DJ Adams

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

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

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. Some ramblings on simple CDS modelling with CDL

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

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. CDS source formatting and readability

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

  11. Upcoming talks in autumn 2025

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

  12. 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.

  13. 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.

  14. Excluding specific diagnostics in Neovim

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

  15. A reCAP intro to the cds REPL

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

  16. 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.

  17. Editing Markdown in a Neovim environment

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

  18. 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.

  19. 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.

  20. 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.

  21. 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.

  22. 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.

  23. 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.

  24. 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.

  25. 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.

  26. 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.

  27. 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.

  28. 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.

  29. 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.

  30. 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.

  31. CAP Node.js Plugins

  32. TASC Notes - Part 6

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

  34. TASC Notes - Part 5

  35. TASC Notes - Part 4

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

  37. The Art and Science of CAP

  38. TASC Notes - Part 3

  39. TASC Notes - Part 2

  40. Creating the new Tech Aloud intro and outro music

  41. Flattening the hierarchy with mixins

  42. Five reasons to use CAP

  43. Separating concerns and focusing on the important stuff

  44. Restricting access via facets with masked elements

  45. Keeping things simple in domain modelling with CDS

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

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

  48. TASC Notes - Part 1

  49. Setting up a cache server for apt packages

  50. New source for LXD images on Crostini

  51. Using lazydocker with SSH-based remote contexts

  52. Automatic validation in OData and REST calls with CAP

  53. reduce - the ur-function

  54. Highest value in JS - different ways

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

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

  57. Digging into CSN diffs for CDS models

  58. CodeTalk interview - living and working on a narrowboat

  59. Using ARG in a Dockerfile - beware the gotcha

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

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

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

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

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

  65. Running non-production CAP services in CF

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

  67. Improve your CAP dev container shell prompt

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

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

  70. CAP, CORS and custom headers

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

  72. Curating a collection of jq functions

  73. ISO content for common CAP types

  74. Quick conversion of multiple values using with_entries in jq

  75. Opening files from the terminal in BAS dev spaces

  76. Successful double CodeJam in Wroclaw and Warsaw

  77. Ghost cratch fitted

  78. Exploring codespaces as temporary dev containers

  79. Accuracy and precision in language

  80. Developing CAP in containers - three ways

  81. Battlestation 2024

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

  83. Using the docker CLI in a container on macOS

  84. From Twitter to Mastodon

  85. Tmux plugin development with a local repo

  86. TIL - Two Tmux Plugin Manager features

  87. Solving the SAP TechEd Easter Egg on the Web

  88. Devtoberfest - the best developer prep for SAP TechEd

  89. Bash shell expansion inside double quotes

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

  91. Curing my stove aboard the narrowboat

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

  93. Resources for navigating the canal network

  94. Oil change and a visit to Mercia Marina

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

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

  97. SAP CodeJam on Service Integration with CAP in Brescia

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

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

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

  101. Double SAP BTP goodness in Isernhagen

  102. Recognising patterns and embracing the stream

