DJ Adams

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  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. CDS source formatting and readability

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

  5. Upcoming talks in autumn 2025

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

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. Excluding specific diagnostics in Neovim

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

  9. A reCAP intro to the cds REPL

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

  10. 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.

  11. Editing Markdown in a Neovim environment

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

  12. 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.

  13. 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.

  14. 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.

  15. 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.

  16. 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.

  17. 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.

  18. 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.

  19. 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.

  20. 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.

  21. 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.

  22. 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.

  23. 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.

  24. 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.

  25. CAP Node.js Plugins

  26. TASC Notes - Part 6

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

  28. TASC Notes - Part 5

  29. TASC Notes - Part 4

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

  31. The Art and Science of CAP

  32. TASC Notes - Part 3

  33. TASC Notes - Part 2

  34. Creating the new Tech Aloud intro and outro music

  35. Flattening the hierarchy with mixins

  36. Five reasons to use CAP

  37. Separating concerns and focusing on the important stuff

  38. Restricting access via facets with masked elements

  39. Keeping things simple in domain modelling with CDS

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

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

  42. TASC Notes - Part 1

  43. Setting up a cache server for apt packages

  44. New source for LXD images on Crostini

  45. Using lazydocker with SSH-based remote contexts

  46. Automatic validation in OData and REST calls with CAP

  47. reduce - the ur-function

  48. Highest value in JS - different ways

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

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

  51. Digging into CSN diffs for CDS models

  52. CodeTalk interview - living and working on a narrowboat

  53. Using ARG in a Dockerfile - beware the gotcha

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

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

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

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

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

  59. Running non-production CAP services in CF

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

  61. Improve your CAP dev container shell prompt

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

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

  64. CAP, CORS and custom headers

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

  66. Curating a collection of jq functions

  67. ISO content for common CAP types

  68. Quick conversion of multiple values using with_entries in jq

  69. Opening files from the terminal in BAS dev spaces

  70. Successful double CodeJam in Wroclaw and Warsaw

  71. Ghost cratch fitted

  72. Exploring codespaces as temporary dev containers

  73. Accuracy and precision in language

  74. Developing CAP in containers - three ways

  75. Battlestation 2024

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

  77. Using the docker CLI in a container on macOS

  78. From Twitter to Mastodon

  79. Tmux plugin development with a local repo

  80. TIL - Two Tmux Plugin Manager features

  81. Solving the SAP TechEd Easter Egg on the Web

  82. Devtoberfest - the best developer prep for SAP TechEd

  83. Bash shell expansion inside double quotes

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

  85. Curing my stove aboard the narrowboat

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

  87. Resources for navigating the canal network

  88. Oil change and a visit to Mercia Marina

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

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

  91. SAP CodeJam on Service Integration with CAP in Brescia

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

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

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

  95. Double SAP BTP goodness in Isernhagen

  96. Recognising patterns and embracing the stream

  97. Learning from community solutions on Exercism - part 3

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

  99. Learning from community solutions on Exercism - part 2

  100. Learning from community solutions on Exercism - part 1

