  605. An overcorrection too far?

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

  606. Postcode bookmarklet

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

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

    Cool URIs don't change ... much.

  608. Ralphm on sjabber

    Digging into sjabber's source.

  609. Honest application requirements

    An unusual "user story".

  610. 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.

  611. A fresh start

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

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

  613. Photos from SAP TechEd Munich

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

  614. 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.

  615. 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).

  616. 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).

  617. 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.

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

    I bought three books at Manchester airport yesterday.

  619. A little taste of SAP at EuroFoo

  620. 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.

  621. TechEd talk winners - congrats

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

  622. 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.

  623. 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 :-)

  624. NW4, OSS1 and logon group selection for OSS

    Digging into logon group selection.

  625. SAP at JAX 2004

    A brief report on JAX 2004.

  626. WAS 6.40 testdrive for Linux is here!

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

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

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

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

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

  629. FOSDEM, and small OSS Notes Browser Hack

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

  630. FOSDEM and Brussels, here I come!

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

  631. 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".

  632. Hello, 2004

    2004 is here. Neues Spiel, neues Glück.

  633. SAP TechEd - Collaborative notes

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

  634. 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.

  635. Plums and the antithesis of technology

    I haven’t been online much recently.

  636. Improving the OSS note experience

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

  637. SAP InfoTag on Web Application Server

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

  638. SAP talk at OSCON, and RSS

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

  639. Google Pocket Guide out now

    My new book for O'Reilly is out.

  640. Another great OSCON

    Reflecting on another Open Source Convention.

  641. Thanks, Randal

    Relaxing in an 80's arcade at OSCON.

  642. Dashboard, a compelling articulation for realtime contextual information

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

  643. SAP and Open Source BOF at OSCON

    Merging the enterprise and open source worlds over a beer.

  644. 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.

  645. 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).

  646. 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.

  647. SAP stuff at OSCON

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

  648. 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.

  649. Speaking at OSCON 2003

    Always an honour and a privilege.

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

    The fusion of Hogwarts and Molesworth.

  651. Weblogs and Wikis - Blurring the Boundaries

    More on the crossover between blogging and wikis.

  652. New Blosxom plugin 'submission'

    A generic blogging mechanism for accepting content POSTed to it.

  653. 'Conneg' and the duality of weblogs

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

  654. Tiki parser for MoinMoin

    Embedding the Tiki language into the MoinMoin wiki.

  655. Blosxom 2.0 Beta1

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

  656. RSS aggregators and user-agent information for Blagg

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

  657. Tinkering with RSS and NNTP

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

  658. Your wishlist in 'consumable' XML

    Introducing a new experimental Perl module.

  659. Asleep in 2002

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

  660. The fragility of retro-engineering

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

  661. Transferring my Amazon wishlist to AllConsuming.net

    Scripting to the rescue, as always.

  662. Presentations, Wikis, and Site Navigation

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

  663. Content-Type and Blosxom's RSS

    The perils of unescaped content in feeds.

  664. Wisdom, diplomacy, or serendipity?

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

  665. The universal canvas and RSS apps

    Thoughts on the applicability and utility of the format.

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

    Creating an experimental service based on existing mechanisms.

  667. Creating the "Entry index"

    More on building out how my blog looks.

  668. A new year and a new approach

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

  669. Startups and software patents

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

  670. 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.

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

    What can and should we do about spam?

  672. Ben's RSS book

    A new book on RSS from Ben Hammersley.

  673. RESTifying RT

    Some notes on providing a RESTful API for Request Tracker.

  674. 'Practical RDF' book up for public review

    Shelley Powers' new book.

  675. 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.

  676. 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.

  677. The case of the missing rdf:Description

  678. 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.

  679. XML Scripting, data manipulation, and RDF

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

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

    Using the mod_content module of RSS 1.0.

  681. From RSS 0.91 to 1.0

    Incantations to progress to RSS 1.0.

  682. The RDF in RSS

    Digging into the real truth about the RDF in RSS.

  683. Moving between Mozilla tabs with the keyboard

    An answer to my question on keyboard controllable Mozilal features.

  684. Mozilla "Bookmark This Group of Tabs"

    Improving the browsing experience one feature at a time.

  685. REST, Google, and idempotency

  686. Cacheing on XSLT service

    More on the Mozilla sidebar experiments.

  687. Sidebars, Mozilla, RSS: old and new

    RSS, RDF, XUL, XSLT and more.

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

    Looking back on this year's OSCON.

  689. The OS tables are turning...

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

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

    Some thoughts on The Culture.

  691. The mist is clearing ...

    On my continuing quest to grok REST.

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

    Protocols and formats making up the semantic web.

  693. The 80/20 of HTTP

    Musing on how HTTP is used in the main.

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

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

  695. Programming Jabber review

    A positive review of my O'Reilly book.

  696. Accessibility and Blosxom

    Extending my blogging engine for accessibility.

  697. A change and a rest

    Back recharged from holiday.

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

    Experimenting with Blosxom editing via a different medium.

  699. 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.

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

    An unofficial modification to Blagg.

  701. Changed link tags

    More work on RSS, metadata and discovery.

  702. HTML link tag for Blogroll

    Social network scripting and blog rolls.

  703. Collapse/Expand feature for my Blaggregated display

    Extending Blagg and related features.

  704. Extreme Computing 2002

    Going to the Festival of Inappropriate Technology.

  705. 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 :-).

  706. HTML LINK to RSS source

    Continuing the build-out of weblog based mechanisms.

  707. Top tip

    On falling down the stairs.

  708. ETag-enabled wget

    Adding ETag awareness to the venerable wget utility.

  709. More thoughts on HTTP, Email, and Jabber

    On HTTP headers and queueing architectures.

  710. "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.

  711. The Panopticon

    Extending the Panopticon experiment with XML messaging via Jabber.

  712. Jabberconf Blaggplug version 0+1b

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

  713. (Jabber-)Browsing the Panopticon data

    More on extending the Panopticon experiment.

  714. Amphetadesk Links

    More on feeds, subscriptions and aggregations.

  715. Subscription from Radio

    Maintaining feed metadata.

  716. Mr 80-Percent

  717. Blaggplug: jabberconf

    Aggregation and publish/subscribe.

  718. YARM: Yet Another Referers Mechanism

    Referers, backlinks, and the Unix command line.

  719. One small step ... one giant leap ...

    Calling remote functions over Jabber.

  720. Calendar code

    The calendar script for my sidebar.

  721. Bring on the SSI

    Server Side Includes and Blosxom.

  722. Blosxom vs the world

    The choice and decision to use specific blogging software.

  723. Blog software review

    More on blogging software.

  724. community(disagreement + debate) = inspiration

    The debate between SOAP and REST.

  725. "Blog Locally, Publish Globally"

    On the enduring pattern of local control but global reach.

  726. Other side of the coin: 5335 now resurrected

    RSS, Radio Userland, and redirectors.

  727. Original Peerkat-based weblog back up for reference

    More on Peerkat, a data syndication aggregator.

  728. Coffee Mugs and weblog interop

    Experimenting with Peerkat, feeds and Blosxom.

  729. Cross pollination and blossoming of scripts

    On the growing Blosxom ecosphere.

  730. My bookmarks

    Scripting with bookmarks.

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

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

  732. Interview on jabber.org

    A transcript of my interview on jabber.org.

  733. Hello Blosxom

    A move to the Blosxom blogging software.

  734. Bot window as command line of the future

    Musing on doing more from within the chatbot prompt.

  735. FOSDEM interview

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

  736. 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.