Note: the Customer Influence website is currently down. The HANA Logon App for e.g. Admin, IDE, Repo is still accessible: https://influence.sap.com/sap/hana/xs/formLogin/login.html Recently I looked at the SAP Customer Influence website. Besides an interesting OData service I came across several other points I think are worth to mention. At the time Read more…
— Note: the customer influence website is currently offline, the links in the post won’t work — The SAP Customer Influence site exposes information about its users that goes beyond what the web site offers: a list of SAP customers, linked employees and their user ID and email address. That’s Read more…
Mounting a remote directory is a very common use case. A file server provides a central place to store documents, and users can use these like a normal local folder on their laptop. Sometimes the file server is only available via SSH access. In that case, you cannot mount a Read more…
When sending a HTTP request to Apache it might happen that the response is HTTP 400. <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \”-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN\”>\n<html><head>\n<title>400 Bad Request</title>\n</head><body>\n<h1>Bad Request</h1>\n<p>Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.<br />\nSize of a request header field exceeds server limit.</p>\n</body></html>\n” The error message is: Size of Read more…
Recently my ABAP Developer Tools in Eclipse (ADT) stopped working. Well, not ADT failed to start. Eclipse failed to start. All I got was an error message when I tried to start Eclipse: “The Eclipse executable launcher was unable to locate is companion shared library”. Root Cause Judging from the Read more…
SAP’s Business Application Studio is based on Theia. Several plugins for Fiori development are released by SAP to the VS Code marketplace. This means that it is possible to use these in Eclipse Theia. As written previously, this is only technically possible, as the VS Code marketplace TOU does not Read more…
After installing Eclipse Theia Blueprint or building your own Theia application, what you have is a modern IDE, ready to be used to develop a wide range of applications. It won’t be fun, as the included list of plugins is empty. You’d need to do a lot of manual work Read more…
Eclipse Theia is a modern cloud and desktop IDE platform. It allows you to build your own IDE application. What Theia offers is not a ready-to-run IDE, but a platform to build an IDE for desktop or cloud that can be adopted to match your personal or company requirements. In Read more…
Visual Studio Code from Microsoft is currently one of the most used IDEs by developers. It is fast, available for all platforms and can be used for almost all programming languages (hello ADT). It can be extended easily via plugins. Microsoft offers a central place to install plugins from: a Read more…
Hello 2022, RIP 2021. I’ll use the new year to look back at 2021 and what it meant for my private website and blog. In 2021 I managed to publish 61 blog posts. From September to December, I only published 1 post per month. I partly attribute this to me Read more…