  101. SAP community memories

  102. A deep dive into OData and CDS annotations

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

  104. SAP CodeJam on Service Integration with CAP in Utrecht

  105. Living on a narrowboat - embracing constraints

  106. Working from a narrowboat - Internet connectivity

  107. I'm moving onto a narrowboat

  108. Learning from exploring a question on jq

  109. Array push with autovivification in jq

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

  111. Extracting blog post dates from URLs with jq

  112. Some notes on modular JSON Schema definitions

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

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

  115. Stop asking for slides in advance

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

  117. Untappd data with jq - my top brewery countries

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

  119. Summing and grouping values with jq

  120. Reshaping data values using jq's with_entries

  121. Multiple level filters in jq

  122. Products by supplier in OData and jq

  123. Exploring JSON with interactive jq

  124. JSON object values into CSV with jq

  125. Exploring GitHub repo name distribution with jq

  126. Converting strings to objects with jq

  127. Some thoughts on jq and statelessness

  128. Bash notes 3

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

  130. Bash notes 2

  131. Bash notes

  132. Understanding jq's reduce function

  133. Setting up my own Cloud Foundry

  134. Exercism and jq

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

  136. How I got involved in the SAP community

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

  138. Truncation and neat terminal output

  139. Controlling Chrome from the CLI

  140. Setting up hadolint - a Dockerfile linter

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

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

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

  144. Exploring fff part 2 - get_ls_colors

  145. Embracing jq and JSON

  146. Sourcing vs executing in Bash

  147. SAP Tech Bytes: btp CLI - autocompletion

  148. Using functions more

  149. SAP Tech Bytes: btp CLI - managing configuration

  150. Improving shell fu with practice

  151. SAP Tech Bytes: btp CLI – logging in

  152. Exploring fff part 1 - main

  153. SAP Tech Bytes: btp CLI - installation

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

  155. Today's TIL trio

  156. Session switching with the tmux menu

  157. tmux output formatting

  158. Reopening pull requests and GITHUB_ACTOR

  159. Unix tooling - join, don't extend

  160. Early thoughts on Warp

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

  162. Remote access to Docker on my Synology NAS

  163. Adding a drive to my Synology NAS

  164. Equality in tech

  165. Supporting developers with sponsorship

  166. Notes on Markdown linting - part 2

  167. Notes on Markdown linting - part 1

  168. Solving mysterious unrendered markdown headings

  169. Unpacking Bash shell tips from a GitHub Actions workflow

  170. GitHub Actions workflow browser

  171. Producing JSON with jq for appending issue titles

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

  173. Mainframes, SDSF and GitHub Actions

  174. New tmux panes and windows in the right directory

  175. Deeper connections to everyday tools

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

  177. La Pavoni maintenance successful

  178. Mass deletion of GitHub Actions workflow runs

  179. A new journal experiment - Thinking Aloud

  180. Aborting a script with parameter expansion

  181. SAP TechEd Developer Keynote - Info Central

  182. SAP Tech Bytes: Approuter User API Service

  183. fzf - the basics part 2 - search results

  184. Thoughts on video content

  185. fzf - the basics part 1 - layout

  186. Do less and do it better

  187. Columnar layout with AWK

  188. From Classics to Developer Advocate

  189. Updating your fork of the Developer Keynote repository

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

  191. SAP TechEd 2020 Channel 1 at home

  192. Implicit values in Bash for loop construct

  193. UTFRW - Unofficial TechEd Fun Run / Walk

  194. SAP TechEd Developer Keynote DK100 - The Story

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

  196. An overview of SAP Developers video content

  197. The myriad meanings of pwd in Unix systems

  198. Computer Unit 1979

  199. The subtle art of quoting newline characters

  200. Case modification operators in parameter substitution

  201. MID$ and shell parameter expansion

  202. Understanding declare

  203. Desnowballification with set -o errexit

  204. Improving my shell scripting

  205. curl and multipart/form-data

  206. Checking a command is available before use

  207. Using exec to jump

  208. A new learning source for shell scripting

  209. Shell parameter expansion with :+ is useful

  210. Reducing writing friction

  211. Programmer's Day Mission 2020

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

  213. The open square bracket [ is an executable

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