  103. Learning from community solutions on Exercism - part 3

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

  105. Learning from community solutions on Exercism - part 2

  106. Learning from community solutions on Exercism - part 1

  107. SAP community memories

  108. A deep dive into OData and CDS annotations

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

  110. SAP CodeJam on Service Integration with CAP in Utrecht

  111. Living on a narrowboat - embracing constraints

  112. Working from a narrowboat - Internet connectivity

  113. I'm moving onto a narrowboat

  114. Learning from exploring a question on jq

  115. Array push with autovivification in jq

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

  117. Extracting blog post dates from URLs with jq

  118. Some notes on modular JSON Schema definitions

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

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

  121. Stop asking for slides in advance

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

  123. Untappd data with jq - my top brewery countries

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

  125. Summing and grouping values with jq

  126. Reshaping data values using jq's with_entries

  127. Multiple level filters in jq

  128. Products by supplier in OData and jq

  129. Exploring JSON with interactive jq

  130. JSON object values into CSV with jq

  131. Exploring GitHub repo name distribution with jq

  132. Converting strings to objects with jq

  133. Some thoughts on jq and statelessness

  134. Bash notes 3

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

  136. Bash notes 2

  137. Bash notes

  138. Understanding jq's reduce function

  139. Setting up my own Cloud Foundry

  140. Exercism and jq

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

  142. How I got involved in the SAP community

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

  144. Truncation and neat terminal output

  145. Controlling Chrome from the CLI

  146. Setting up hadolint - a Dockerfile linter

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

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

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

  150. Exploring fff part 2 - get_ls_colors

  151. Embracing jq and JSON

  152. Sourcing vs executing in Bash

  153. SAP Tech Bytes: btp CLI - autocompletion

  154. Using functions more

  155. SAP Tech Bytes: btp CLI - managing configuration

  156. Improving shell fu with practice

  157. SAP Tech Bytes: btp CLI – logging in

  158. Exploring fff part 1 - main

  159. SAP Tech Bytes: btp CLI - installation

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

  161. Today's TIL trio

  162. Session switching with the tmux menu

  163. tmux output formatting

  164. Reopening pull requests and GITHUB_ACTOR

  165. Unix tooling - join, don't extend

  166. Early thoughts on Warp

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

  168. Remote access to Docker on my Synology NAS

  169. Adding a drive to my Synology NAS

  170. Equality in tech

  171. Supporting developers with sponsorship

  172. Notes on Markdown linting - part 2

  173. Notes on Markdown linting - part 1

  174. Solving mysterious unrendered markdown headings

  175. Unpacking Bash shell tips from a GitHub Actions workflow

  176. GitHub Actions workflow browser

  177. Producing JSON with jq for appending issue titles

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

  179. Mainframes, SDSF and GitHub Actions

  180. New tmux panes and windows in the right directory

  181. Deeper connections to everyday tools

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

  183. La Pavoni maintenance successful

  184. Mass deletion of GitHub Actions workflow runs

  185. A new journal experiment - Thinking Aloud

  186. Aborting a script with parameter expansion

  187. SAP TechEd Developer Keynote - Info Central

  188. SAP Tech Bytes: Approuter User API Service

  189. fzf - the basics part 2 - search results

  190. Thoughts on video content

  191. fzf - the basics part 1 - layout

  192. Do less and do it better

  193. Columnar layout with AWK

  194. From Classics to Developer Advocate

  195. Updating your fork of the Developer Keynote repository

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

  197. SAP TechEd 2020 Channel 1 at home

  198. Implicit values in Bash for loop construct

  199. UTFRW - Unofficial TechEd Fun Run / Walk

  200. SAP TechEd Developer Keynote DK100 - The Story

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

  202. An overview of SAP Developers video content

  203. The myriad meanings of pwd in Unix systems

  204. Computer Unit 1979

  205. The subtle art of quoting newline characters

  206. Case modification operators in parameter substitution

  207. MID$ and shell parameter expansion

  208. Understanding declare

  209. Desnowballification with set -o errexit

  210. Improving my shell scripting

  211. curl and multipart/form-data

  212. Checking a command is available before use

  213. Using exec to jump

  214. A new learning source for shell scripting

  215. Shell parameter expansion with :+ is useful

  216. Reducing writing friction

