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Improve your CAP dev container shell prompt
In the current back to basics series on CAP Node.js we're using VS Code with a dev container, based on the definition in the repo for the series. The container image is based on this one: FROM...
A simple jq REPL with tmux, bash, vim and entr
In this quick post I show a simple JSON dataset explorer that gives me a multi-line filter editor. When it comes to exploring and processing JSON data, jq is my goto language. And for exploring, I...
Terminal Tip: a CF remote monitor script
In the previous terminal tip (remotely monitor a CF deployment) we saw the building blocks of how we might go about finding and then remotely monitoring an ongoing multi-target application...
Terminal Tip: remotely monitor a CF deployment
In today's HandsOnSAPDev live stream, Ep.65, we built the SAP Cloud Platform Workflow sample application MTA in the SAP Web IDE, and deployed it to our Cloud Foundry (CF) space from there too. We...
Terminal Tip: switching CF targets
Working with Cloud Foundry (CF) from the command line, I use the cf CLI a lot. As you perhaps may know already, due to the use of Multi Target Applications (multiapps, or MTAs) in the SAP Cloud...
Terminal Tip: parsing CF app logs
Further to my last Terminal Tip on truncating CF output I have another terminal tip for you that might help in the context of reading log output from Cloud Foundry (CF) apps. Application logging...
Terminal Tip: truncating CF output
I am a big fan of the terminal, and it's my preferred work environment for many reasons. I use the Cloud Foundry CLI cf frequently in my work on the SAP Cloud Platform but the output options are...
Coming Home
I first encountered SAP in 1987, where, fresh out of university and following an induction course for new graduates at Esso Petroleum in London, I started work in the Database Support Group, which...
Serial interest in the Raspberry Pi
Joseph and I took delivery of our Raspberry Pi earlier this year, and today attended the Manchester Raspberry Jam held at Madlab, a group of Raspberry Pi enthusiasts getting together to share...