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

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

  217. git diff can emit different exit codes

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

  219. SAP NPM packages now on npmjs.org

  220. Removing the knob on a La Pavoni steam valve

  221. SAP Community Coding Challenge 2 - Finalists

  222. SAP Community Coding Challenge 2 - Contestants

  223. Remote mount setup on the Raspberry Pi

  224. SAP Community Coding Challenge 2 - Update

  225. Terminal Tip: a CF remote monitor script

  226. SAP Community Coding Challenge Nr.2

  227. Terminal Tip: remotely monitor a CF deployment

  228. Terminal Tip: switching CF targets

  229. Terminal Tip: parsing CF app logs

  230. Terminal Tip: truncating CF output

  231. Initial Pi configuration via Ansible

  232. Code at Home episodes

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

  234. Starting out with Raspberry Pi experiments

  235. Preparing the OS image

  236. Finding the Pis on the network

  237. Brambleweeny Cluster Experiments

  238. Mini adventures with MTAs and the Cloud Foundry CLI

  239. Scripting Cloud Foundry activities in trial

  240. My learning list for 2020

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

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

  243. CAP is important because it's not important

  244. Shell power and simplicity

  245. Submit suggestions for Tech Aloud during SAP TechEd 2019

  246. Tech Aloud podcast - an introduction

  247. New podcast - Tech Aloud

  248. Happy Programmers Day!

  249. Hitch Hiker's style in Sea of Sorrows

  250. Computed field example in CAP

  251. We can do better than 'polynimbus'

  252. The Observer's Book of JS Style

  253. David Edward Adams

  254. Double SAP CodeJam Athens - a report

  255. Revisiting UI5 on CodeTalk

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

  257. ES6, reduce and pipe

  258. Vim, Markdown and writing

  259. Housekeeping

  260. Monday morning thoughts: looking back and forwards

  261. Monday morning thoughts: digging deeper

  262. Monday morning thoughts: indirect influence

  263. Monday morning thoughts: learning media and mechanisms

  264. Monday morning thoughts: rethinking like the web

  265. Monday morning thoughts: longevity and loose coupling

  266. Monday morning thoughts: on starting blogging

  267. Monday morning thoughts: exploring reuse

  268. Monday morning thoughts: dynamic language

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

  270. Monday morning thoughts: big school and community

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

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

  273. Monday morning thoughts: impostor syndrome

  274. Monday morning thoughts: growth is upwards

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

  276. Monday morning thoughts: ABAP in the cloud

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

  278. Monday morning thoughts: considering GraphQL

  279. Monday morning thoughts: a good blog post

  280. Monday morning thoughts: OData

  281. Monday morning thoughts: the cloud is the computer

  282. Monday morning thoughts: mainframes and message documentation

  283. SAP CodeTalk sessions

  284. Monday morning thoughts: local http servers and containerisation

  285. Monday morning thoughts: what not how

  286. Monday morning thoughts: abstraction

  287. Monday morning thoughts: curiosity and understanding

  288. Monday morning thoughts: developers and advocacy

  289. Monday morning thoughts: programming models

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

  291. Monday morning thoughts: community engagement

  292. Monday morning thoughts: Core Data Services

  293. Monday morning thoughts: the learning continuum

  294. Monday morning thoughts: programmers and identity

  295. Collaboration tools

  296. The Business Rules service - overview and getting started

  297. Monday morning thoughts: milestones

  298. Monday morning thoughts: functions - what functions?

  299. Balancing features with simplicity

  300. Monday morning thoughts: containers and silence

  301. Monday morning thoughts: editors and editing

  302. Monday morning thoughts: debugging approach and Greasemonkey revival

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

  304. Monday morning thoughts: a cloud native smell

  305. Introduction to SAP Cloud Platform Workflow - Summary

  306. Monday morning thoughts: cloud native

  307. Becoming an SAP Mentor Alumnus

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

  309. Apps Script - Privacy Policy

  310. Coming Home

  311. Discovering SCP Workflow

  312. Consumption-based SCP Pricing - Initial Thoughts

  313. Things I do to make my work life better

  314. SCP Business Rules Roadmap - 5 Observations

  315. SAP Cloud Platform Pricing

  316. Fix Blink

  317. Functional programming - baby steps

  318. Meeting Request Details

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

  320. YABP - Yet Another Blogging Platform

  321. Best practices for mobile reporting

  322. The beauty of recursion and list machinery

  323. Reaching out to the new new kingmakers

