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Movember – please donate!
I’m taking part in Movember, a fun and serious movement where moustaches are grown, ridicule is thrown, and hopefully people become more aware of men’s health in general, and prostate and testicular...
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SAP Developer Center
At SAP TechEd Madrid 2011 I stopped by booth 104 in the Technology Innovation area of Hall 10 after lunch and chatted to David Brutman, from SAP’s Technology and Innovation Platform Marketing. SAP...
View ArticleHTML5 @ SAP
Over the years SAP has been slowly but surely turning itself inside out towards the wider, open community. Open as in open source, open protocols and open data. One facet of this long-term tanker...
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The Developer Renaissance
At SAP TechEd in Madrid this year, I had the privilege of interviewing SAP’s Head of Technology & Innovation Platform (TIP) Marketing, Aiaz Kazi, on the SAP TechEd Live TV channel. The interview...
View ArticleOn the Information Diet
There seems to be a movement currently gaining momentum from the flurry of New Year resolutions, a movement on information consumption. Last week, I read about a noble and desirable goal to consume...
View ArticleSAP ICF course marketing: video!
I dropped by Madlab and the Omniversity yesterday evening to see Hwayoung and Dave and talk about the upcoming Web Programming with the SAP Internet Communication Framework course in early March. (Sign...
View ArticleNew Omniversity Course Video!
As I mentioned earlier this year, we were going to create a new video for my course “Web Programming with SAP’s Internet Communication Framework” at the Omniversity of Manchester at Madlab. And we did!...
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SAPUI5 Powered SCN Forum Finder
With the advent of the new SAP Community Network platform, people have been wondering where the old SDN forums have gone. To this end, there’s a very useful “Forum Finder for the New SCN” which details...
View ArticleThe Developer Connection: Connect Like Never Before
At SAP TechEd Madrid (November last year) I wrote about the Developer Renaissance, covering my interview with Aiaz Kazi from the Technology & Innovation Platform, and SAP’s re-focus on developers....
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Firebase and SAPUI5
I took a look at Firebase this weekend, approaching it within the context of the relatively new concept of “backend as a service” (BaaS) as exemplified by Parse and others. Add server-side storage to...
View ArticleOn Enterprise Geeks Podcast
Last month at SAP DKOM, where I rediscovered SAP’s Developer Connection, I bumped into an old friend, Craig Cmehil. Craig is one part of the Enterprise Geeks, a loose collective of geeks and hackers...
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Two tools for Gateway trial host nplhost
The SAP NetWeaver Gateway trial system is a great way to get your hands on all that OData and HTTP goodness. There are a couple of tools that I find myself re-installing when I build a new copy of the...
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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...
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Recent Interests
I fed the latest posts from this weblog to Wordle and this is what it came up with as a representation of my recent interests.
View ArticleThe Silent Club and Recharging Alone
A month back, Emma Mulqueeny wrote about her Silent Club. It’s not really a club – there is no explicit membership to speak of, there are no meetings, there isn’t even a website (although there is a...
View ArticleCodeClub and becoming a STEM Ambassador
CodeClub is a nationwide network of volunteer-led after-school coding clubs, and its mission is to give every child in the UK the chance to learn to code. When CodeClub started earlier this year, I...
View Article30 Days Challenges
Inspired by Matt Cutts and his 30 Days Challenges, I’ve decided to have a go myself, instead of setting any specific (and year-long-lasting, doomed-to-failure) New Year Resolutions. The challenges I...
View Article30 Day Challenge: No Beer!
Well goodness me it’s already February. January went by very fast indeed, and it turns out I managed my January challenge (no Twitter) very well. I uninstalled my Twitter clients (Tweetdeck for Chrome...
View ArticleFunctional Python – Itertools Exploration
Well, time passes, and my 30days challenges are continuing. January: no Twitter, February: no beer, and the month just passed, March: Meditation. I didn’t do too well on the meditation front, but that...
View ArticleCodeClub Thoughts
I’ve been a CodeClub leader for a while now at my local primary school, Woodhouses Voluntary Controlled Primary School, in Manchester. The club is after school on Friday afternoons and each session...
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