At tonight’s Manchester Google Technology User Group’s meetup at Madlab, I gave a talk on building ad-hoc data workflows with Google Apps Script. The Google Apps application set, combined with the universally accessible and always-on nature of Google Apps Script, with its access to a ridiculously large set of useful APIs (in the form of [...]
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 Gateway, entitled “Gateway Consumption”. Gateway is something I have a good deal of interest in, and have written about it in the past. [...]
I was honoured to be asked by the folks at Port Street Beer House to review one of their cask beers, Saison, from the West Sussex brewery Dark Star. I went down last Saturday, received a pint, sat down, and wrote this: http://portstreetbeerhouse.co.uk/blog/2011/05/31/review-dark-star-saison-by-dj-adams A thoroughly enjoyable time! And of course, I checked it in; fitting, as [...]
In “Quo vadis SOA“, Matthias Steiner has written a very readable blog post about where SOA is today, in SAP and beyond, casting a critical but balanced eye on what the service orientation approach has delivered. In the section “Did SOA deliver on its promise?”, the words (some quoted) that stand out are “critics”, “disillusionment”, [...]
John Appleby wrote a thought-provoking piece on university degree courses and how they relate to the IT industry in “When will graduates learn to monetize their education?“. I thought it was worth writing a few thoughts down to help re-balance the view. To a large extent I agree with John’s sentiments, especially on the context [...]
The Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab for short) is the arts-craft-tech gravity centre of Manchester, and our gracious hosts for the Manchester Google Technology User Group. Recently a new group sprung up there – the jQuery Manchester Meetup, run by Jon Vines. I gave a talk there earlier this month, on JSON, JSONP and AJAX. Here [...]
I gave a talk at the Manchester Google Technology User Group March meetup on Gmail Contextual Gadgets. Partly so I can keep track of what slides I’ve used where, and partly to share them with a wider audience, here they are.
Inspired by a post “Letter Sweep” by Tim Bray, here’s my browser A-Z, a list of the URLs that appear when the browser tries to guess, on a single letter press, where I want to go, based on past locations. A: appengine.google.com – unsurprising, as I’m a big fan of Google’s App Engine. B: bbc.co.uk [...]
I was honoured to be invited to write the first guest blog post on Bluefin‘s website. To start the ball rolling, I decided to take a whirlwind history tour of data and function integration with SAP’s enterprise systems, ending up a few clicks into the future with SAP’s Project Gateway, which promises to bring a [...]
I’ve recently moved from Firefox to Chrome. I use Delicious for managing my public and private bookmarks, and have installed the plugins for both browsers. In moving to Chrome and installing the Delicious Tools extension, one thing I really missed from the Firefox-based add-on was the ability to set a simple configuration option to set [...]