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 because there wasn’t anyone else to play against, and I didn’t understand the rules properly anyway. Fast forward to 2009. [...]
Cloud computing, virtual machines. It’s big business. Amazon has its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) which provides “resizable compute capacity in the cloud“, Microsoft has Azure, providing “on-demand compute and storage to host, scale, and manage Web applications on the Internet” and Google’s offering is App Engine which offers “the ability to build and host web [...]
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 make a short demo showing integration between Google Wave and SAP, inspired by the cluepacket-driven style shown so nicely with Dashboard.
I got [...]
A short while ago I was sent a review copy of “SAP Business ONE Implementation”, by Wolfgang Niefert, published by Packt Publishing. On receipt, I skimmed through it, and my first impressions were very favourable. I’m now reading through it a second time as I sit with a cup of tea and a slice of [...]
Recently it has come to people’s attention that there is a website www.sap-abap4.com out there with a lot of very interesting content … which seems to have been completely “lifted” from the SAP Developer Network (SDN) and reproduced verbatim, except that in each case the original author name has been removed!
Lots of discussion is taking [...]
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 interface. This is nothing new, of course. Bots have existed on the IRC networks for a long time. The venerable Purl, [...]
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 shows, I hope, that embracing REST-orientated HTTP features, such as content negotiation (”conneg”), and the concepts of resources and representations, gives you a fantastically flexible and straightforward [...]
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 application at the core, and not just a web-based application. Hopefully this comes across through the use of command-line HTTP tools to manipulate Channel, Subscriber and [...]
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 (”The Web Way”), I do profess to have an intense interest in the pollination of XMPP into the HTTP [...]
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 lets you debug web hooks by capturing and logging the asynchronous requests made when events happen. Make a PostBin and register the URL with a web [...]