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UI5 - looking back and forward
30 Days of UI5 — Day 26 by DJ Adams It was in the spring of 2012 when I wrote this piece about the new kid on the block, SAPUI5: SAPUI5 – The Future direction of SAP UI Development? The fledgling...
read postWeb Programming with SAP's ICF: new course dates
I’m pleased to announce that my 2-day Omniversity course Web Programming with SAP’s Internet Communication Framework is coming up again a couple of times in the first half of next year. SAP’s Internet...
read postStand steady on the shoulders of giants
Or: Why you should attend my 2-day Omniversity course “Web Programming with the SAP Internet Communication Framework“ Last week I had the opportunity to attend an SAP Mentor Webinar on SAP Netweaver...
read postScratching an itch - Magic The Gathering card info
Well over 10 years ago I bought a box set of Magic The Gathering (MTG) cards. I wasn’t really sure what they were, but they looked fascinating. Unfortunately, they gathered dust after a while, mostly...
read postSAP and Google Wave - Conversation Augmentation
It's been pretty much six years to the day since I last wrote here about Dashboard, Nat Friedman's project and implementation of a realtime contextual information system. So I thought it fitting to...
read postCommand lines of the future, and simplicity of integration
This is a bit of a hand-wavy post, but I wanted to get my thoughts down. Recently there’s been a spate of interest around interaction with devices, applications and systems ... via a chat-style...
read postCoffeeshop screencast: HTTP conneg, resource representations and JSON
After yesterday’s screencast showing the use of coffeeshop from the command line, here’s one that expands upon the direction I’m taking the implementation, following the REST/HTTP philosophy. It...
read post2nd coffeeshop REST/HTTP screencast
To follow on from the first coffeeshop demo screencast, I thought I’d make another. This time it’s to highlight the fact that coffeeshop is fundamentally a REST-orientated, HTTP-based pubsub...
read postGoogle Wave, XMPP and complexity
Anil Dash provides food for thought in his post “What Works: The Web Way vs The Wave Way“. While I agree with him on the importance of the incremental approach to technology progression on the web...
read postWebhooks postbin example for Coffeeshop
There’s an interesting article “HTTP PubSub: Webhooks and PubSubHubBub” that covers working with webhooks and points to a great HTTP / webhook developer utility “PostBin“, which: “lets you debug web...
read postFirst coffeeshop demo screencast
To demonstrate some of the basic coffeeshop features, I put together a screencast, and after getting over the shock of hearing my own voice in the recorded voiceover (last time I chickened out and...
read post'Coffeeshop' - lightweight HTTP-based pubsub
‘Coffeeshop‘ is a lightweight, REST-orientated HTTP-based publish/subscribe implementation that I’ve been working on for the last few days. It is a culmination of: an early and long-standing interest...
read postTarpipe REST connector in 5 minutes
Tarpipe implemented a REST connector a short while ago. This is something that I and others have been wanting for a while now, so it’s great news. The announcement was quite short and didn’t have much...
read postTwitter's success
Yes yes, I know I’m late to the game, and everyone and his dog has given their angle on why Twitter is so successful, but I’d like to weigh in with a few thoughts too. The thoughts are those that came...
read postAn HTTP connector for Tarpipe: 'tarbridge'
One thing that Tarpipe would really benefit from is a connector that would enable an HTTP request (I’m thinking of POST, here) to be made on an arbitrary resource (URL). This is something that other...
read post'Conneg' and the duality of weblogs.
Q: When is a blog not a blog? A: When it’s an RSS feed. I’ve pondered the relationship between weblog and RSS before, and in an Old Speckled Hen-induced philosophical state of mind, have decided for...
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