Loading indicator in UI5 application

During one of our development project, we created a small UI5 application. Due to the need to get a lot of data from external services, the startup time was increasing, resulting in a long wait for users before anything rendered on the screen. Waiting for the application to launch in front of a white screen without any information was feeling as a application failure.

We decided to add some loading indicator that is removed at the rendering stage.

ADS "Serious error during message processing"

Another post on a PDF generation problem.
Sometime during PDF generation by the ADS (ie from a form created with SFP), the response returned by the ADS is an error stating "error during message processing". 

This post describe how to get the cause of the error.

Laser-engraved Dice box

 Just another quick post to show the latest addition to our DnD arsenal :)
A laser engraved  dice box.

Laser-engraved Dungeon Master Screen

Just a small post to showcase my first laser-engraved production.
This is a wooden dungeon master screen.

Dungeon Generation

As shown in other post, world-maps can be generated in a lot of interesting and creative ways. I decided to focus on generating a dungeon, as I found it both fun and challenging. In this set of post I'll try to show my experimentations on the subject.

World Map Generation - 2

 This note is a continuation of our series on world generation methods.

"SORT" is not stable !

Once in a while, you find something that challenge everything you thought you knew about a given subject. In may case I just found the the sort order using the default SORT ... BY X Y is not stable. That is, if you have several element with the same X and Y, they can be sorted in any order, and there is no guaranty that they will be sorted in the same way by consecutive sorts.

World Map Generation 1

It’s fairly commonly knowledge that generating a map can be done in a lot of different ways. This post is the first on a set that will speak of the ideas and algorithms we used to create the map for our toy program to display.

Global Jam Service Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée

Another year, another great Service Jam. For the second time this was done on the ground of  university "Paris-Est  Marne-la-Vallée". The theme was, once more, both very simple and quite brainstorming : 

Yes, No, Yes, No, Maybe, No, Yes

Changing the DataMatrix code size

Another (very) short article/news. This time about a problem when using Adobe LifeCycle in SAP (transaction sfp) : if you add a dataMatrix code to the page, the size of the code seems to be fixed. This article gives a very quick fix to this problem

oData date property cause an "invalid value" error

This small article is to describe a problem with some date property that arises during the creation of an oData entity : one date was generating an "invalid value" error (return code code 500). This was occurring after we filled the return structure, with the correct value.

New Mesh generation

After a long time being blocked by professionnal projects and constraints, I come back to my small self-learning game project. I made several modification to my project, mainly on the graphical side, following a brutal change of PC with no save...

Global Jam Service Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée

Since a few years, my wife partcipate into the "Global Jam Service", a Jam where you have to prototype a innovative service in 48h.  Last year I decided to also participate, seeing this as a way to learn new methodologies, while having fun. 

Corrupted PDF Generation in ABAP

PDF generation in ABAP is simple, and a lot of tutorials show how to develop an application that generate such a PDF and save it on the back-end or on the front-end. However, from times to times, the generated PDF is corrupted. This occured for several clients. This notes describes the problem, and provide a solution.

HR Renewal : No detail screen for leave request

In our current project, we have to implement a stand-alone HR Renewal project, with the leave request management as the main application. We had a problem with the validation of a request. While the manager could accept or reject a leave request, it could not see the detail of the request.

Map representation : meshes (2)

 In this post I will discuss the individual hex representation, and more precisely the way I developed to color and texture them.

BoardGame Model

In  this small post i will discuss the game's model. For my first iteration, I've decided  to model  the game's  model on  reality.   Thus, I've  got  a board-game instance that map physical game's objects to abstract / logical one.

New team in ESS / MSS calendar

Once more a small post on an easy modification of  the ESS / MSS  standard. This  one  works  for all versions of the ESS / MSS (WebDynpro Java, WebDynpro ABAP, UI5...) and allows the addition of specific teams / population to the ESS / MSS calendars in a standard way (i.e. no reparation).

Modification simple du logon "Page Builder"

Un de nos client a demandé des modifications de  l'écran standard  de login de ses  applications HR Renewal. Ces modifications  sont mineures (fond d'écran,  libellés...), mais la solution ayant pris  plus  de temps à être trouvée qu'à  être réalisée, je met en ligne  la méthode  employée.

Map representation : meshes

In this article I will discuss the representation of the hexagonal cells of my map.