  217. Programmer's Day Mission 2020

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

  219. The open square bracket [ is an executable

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

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

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

  223. git diff can emit different exit codes

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

  225. SAP NPM packages now on npmjs.org

  226. Removing the knob on a La Pavoni steam valve

  227. SAP Community Coding Challenge 2 - Finalists

  228. SAP Community Coding Challenge 2 - Contestants

  229. Remote mount setup on the Raspberry Pi

  230. SAP Community Coding Challenge 2 - Update

  231. Terminal Tip: a CF remote monitor script

  232. SAP Community Coding Challenge Nr.2

  233. Terminal Tip: remotely monitor a CF deployment

  234. Terminal Tip: switching CF targets

  235. Terminal Tip: parsing CF app logs

  236. Terminal Tip: truncating CF output

  237. Initial Pi configuration via Ansible

  238. Code at Home episodes

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

  240. Starting out with Raspberry Pi experiments

  241. Preparing the OS image

  242. Finding the Pis on the network

  243. Brambleweeny Cluster Experiments

  244. Mini adventures with MTAs and the Cloud Foundry CLI

  245. Scripting Cloud Foundry activities in trial

  246. My learning list for 2020

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

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

  249. CAP is important because it's not important

  250. Shell power and simplicity

  251. Submit suggestions for Tech Aloud during SAP TechEd 2019

  252. Tech Aloud podcast - an introduction

  253. New podcast - Tech Aloud

  254. Happy Programmers Day!

  255. Hitch Hiker's style in Sea of Sorrows

  256. Computed field example in CAP

  257. We can do better than 'polynimbus'

  258. The Observer's Book of JS Style

  259. David Edward Adams

  260. Double SAP CodeJam Athens - a report

  261. Revisiting UI5 on CodeTalk

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

  263. ES6, reduce and pipe

  264. Vim, Markdown and writing

  265. Housekeeping

  266. Monday morning thoughts: looking back and forwards

  267. Monday morning thoughts: digging deeper

  268. Monday morning thoughts: indirect influence

  269. Monday morning thoughts: learning media and mechanisms

  270. Monday morning thoughts: rethinking like the web

  271. Monday morning thoughts: longevity and loose coupling

  272. Monday morning thoughts: on starting blogging

  273. Monday morning thoughts: exploring reuse

  274. Monday morning thoughts: dynamic language

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

  276. Monday morning thoughts: big school and community

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

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

  279. Monday morning thoughts: impostor syndrome

  280. Monday morning thoughts: growth is upwards

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

  282. Monday morning thoughts: ABAP in the cloud

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

  284. Monday morning thoughts: considering GraphQL

  285. Monday morning thoughts: a good blog post

  286. Monday morning thoughts: OData

  287. Monday morning thoughts: the cloud is the computer

  288. Monday morning thoughts: mainframes and message documentation

  289. SAP CodeTalk sessions

  290. Monday morning thoughts: local http servers and containerisation

  291. Monday morning thoughts: what not how

  292. Monday morning thoughts: abstraction

  293. Monday morning thoughts: curiosity and understanding

  294. Monday morning thoughts: developers and advocacy

  295. Monday morning thoughts: programming models

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

  297. Monday morning thoughts: community engagement

  298. Monday morning thoughts: Core Data Services

  299. Monday morning thoughts: the learning continuum

  300. Monday morning thoughts: programmers and identity

  301. Collaboration tools

  302. The Business Rules service - overview and getting started

  303. Monday morning thoughts: milestones

  304. Monday morning thoughts: functions - what functions?

  305. Balancing features with simplicity

  306. Monday morning thoughts: containers and silence

  307. Monday morning thoughts: editors and editing

  308. Monday morning thoughts: debugging approach and Greasemonkey revival

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

  310. Monday morning thoughts: a cloud native smell

  311. Introduction to SAP Cloud Platform Workflow - Summary

  312. Monday morning thoughts: cloud native

  313. Becoming an SAP Mentor Alumnus

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

  315. Apps Script - Privacy Policy

  316. Coming Home

  317. Discovering SCP Workflow

  318. Consumption-based SCP Pricing - Initial Thoughts

  319. Things I do to make my work life better

  320. SCP Business Rules Roadmap - 5 Observations

  321. SAP Cloud Platform Pricing

  322. Fix Blink

  323. Functional programming - baby steps

  324. Meeting Request Details

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

  326. YABP - Yet Another Blogging Platform