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

  325. Excluding with vim's wildignore

  326. Better collaboration through chemistry

  327. F3C Parts 9 and 10 - Functors

  328. F3C Part 8 - Promises

  329. F3C Part 7 - Recursion

  330. F3C Part 6 - Currying

  331. F3C - A FunFunFunction Companion Series

  332. F3C Part 5 - Closures

  333. F3C Part 4 - Reduce advanced

  334. F3C Part 3 - Reduce basics

  335. F3C Part 2 - Map

  336. F3C Part 1 - Higher-order functions

  337. The Fiori revolution - disruption at its best

  338. Community and Collaboration at SAP Inside Track Manchester

  339. Understanding the SAP Fiori Cloud Edition

  340. Top 10 misconceptions about Fiori

  341. FOFP 2.1 A look at filter

  342. FOFP Fundamentals of functional programming

  343. FOFP 1.5 Creating functions

  344. FOFP 1.4 A different approach with map

  345. FOFP 1.3 Some basic list processing

  346. FOFP 1.2 Trying things out

  347. FOFP 1.1 Introduction

  348. Language minutiae and learning to SWIM

  349. Finding a wonderland number

  350. Enlightenment in action

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

  352. 4Clojure Puzzle 66

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

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

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

  356. Quick HCP title hack with the Navigation Manager

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

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

  359. The evolution of the SAP community

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

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

  362. Building blocks of language, structure and thought

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

  364. Digital devolution in local authorities - putting people first

  365. Impromptu JS session at UKISUG15

  366. Speaking at SAP TechEd EMEA 2015

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

  368. My journey to Clojure

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

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

  371. Cookies

  372. Building blocks for the future normal

  373. The origin of becoming a fundamental enabler for Fiori

  374. Revisiting the XML Model

  375. UI5 Version Info

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

  377. UI5 - looking back and forward

  378. The experimental Client operation mode

  379. An introduction to sap.ui.define

  380. Taming the Resource Model Files

  381. Merging lists with UI5

  382. Spreading the UI5 Message

  383. Fragments and Minimum Viable Code

  384. A Short UI5 Debugging Journey

  385. MVC - Model View Controller, Minimum Viable Code

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

  387. UI5 and Coding Standards

  388. The UI5 Support Tool - Help Yourself!

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

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

  391. Base Classes in UI5

  392. Handling Dates with the Date Picker

  393. Bootstrapping UI5 Locally and in the Cloud

  394. User Notifications with the Message Popover

  395. The App Descriptor

  396. OpenUI5 Walkthrough

  397. Creating Native Applications with UI5

  398. Semantic Pages

  399. Expression Binding

  400. Lightweight notifications with the Message Strip

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

  402. Welcome to 30 Days of UI5!

  403. Email Discipline

  404. JSON List Binding and maps

  405. openSAP Experiences

  406. This Week in Fiori (2015-16)

  407. This Week in Fiori (2015-15)

  408. This Week in Fiori (2015-14)

  409. This Week in Fiori (2015-13)

  410. This Week in Fiori (2015-12)

  411. Making Information More Useful

  412. The Maker's Schedule, Restraint and Flow

  413. This Week In Fiori (2015-11)

  414. Why I'm Staying Close to UI5

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

  416. 10 tips to get you started on your Fiori development journey

  417. UI5 features for building responsive apps

  418. Speaking at Mastering SAP Technologies

  419. Fiori & UI5 Related Videos

  420. Morning Fiori Fix

  421. OpenUI5 at FOSDEM 2015

  422. Atom, Snippets, Tabs and CSON parsing

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

  424. Running: 2014 in review, and some Clojure

  425. DNA is still in our DNA

  426. The inaugural SAP architect and developer summit

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

  428. Addressing Emails

  429. This Week in Fiori (2014-43)

  430. This Week in Fiori (2014-42)

  431. Speaking at the SAP Architect & Developer Summit

  432. This Week in Fiori (2014-40)

  433. This Week in Fiori (2014-39)

  434. This Week in Fiori (2014-38)

  435. Scratching an itch - UI5 Icon Finder

  436. This Week in Fiori (2014-36)

  437. This Week in Fiori (2014-35)

  438. This Week in Fiori (2014-34)

  439. This Week in Fiori (2014-33)

  440. This Week in Fiori (2014-32)

  441. This Week in Fiori (2014-31)

  442. This Week in Fiori (2014-30)

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

  444. OpenUI5 Tutorial at OSCON 2014

  445. This Week in Fiori (2014-29)

  446. This Week in Fiori (2014-28)

