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, [...]
‘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 in pubsub
a fascination with using HTTP properly, i.e. as an application protocol, not a transport protocol
an excuse to experiment in the area of webhooks
a desire to learn more [...]
I remember back in the ’90s joking with my friend Piers
When I see the first book on SAP hit the bookstores, it’s time to move on
In those days there were no books on SAP, and I was still in shock from receiving SAP documentation properly printed and bound — in the early days [...]
I wrote a blog entry on SDN almost two weeks ago entitled “SAP and Open Source: an analysis and letter to SAP and Shai“. It followed the flurry of comment that was made after Shai made some alarming statements regarding SAP and Open Source at the Churchill Club. My angle was that Shai was [...]
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about where SAP is going and what SAP is doing today, especially in the light of where it went and what it did in the past. To be honest, the thinking has been triggered by frustration at the nuts and bolts of SAP technical matters, particularly in the area [...]
Using OSS notes on SAP’s service portal is extremely cumbersome. I used Greasemonkey to hack the UI to make it a little better. I had written it up on my SDN blog:
Hacking the SAP service portal to make OSS notes better
but forgot to mention it here. Piers had just complained to me that he couldn’t [...]