  327. Best practices for mobile reporting

  328. The beauty of recursion and list machinery

  329. Reaching out to the new new kingmakers

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

  331. Excluding with vim's wildignore

  332. Better collaboration through chemistry

  333. F3C Parts 9 and 10 - Functors

  334. F3C Part 8 - Promises

  335. F3C Part 7 - Recursion

  336. F3C Part 6 - Currying

  337. F3C - A FunFunFunction Companion Series

  338. F3C Part 5 - Closures

  339. F3C Part 4 - Reduce advanced

  340. F3C Part 3 - Reduce basics

  341. F3C Part 2 - Map

  342. F3C Part 1 - Higher-order functions

  343. The Fiori revolution - disruption at its best

  344. Community and Collaboration at SAP Inside Track Manchester

  345. Understanding the SAP Fiori Cloud Edition

  346. Top 10 misconceptions about Fiori

  347. FOFP 2.1 A look at filter

  348. FOFP Fundamentals of functional programming

  349. FOFP 1.5 Creating functions

  350. FOFP 1.4 A different approach with map

  351. FOFP 1.3 Some basic list processing

  352. FOFP 1.2 Trying things out

  353. FOFP 1.1 Introduction

  354. Language minutiae and learning to SWIM

  355. Finding a wonderland number

  356. Enlightenment in action

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

  358. 4Clojure Puzzle 66

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

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

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

  362. Quick HCP title hack with the Navigation Manager

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

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

  365. The evolution of the SAP community

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

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

  368. Building blocks of language, structure and thought

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

  370. Digital devolution in local authorities - putting people first

  371. Impromptu JS session at UKISUG15

  372. Speaking at SAP TechEd EMEA 2015

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

  374. My journey to Clojure

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

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

  377. Cookies

  378. Building blocks for the future normal

  379. The origin of becoming a fundamental enabler for Fiori

  380. Revisiting the XML Model

  381. UI5 Version Info

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

  383. UI5 - looking back and forward

  384. The experimental Client operation mode

  385. An introduction to sap.ui.define

  386. Taming the Resource Model Files

  387. Merging lists with UI5

  388. Spreading the UI5 Message

  389. Fragments and Minimum Viable Code

  390. A Short UI5 Debugging Journey

  391. MVC - Model View Controller, Minimum Viable Code

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

  393. UI5 and Coding Standards

  394. The UI5 Support Tool - Help Yourself!

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

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

  397. Base Classes in UI5

  398. Handling Dates with the Date Picker

  399. Bootstrapping UI5 Locally and in the Cloud

  400. User Notifications with the Message Popover

  401. The App Descriptor

  402. OpenUI5 Walkthrough

  403. Creating Native Applications with UI5

  404. Semantic Pages

  405. Expression Binding

  406. Lightweight notifications with the Message Strip

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

  408. Welcome to 30 Days of UI5!

  409. Email Discipline

  410. JSON List Binding and maps

  411. openSAP Experiences

  412. This Week in Fiori (2015-16)

  413. This Week in Fiori (2015-15)

  414. This Week in Fiori (2015-14)

  415. This Week in Fiori (2015-13)

  416. This Week in Fiori (2015-12)

  417. Making Information More Useful

  418. The Maker's Schedule, Restraint and Flow

  419. This Week In Fiori (2015-11)

  420. Why I'm Staying Close to UI5

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

  422. 10 tips to get you started on your Fiori development journey

  423. UI5 features for building responsive apps

  424. Speaking at Mastering SAP Technologies

  425. Fiori & UI5 Related Videos

  426. Morning Fiori Fix

  427. OpenUI5 at FOSDEM 2015

  428. Atom, Snippets, Tabs and CSON parsing

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

  430. Running: 2014 in review, and some Clojure

  431. DNA is still in our DNA

  432. The inaugural SAP architect and developer summit

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

  434. Addressing Emails

  435. This Week in Fiori (2014-43)

  436. This Week in Fiori (2014-42)

  437. Speaking at the SAP Architect & Developer Summit

  438. This Week in Fiori (2014-40)

  439. This Week in Fiori (2014-39)

  440. This Week in Fiori (2014-38)

  441. Scratching an itch - UI5 Icon Finder

  442. This Week in Fiori (2014-36)

  443. This Week in Fiori (2014-35)

  444. This Week in Fiori (2014-34)

  445. This Week in Fiori (2014-33)

  446. This Week in Fiori (2014-32)

  447. This Week in Fiori (2014-31)

  448. This Week in Fiori (2014-30)

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

  450. OpenUI5 Tutorial at OSCON 2014

  451. This Week in Fiori (2014-29)