  447. Webinar and more - Understanding SAP Fiori

  448. This Week in Fiori (2014-27)

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

  450. SAP Developer Advisory Board - Your Input!

  451. SAP Mentor Monday on UI5 - Links

  452. Paying IT Forward Links

  453. OpenUI5 CodeTalk Links

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

  455. Reaching Out

  456. Mocking up the Payroll Control Center Fiori App

  457. The essentials - SAPUI5, OpenUI5 and Fiori

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

  459. M is for 'responsive'

  460. Alt-K: Reading Notes

  461. XML Views and Resource Bundle Declarations

  462. UI5 XML Views - Another Example

  463. Help Us To Help You - Share Your Code

  464. Meta education - or teaching the teachers

  465. Quick hack: Calendar Inviter

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

  467. Custom Sorting and Grouping

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

  469. CodeTalk - SAPUI5 and SAP Fiori

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

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

  472. Mobile Dev Course W3U3 Rewrite - App and Login

  473. Mobile Dev Course W3U3 Rewrite - Index and Structure

  474. Mobile Dev Course W3U3 Rewrite - Intro

  475. Building SAP Fiori-like UIs with SAPUI5

  476. SheetAsJSON - Google Spreadsheet Data as JSON

  477. An Amazing 36 Hours at SAP Labs Israel

  478. Engaging the Next Generation

  479. #YRS2013 Hacks on Github

  480. Happy Birthday SCN, Old Friend

  481. Simple SAPUI5 Chrome icon for lazy developers like me

  482. CodeClub Thoughts

  483. Review of Dark Reserve Nr 3 from Lovibonds

  484. Functional Python - Itertools Exploration

  485. Our computational future

  486. 30 Day Challenge: No Beer!

  487. Public Github repo sapui5bin available

  488. Jump to Shell Workset Item from URL

  489. 30 Days Challenges

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

  491. CodeClub and becoming a STEM Ambassador

  492. The Silent Club and Recharging Alone

  493. OData Everywhere

  494. Blog It Forward - DJ Adams

  495. Review of Norwegian Wood from Haandbryggeriet

  496. Recent Interests

  497. Serial interest in the Raspberry Pi

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

  499. Two tools for Gateway trial host nplhost

  500. On Enterprise Geeks Podcast

  501. Firebase and SAPUI5

  502. The Developer Connection: Connect Like Never Before

  503. SAPUI5 Powered SCN Forum Finder

  504. New Omniversity Course Video!

  505. Review of Red Rice Ale from Hitachino Nest

  506. SAPUI5 says "Hello OData" to NetWeaver Gateway

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

  508. SAP ICF course marketing: video!

  509. On the Information Diet

  510. The Developer Renaissance

  511. HTML5 @ SAP

  512. SAP Developer Center

  513. Movember - please donate!

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

  515. Moving on ... to Bluefin Solutions

  516. Review of Milk Stout from Left Handed Brewing Co

  517. Reading List Mark 2 - Part 5

  518. Reading List Mark 2 - Part 4

  519. Reading List Mark 2 - Part 3

  520. Reading List Mark 2 - Part 2

  521. Reading List Mark 2 - Part 1

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

  523. Ad-hoc Data Workflows with Google Apps Script

  524. Stand steady on the shoulders of giants

  525. Review of Torpedo from Sierra Nevada

  526. Beer review: Dark Star's Saison

  527. SOA scaffolding and development architects

  528. Review of Saison from Dark Star

  529. Danger! Graduate Conveyor-belt!

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

  531. Gmail Contextual Gadgets - talk at Manchester GTUG

  532. My browser A-Z

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

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

  535. Hacking the Delicious extension for Chrome

  536. Google Visualization API: Manchester GTUG Talk

  537. Not your father's SAP

  538. Getting started with Gmail Contextual Gadgets

  539. Scratching an itch - Magic The Gathering card info

  540. REpresentational State Transfer (REST) and SAP

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

  542. REST orientation - Controlling access to resources

  543. A new REST handler / dispatcher for the ICF

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

  545. SAP and Google Wave - Conversation Augmentation

  546. Book review - SAP Business ONE Implementation

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

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

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

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

  551. 2nd coffeeshop REST/HTTP screencast

  552. Google Wave, XMPP and complexity

  553. Webhooks postbin example for Coffeeshop

  554. First coffeeshop demo screencast

  555. 'Coffeeshop' - lightweight HTTP-based pubsub

  556. Information vs Behaviour

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

  558. Tarpipe REST connector in 5 minutes

  559. Twitter's success

  560. Analysing CV searches with Delicious

  561. SAP everywhere!

  562. An HTTP connector for Tarpipe: 'tarbridge'

  563. tarpipe.com - Programming 2.0?

