Blog posts tagged "web"

04 Jul 2026 Blogging in en-GB
I've changed the language declaration on my website to en-GB. Here's why.
09 Jul 2024 Enabling document fragment links for headings in SAP Community blog posts
Creating a bookmarklet to enable document fragment links for headings in SAP Community blog posts.
20 Dec 2023 From Twitter to Mastodon
Moving off Twitter at the end of 2023 and explaining the reasons for the switch to Mastodon.
19 Nov 2018 Monday morning thoughts: rethinking like the web
I revisit some principles that help us "think like the web" and think about them in the context of today's SAP technology landscape and community.
06 Sep 2018 My take on Wired's Google & URLs article
Sharing my discomfort with Google's rethinking of URLs as reported by Wired.
01 Feb 2018 Apps Script - Privacy Policy
This is the Privacy Policy for the Apps Scripts made available for use.
28 Sep 2015 Give me a browser, and I'll give you the world
Exploring how a web-only developer workflow is possible right now using cloud-based tools.
15 Apr 2012 Firebase and SAPUI5
Exploring Firebase as a backend-as-a-service in the context of SAPUI5 and realtime data.
09 Nov 2011 HTML5 @ SAP
Attending the HTML5 at SAP session at TechEd and seeing SAP's embrace of open standards.
28 Mar 2011 JSON and Other Animals - talk at Manchester jQuery Meetup
Presenting on JSON, AJAX and JSONP at the Manchester jQuery Meetup at MadLab.
04 Mar 2011 My browser A-Z
Listing my browser A-Z, the URLs that appear on a single letter press based on past browsing.
09 Nov 2010 Hacking the Delicious extension for Chrome
Hacking the Delicious bookmarking extension for Chrome to fix some annoyances after switching from Firefox.
08 Sep 2009 SAP and Google Wave - Conversation Augmentation
Demonstrating integration between Google Wave and SAP, inspired by the Dashboard project from six years earlier.
29 Aug 2009 One way of dealing with blogtheft from SDN - through images
Using image-based techniques to deal with content being stolen from SDN.
28 Aug 2009 Dealing with "#blogtheft" from SAP's Developer Network
Addressing the blogtheft problem where content was being lifted wholesale from SAP's Developer Network.
09 Aug 2009 Google Wave, XMPP and complexity
Considering the complexity of Google Wave and XMPP versus the incremental approach of the web.
08 May 2009 Analysing CV searches with Delicious
Analysing search terms used to find my online CV using Perl and Delicious.
21 Apr 2009 tarpipe.com - Programming 2.0?
Exploring whether tarpipe.com represents an early example of a Programming 2.0 concept.
15 Apr 2009 Old feed URLs fixed with a bit of mod_rewrite voodoo
Fixing old feed URLs with some Apache mod_rewrite rules to redirect feed bots to the right place.
20 Apr 2005 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?
28 Feb 2005 An overcorrection too far?
Norman Walsh gives up ‘wrestling his way through the arcana of WSDL’.
26 Feb 2005 Postcode bookmarklet
We’ve been spending time recently looking at property in the North West.
25 Feb 2005 Weblog happy in new home - note new URLs!
Cool URIs don't change ... much.
17 Oct 2003 BSP: Mangled URL Decoder
A quick dive into the details of BSP URLs.
06 Mar 2003 Weblogs and Wikis - Blurring the Boundaries
More on the crossover between blogging and wikis.
28 Feb 2003 'Conneg' and the duality of weblogs
Philosophy triggered by the lowly but essential connection negotiation aspect of HTTP.
22 Feb 2003 Tiki parser for MoinMoin
Embedding the Tiki language into the MoinMoin wiki.
29 Jan 2003 Tinkering with RSS and NNTP
The beauty of open standards is that they can be adopted, remixed and combined.
27 Jan 2003 Your wishlist in 'consumable' XML
Introducing a new experimental Perl module.
26 Jan 2003 The fragility of retro-engineering
Having to modify my allconsuming scripts because of differences between amazon.co.uk and amazon.com data.
25 Jan 2003 Transferring my Amazon wishlist to AllConsuming.net
Scripting to the rescue, as always.
22 Jan 2003 Presentations, Wikis, and Site Navigation
Why build something when there's already a standard to embrace?
22 Jan 2003 Content-Type and Blosxom's RSS
The perils of unescaped content in feeds.
21 Jan 2003 Wisdom, diplomacy, or serendipity?
On the architectural style(s) of allcosuming.net's API.
21 Jan 2003 The universal canvas and RSS apps
Thoughts on the applicability and utility of the format.
20 Jan 2003 The disruptive engineering spectrum, and "booktalk", an AllConsuming app
Creating an experimental service based on existing mechanisms.
15 Dec 2002 "Assaults on the Internet's end-to-end-architecture"
What can and should we do about spam?
12 Sep 2002 From RSS 0.91 to 1.0
Incantations to progress to RSS 1.0.
04 Sep 2002 Moving between Mozilla tabs with the keyboard
An answer to my question on keyboard controllable Mozilal features.
03 Sep 2002 Mozilla "Bookmark This Group of Tabs"
Improving the browsing experience one feature at a time.
31 Aug 2002 Cacheing on XSLT service
More on the Mozilla sidebar experiments.
29 Aug 2002 Sidebars, Mozilla, RSS: old and new
RSS, RDF, XUL, XSLT and more.
15 Jul 2002 The mist is clearing ...
On my continuing quest to grok REST.
08 Jul 2002 The 80/20 of HTTP
Musing on how HTTP is used in the main.
03 Jul 2002 Reflecting weblogs.com 'ping's with SOAP, Jabber, and Pubsub
More on building out the weblog-o-sphere infrastructure.
21 Jun 2002 Accessibility and Blosxom
Extending my blogging engine for accessibility.
04 Jun 2002 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.
03 Jun 2002 Changed link tags
More work on RSS, metadata and discovery.
02 Jun 2002 HTML link tag for Blogroll
Social network scripting and blog rolls.
31 May 2002 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 :-).
31 May 2002 HTML LINK to RSS source
Continuing the build-out of weblog based mechanisms.
24 May 2002 Top tip
On falling down the stairs.
24 May 2002 ETag-enabled wget
Adding ETag awareness to the venerable wget utility.
20 May 2002 "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.
15 May 2002 The Panopticon
Extending the Panopticon experiment with XML messaging via Jabber.
15 May 2002 (Jabber-)Browsing the Panopticon data
More on extending the Panopticon experiment.
10 May 2002 Subscription from Radio
Maintaining feed metadata.
09 May 2002 Mr 80-Percent
Reflecting on the 80-percent approach to work and why working fewer hours can mean getting more done.
08 May 2002 YARM: Yet Another Referers Mechanism
Referers, backlinks, and the Unix command line.
06 May 2002 Bring on the SSI
Server Side Includes and Blosxom.
06 May 2002 Blog software review
More on blogging software.
01 May 2002 community(disagreement + debate) = inspiration
The debate between SOAP and REST.
30 Apr 2002 "Blog Locally, Publish Globally"
On the enduring pattern of local control but global reach.
27 Apr 2002 Other side of the coin: 5335 now resurrected
RSS, Radio Userland, and redirectors.
26 Apr 2002 Original Peerkat-based weblog back up for reference
More on Peerkat, a data syndication aggregator.
26 Apr 2002 Coffee Mugs and weblog interop
Experimenting with Peerkat, feeds and Blosxom.
24 Apr 2002 My bookmarks
Scripting with bookmarks.

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