  452. This Week in Fiori (2014-28)

  453. Webinar and more - Understanding SAP Fiori

  454. This Week in Fiori (2014-27)

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

  456. SAP Developer Advisory Board - Your Input!

  457. SAP Mentor Monday on UI5 - Links

  458. Paying IT Forward Links

  459. OpenUI5 CodeTalk Links

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

  461. Reaching Out

  462. Mocking up the Payroll Control Center Fiori App

  463. The essentials - SAPUI5, OpenUI5 and Fiori

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

  465. M is for 'responsive'

  466. Alt-K: Reading Notes

  467. XML Views and Resource Bundle Declarations

  468. UI5 XML Views - Another Example

  469. Help Us To Help You - Share Your Code

  470. Meta education - or teaching the teachers

  471. Quick hack: Calendar Inviter

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

  473. Custom Sorting and Grouping

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

  475. CodeTalk - SAPUI5 and SAP Fiori

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

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

  478. Mobile Dev Course W3U3 Rewrite - App and Login

  479. Mobile Dev Course W3U3 Rewrite - Index and Structure

  480. Mobile Dev Course W3U3 Rewrite - Intro

  481. Building SAP Fiori-like UIs with SAPUI5

  482. SheetAsJSON - Google Spreadsheet Data as JSON

  483. An Amazing 36 Hours at SAP Labs Israel

  484. Engaging the Next Generation

  485. #YRS2013 Hacks on Github

  486. Happy Birthday SCN, Old Friend

  487. Simple SAPUI5 Chrome icon for lazy developers like me

  488. CodeClub Thoughts

  489. Review of Dark Reserve Nr 3 from Lovibonds

  490. Functional Python - Itertools Exploration

  491. Our computational future

  492. 30 Day Challenge: No Beer!

  493. Public Github repo sapui5bin available

  494. Jump to Shell Workset Item from URL

  495. 30 Days Challenges

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

  497. CodeClub and becoming a STEM Ambassador

  498. The Silent Club and Recharging Alone

  499. OData Everywhere

  500. Blog It Forward - DJ Adams

  501. Review of Norwegian Wood from Haandbryggeriet

  502. Recent Interests

  503. Serial interest in the Raspberry Pi

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

  505. Two tools for Gateway trial host nplhost

  506. On Enterprise Geeks Podcast

  507. Firebase and SAPUI5

  508. The Developer Connection: Connect Like Never Before

  509. SAPUI5 Powered SCN Forum Finder

  510. New Omniversity Course Video!

  511. Review of Red Rice Ale from Hitachino Nest

  512. SAPUI5 says "Hello OData" to NetWeaver Gateway

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

  514. SAP ICF course marketing: video!

  515. On the Information Diet

  516. The Developer Renaissance

  517. HTML5 @ SAP

  518. SAP Developer Center

  519. Movember - please donate!

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

  521. Moving on ... to Bluefin Solutions

  522. Review of Milk Stout from Left Handed Brewing Co

  523. Reading List Mark 2 - Part 5

  524. Reading List Mark 2 - Part 4

  525. Reading List Mark 2 - Part 3

  526. Reading List Mark 2 - Part 2

  527. Reading List Mark 2 - Part 1

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

  529. Ad-hoc Data Workflows with Google Apps Script

  530. Stand steady on the shoulders of giants

  531. Review of Torpedo from Sierra Nevada

  532. Beer review: Dark Star's Saison

  533. SOA scaffolding and development architects

  534. Review of Saison from Dark Star

  535. Danger! Graduate Conveyor-belt!

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

  537. Gmail Contextual Gadgets - talk at Manchester GTUG

  538. My browser A-Z

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

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

  541. Hacking the Delicious extension for Chrome

  542. Google Visualization API: Manchester GTUG Talk

  543. Not your father's SAP

  544. Getting started with Gmail Contextual Gadgets

  545. Scratching an itch - Magic The Gathering card info

  546. REpresentational State Transfer (REST) and SAP

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

  548. REST orientation - Controlling access to resources

  549. A new REST handler / dispatcher for the ICF

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

  551. SAP and Google Wave - Conversation Augmentation

  552. Book review - SAP Business ONE Implementation

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

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

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

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

  557. 2nd coffeeshop REST/HTTP screencast

  558. Google Wave, XMPP and complexity

  559. Webhooks postbin example for Coffeeshop

  560. First coffeeshop demo screencast

  561. 'Coffeeshop' - lightweight HTTP-based pubsub

  562. Information vs Behaviour

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

  564. Tarpipe REST connector in 5 minutes

  565. Twitter's success

  566. Analysing CV searches with Delicious

  567. SAP everywhere!

  568. An HTTP connector for Tarpipe: 'tarbridge'

  569. tarpipe.com - Programming 2.0?