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

  565. Back from Real Life

  566. OssNoteFix script updated for Greasemonkey 0.6.4 and Firefox 1.5

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

  568. SAP and Open Source: the debate continues

  569. Acorn Atom and my start in computing

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

  571. MoonOverFailsworth

  572. 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.

  573. 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.

  574. The SAP developer community 10 years ago

    On the early years of the SAP community online.

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

    Big iron and retrocomputing.

  576. SAP: temporary loss of touch with reality?

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

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

  578. 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.

  579. Europe, SAP, and two-way conferences

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

  580. 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?

  581. 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.

  582. SDN Meets Labs gets underway at SAP University

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

  583. Muscle cars

  584. An overcorrection too far?

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

  585. Postcode bookmarklet

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

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

    Cool URIs don't change ... much.

  587. Ralphm on sjabber

    Digging into sjabber's source.

  588. Honest application requirements

    An unusual "user story".

  589. 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.

  590. A fresh start

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

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

  592. Photos from SAP TechEd Munich

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

  593. 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.

  594. 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).

  595. 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).

  596. 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.

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

    I bought three books at Manchester airport yesterday.

  598. A little taste of SAP at EuroFoo

  599. 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.

  600. TechEd talk winners - congrats

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

  601. 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.

  602. 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 :-)

  603. NW4, OSS1 and logon group selection for OSS

    Digging into logon group selection.

  604. SAP at JAX 2004

    A brief report on JAX 2004.

  605. WAS 6.40 testdrive for Linux is here!

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

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

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

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

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

  608. FOSDEM, and small OSS Notes Browser Hack

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

  609. FOSDEM and Brussels, here I come!

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

  610. 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".

  611. Hello, 2004

    2004 is here. Neues Spiel, neues Glück.

  612. SAP TechEd - Collaborative notes

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

  613. 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.

  614. Plums and the antithesis of technology

    I haven’t been online much recently.

  615. Improving the OSS note experience

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

  616. SAP InfoTag on Web Application Server

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

  617. SAP talk at OSCON, and RSS

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

  618. Google Pocket Guide out now

    My new book for O'Reilly is out.

  619. Another great OSCON

    Reflecting on another Open Source Convention.

  620. Thanks, Randal

    Relaxing in an 80's arcade at OSCON.

  621. Dashboard, a compelling articulation for realtime contextual information

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

  622. SAP and Open Source BOF at OSCON

    Merging the enterprise and open source worlds over a beer.

  623. 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.

  624. 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).

  625. 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.

  626. SAP stuff at OSCON

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

  627. 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.

  628. Speaking at OSCON 2003

    Always an honour and a privilege.

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

    The fusion of Hogwarts and Molesworth.

  630. Weblogs and Wikis - Blurring the Boundaries

    More on the crossover between blogging and wikis.

  631. New Blosxom plugin 'submission'

    A generic blogging mechanism for accepting content POSTed to it.

  632. 'Conneg' and the duality of weblogs

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

  633. Tiki parser for MoinMoin

    Embedding the Tiki language into the MoinMoin wiki.

  634. Blosxom 2.0 Beta1

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

  635. RSS aggregators and user-agent information for Blagg

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

  636. Tinkering with RSS and NNTP

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

  637. Your wishlist in 'consumable' XML

    Introducing a new experimental Perl module.

  638. Asleep in 2002

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

  639. The fragility of retro-engineering

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

  640. Transferring my Amazon wishlist to AllConsuming.net

    Scripting to the rescue, as always.

  641. Presentations, Wikis, and Site Navigation

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

  642. Content-Type and Blosxom's RSS

    The perils of unescaped content in feeds.

  643. Wisdom, diplomacy, or serendipity?

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

  644. The universal canvas and RSS apps

    Thoughts on the applicability and utility of the format.

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

    Creating an experimental service based on existing mechanisms.

  646. Creating the "Entry index"

    More on building out how my blog looks.

  647. A new year and a new approach

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

  648. Startups and software patents

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

  649. 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.

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

    What can and should we do about spam?

  651. Ben's RSS book

    A new book on RSS from Ben Hammersley.

  652. RESTifying RT

    Some notes on providing a RESTful API for Request Tracker.

  653. 'Practical RDF' book up for public review

    Shelley Powers' new book.

  654. 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.

  655. 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.

  656. The case of the missing rdf:Description

  657. 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.

  658. XML Scripting, data manipulation, and RDF

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

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

    Using the mod_content module of RSS 1.0.

  660. From RSS 0.91 to 1.0

    Incantations to progress to RSS 1.0.

  661. The RDF in RSS

    Digging into the real truth about the RDF in RSS.

  662. Moving between Mozilla tabs with the keyboard

    An answer to my question on keyboard controllable Mozilal features.

  663. Mozilla "Bookmark This Group of Tabs"

    Improving the browsing experience one feature at a time.

  664. REST, Google, and idempotency

  665. Cacheing on XSLT service

    More on the Mozilla sidebar experiments.

  666. Sidebars, Mozilla, RSS: old and new

    RSS, RDF, XUL, XSLT and more.

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

    Looking back on this year's OSCON.

  668. The OS tables are turning...

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

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

    Some thoughts on The Culture.

  670. The mist is clearing ...

    On my continuing quest to grok REST.

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

    Protocols and formats making up the semantic web.

  672. The 80/20 of HTTP

    Musing on how HTTP is used in the main.

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

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

  674. Programming Jabber review

    A positive review of my O'Reilly book.

  675. Accessibility and Blosxom

    Extending my blogging engine for accessibility.

  676. A change and a rest

    Back recharged from holiday.

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

    Experimenting with Blosxom editing via a different medium.

  678. 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.

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

    An unofficial modification to Blagg.

  680. Changed link tags

    More work on RSS, metadata and discovery.

  681. HTML link tag for Blogroll

    Social network scripting and blog rolls.

  682. Collapse/Expand feature for my Blaggregated display

    Extending Blagg and related features.

  683. Extreme Computing 2002

    Going to the Festival of Inappropriate Technology.

  684. 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 :-).

  685. HTML LINK to RSS source

    Continuing the build-out of weblog based mechanisms.

  686. Top tip

    On falling down the stairs.

  687. ETag-enabled wget

    Adding ETag awareness to the venerable wget utility.

  688. More thoughts on HTTP, Email, and Jabber

    On HTTP headers and queueing architectures.

  689. "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.

  690. The Panopticon

    Extending the Panopticon experiment with XML messaging via Jabber.

  691. Jabberconf Blaggplug version 0+1b

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

  692. (Jabber-)Browsing the Panopticon data

    More on extending the Panopticon experiment.

  693. Amphetadesk Links

    More on feeds, subscriptions and aggregations.

  694. Subscription from Radio

    Maintaining feed metadata.

  695. Mr 80-Percent

  696. Blaggplug: jabberconf

    Aggregation and publish/subscribe.

  697. YARM: Yet Another Referers Mechanism

    Referers, backlinks, and the Unix command line.

  698. One small step ... one giant leap ...

    Calling remote functions over Jabber.

  699. Calendar code

    The calendar script for my sidebar.

  700. Bring on the SSI

    Server Side Includes and Blosxom.

  701. Blosxom vs the world

    The choice and decision to use specific blogging software.

  702. Blog software review

    More on blogging software.

  703. community(disagreement + debate) = inspiration

    The debate between SOAP and REST.

  704. "Blog Locally, Publish Globally"

    On the enduring pattern of local control but global reach.

  705. Other side of the coin: 5335 now resurrected

    RSS, Radio Userland, and redirectors.

  706. Original Peerkat-based weblog back up for reference

    More on Peerkat, a data syndication aggregator.

  707. Coffee Mugs and weblog interop

    Experimenting with Peerkat, feeds and Blosxom.

  708. Cross pollination and blossoming of scripts

    On the growing Blosxom ecosphere.

  709. My bookmarks

    Scripting with bookmarks.

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

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

  711. Interview on jabber.org

    A transcript of my interview on jabber.org.

  712. Hello Blosxom

    A move to the Blosxom blogging software.

  713. Bot window as command line of the future

    Musing on doing more from within the chatbot prompt.

  714. FOSDEM interview

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

  715. 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.