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

  571. Back from Real Life

  572. OssNoteFix script updated for Greasemonkey 0.6.4 and Firefox 1.5

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

  574. SAP and Open Source: the debate continues

  575. Acorn Atom and my start in computing

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

  577. MoonOverFailsworth

  578. 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.

  579. 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.

  580. The SAP developer community 10 years ago

    On the early years of the SAP community online.

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

    Big iron and retrocomputing.

  582. SAP: temporary loss of touch with reality?

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

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

  584. 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.

  585. Europe, SAP, and two-way conferences

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

  586. 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?

  587. 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.

  588. SDN Meets Labs gets underway at SAP University

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

  589. Muscle cars

  590. An overcorrection too far?

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

  591. Postcode bookmarklet

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

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

    Cool URIs don't change ... much.

  593. Ralphm on sjabber

    Digging into sjabber's source.

  594. Honest application requirements

    An unusual "user story".

  595. 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.

  596. A fresh start

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

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

  598. Photos from SAP TechEd Munich

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

  599. 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.

  600. 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).

  601. 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).

  602. 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.

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

    I bought three books at Manchester airport yesterday.

  604. A little taste of SAP at EuroFoo

  605. 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.

  606. TechEd talk winners - congrats

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

  607. 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.

  608. 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 :-)

  609. NW4, OSS1 and logon group selection for OSS

    Digging into logon group selection.

  610. SAP at JAX 2004

    A brief report on JAX 2004.

  611. WAS 6.40 testdrive for Linux is here!

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

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

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

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

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

  614. FOSDEM, and small OSS Notes Browser Hack

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

  615. FOSDEM and Brussels, here I come!

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

  616. 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".

  617. Hello, 2004

    2004 is here. Neues Spiel, neues Glück.

  618. SAP TechEd - Collaborative notes

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

  619. 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.

  620. Plums and the antithesis of technology

    I haven’t been online much recently.

  621. Improving the OSS note experience

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

  622. SAP InfoTag on Web Application Server

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

  623. SAP talk at OSCON, and RSS

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

  624. Google Pocket Guide out now

    My new book for O'Reilly is out.

  625. Another great OSCON

    Reflecting on another Open Source Convention.

  626. Thanks, Randal

    Relaxing in an 80's arcade at OSCON.

  627. Dashboard, a compelling articulation for realtime contextual information

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

  628. SAP and Open Source BOF at OSCON

    Merging the enterprise and open source worlds over a beer.

  629. 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.

  630. 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).

  631. 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.

  632. SAP stuff at OSCON

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

  633. 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.

  634. Speaking at OSCON 2003

    Always an honour and a privilege.

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

    The fusion of Hogwarts and Molesworth.

  636. Weblogs and Wikis - Blurring the Boundaries

    More on the crossover between blogging and wikis.

  637. New Blosxom plugin 'submission'

    A generic blogging mechanism for accepting content POSTed to it.

  638. 'Conneg' and the duality of weblogs

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

  639. Tiki parser for MoinMoin

    Embedding the Tiki language into the MoinMoin wiki.

  640. Blosxom 2.0 Beta1

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

  641. RSS aggregators and user-agent information for Blagg

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

  642. Tinkering with RSS and NNTP

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

  643. Your wishlist in 'consumable' XML

    Introducing a new experimental Perl module.

  644. Asleep in 2002

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

  645. The fragility of retro-engineering

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

  646. Transferring my Amazon wishlist to AllConsuming.net

    Scripting to the rescue, as always.

  647. Presentations, Wikis, and Site Navigation

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

  648. Content-Type and Blosxom's RSS

    The perils of unescaped content in feeds.

  649. Wisdom, diplomacy, or serendipity?

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

  650. The universal canvas and RSS apps

    Thoughts on the applicability and utility of the format.

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

    Creating an experimental service based on existing mechanisms.

  652. Creating the "Entry index"

    More on building out how my blog looks.

  653. A new year and a new approach

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

  654. Startups and software patents

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

  655. 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.

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

    What can and should we do about spam?

  657. Ben's RSS book

    A new book on RSS from Ben Hammersley.

  658. RESTifying RT

    Some notes on providing a RESTful API for Request Tracker.

  659. 'Practical RDF' book up for public review

    Shelley Powers' new book.

  660. 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.

  661. 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.

  662. The case of the missing rdf:Description

  663. 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.

  664. XML Scripting, data manipulation, and RDF

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

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

    Using the mod_content module of RSS 1.0.

  666. From RSS 0.91 to 1.0

    Incantations to progress to RSS 1.0.

  667. The RDF in RSS

    Digging into the real truth about the RDF in RSS.

  668. Moving between Mozilla tabs with the keyboard

    An answer to my question on keyboard controllable Mozilal features.

  669. Mozilla "Bookmark This Group of Tabs"

    Improving the browsing experience one feature at a time.

  670. REST, Google, and idempotency

  671. Cacheing on XSLT service

    More on the Mozilla sidebar experiments.

  672. Sidebars, Mozilla, RSS: old and new

    RSS, RDF, XUL, XSLT and more.

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

    Looking back on this year's OSCON.

  674. The OS tables are turning...

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

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

    Some thoughts on The Culture.

  676. The mist is clearing ...

    On my continuing quest to grok REST.

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

    Protocols and formats making up the semantic web.

  678. The 80/20 of HTTP

    Musing on how HTTP is used in the main.

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

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

  680. Programming Jabber review

    A positive review of my O'Reilly book.

  681. Accessibility and Blosxom

    Extending my blogging engine for accessibility.

  682. A change and a rest

    Back recharged from holiday.

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

    Experimenting with Blosxom editing via a different medium.

  684. 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.

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

    An unofficial modification to Blagg.

  686. Changed link tags

    More work on RSS, metadata and discovery.

  687. HTML link tag for Blogroll

    Social network scripting and blog rolls.

  688. Collapse/Expand feature for my Blaggregated display

    Extending Blagg and related features.

  689. Extreme Computing 2002

    Going to the Festival of Inappropriate Technology.

  690. 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 :-).

  691. HTML LINK to RSS source

    Continuing the build-out of weblog based mechanisms.

  692. Top tip

    On falling down the stairs.

  693. ETag-enabled wget

    Adding ETag awareness to the venerable wget utility.

  694. More thoughts on HTTP, Email, and Jabber

    On HTTP headers and queueing architectures.

  695. "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.

  696. The Panopticon

    Extending the Panopticon experiment with XML messaging via Jabber.

  697. Jabberconf Blaggplug version 0+1b

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

  698. (Jabber-)Browsing the Panopticon data

    More on extending the Panopticon experiment.

  699. Amphetadesk Links

    More on feeds, subscriptions and aggregations.

  700. Subscription from Radio

    Maintaining feed metadata.

  701. Mr 80-Percent

  702. Blaggplug: jabberconf

    Aggregation and publish/subscribe.

  703. YARM: Yet Another Referers Mechanism

    Referers, backlinks, and the Unix command line.

  704. One small step ... one giant leap ...

    Calling remote functions over Jabber.

  705. Calendar code

    The calendar script for my sidebar.

  706. Bring on the SSI

    Server Side Includes and Blosxom.

  707. Blosxom vs the world

    The choice and decision to use specific blogging software.

  708. Blog software review

    More on blogging software.

  709. community(disagreement + debate) = inspiration

    The debate between SOAP and REST.

  710. "Blog Locally, Publish Globally"

    On the enduring pattern of local control but global reach.

  711. Other side of the coin: 5335 now resurrected

    RSS, Radio Userland, and redirectors.

  712. Original Peerkat-based weblog back up for reference

    More on Peerkat, a data syndication aggregator.

  713. Coffee Mugs and weblog interop

    Experimenting with Peerkat, feeds and Blosxom.

  714. Cross pollination and blossoming of scripts

    On the growing Blosxom ecosphere.

  715. My bookmarks

    Scripting with bookmarks.

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

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

  717. Interview on jabber.org

    A transcript of my interview on jabber.org.

  718. Hello Blosxom

    A move to the Blosxom blogging software.

  719. Bot window as command line of the future

    Musing on doing more from within the chatbot prompt.

  720. FOSDEM interview

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

  721. 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.