This week is Diabetes Week . This is my #dblogweek story. I was diagnosed with Diabetes in February 2009. It has turned out to be a hugely positive experience for me. I lost weight (is that really me in the "before" photo below?), I re-discovered...

Howard has written an excellent post on how to use the descriptions of table columns in the output from Read SAP Table. Read more: ishare.intellicorp.com/.../reading-an-sap-table-using-column-descriptions-as-headings.aspx

This update to the LiveCompare and HP ALM/Quality Center integration bits supports: Requirements Versioning Requirements Based on customer feedback there is a new integration WGI called: QCRequirementsAssistant . This WGI turns an arbitrary LiveCompare...

An email from HP says that Patch 13 is available for ALM/Quality Center. After installing the patch you may see: While running Discover Test Assets -- Error Msg: OTA version is not compatible with the Application Lifecycle Management server: http://qavmhpqc...

This year we're hosting two young people from local schools for work experience. I'm particularly pleased that both students want to do "programming". Howard and I put our heads together and came up with this list of puzzle-focused projects...

On-demand printed copies of the Inside LiveCompare guide are now available on amazon: amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/Inside-LiveCompare-3-0-IntelliCorp/dp/1482655160/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1362389258&sr=1-1 amazon.co.uk http://www...

LiveCompare 3.0 is officially generally available from today. Customers will get their upgrade notices starting next week. All evaluations and new product orders are fulfilled with LiveCompare 3.0. LiveCompare 3.0 is very much a customer service release...

LiveCompare 3.0 is getting ready to ship. As part of the release, Howard has revised his "Inside LiveCompare" guide. Download the PDF from: ishare.intellicorp.com/.../1699.aspx Once Amazon have accepted our upload I'll add the on-demand...

Ever wanted to conditionally execute a workflow? Here's how: ishare.intellicorp.com/.../conditional-workflow-execution.aspx

An email from HP says that patch 12 is now available for HP ALM/Quality Center. After installing the patch on our server the About dialog reports: Running my 'Discover Test Assets' workflow fails with: While running Discover Test Assets -- Error...

An email from HP says that patch 10 is available for HP ALM/Quality Center 11. After installing the patch on our server the About dialog shows: Running my 'Discover Test Assets' sample workflow failed with this error: While running Discover Test...

The LiveCompare and Rational Quality Manager (RQM) Integration November 2012 update is now available. I've tested this build with the 4.01 release of RQM available on jazz.net . The RQMTestDesignAssistant WGI throws a clearer error when the supplied...

Last time I wrote about how to use the new default entity field values feature of the LiveCompare HP ALM/Quality Center integration. In this post I'll cover the second new feature in the November update: updating test status. This feature was based...

This month's update to the LiveCompare-HP ALM/Quality Center integration adds support for default entity field values, or perhaps more simply: required fields. Here's an example from our HPQC system: As you can see I've defined three custom...

LiveModel 2.3 saw the introduction of a generalized LiveCapture module. The purpose was to permit the loading and analysis of any live SAP data in the context of a business process model. Check out the latest Specials blog post that provides details of...

Read the latest Specials blog post to see how LiveCompare syncs non-SAP data. Intersting personal twist. Link: ishare.intellicorp.com/.../comparing-itunes-content.aspx

The jazz.net sandbox I use to develop the LiveCompare/Rational Quality Manger (RQM) integration was updated recently to version 4.0.1. This update broke the RQMTestDesignAssistant WGI because of this bug: https://jazz.net/jazz02/web/projects/Rational...

Howard has just let me know that his excellent "Inside LiveCompare 2.6" guide is now available as an iBook. Point your browser at: itunes.apple.com/.../id561914392 Better yet: download it now to your iPad. The PDF version is available here on...

Last time I covered the new LiveCompare 2.6 functionality that helps developers stay on top of custom ABAP code complexity, performance and security. The goal is to reduce total cost of ownership by fixing defects in development and not waste precious...

IntelliCorp runs a free SAP benchmarking service called SOLO ( http://solo.intellicorp.com/ ) through which we've captured the SAP usage statistics from a great many SAP systems. The data tells me some interesting things. For example: the average...

LiveCompare 2.6 has been refreshed with bug fixes and new features. The full details are here: http://ishare.intellicorp.com/cs/support/b/support/archive/2012/09/24/livecompare-2-6-build-384-ga-refresh.aspx This update is recommended for all LiveCompare...

I was asked after the "Better Quality for Less Effort" webinar: how do LiveCompare and LiveModel really integrate with HP? Here's the answer: youtu.be/s8dWOuPSKLg The URL above is a YouTube shortened URL. The full URL is: http://www.youtube...

Here's a re-recording of this past week's IntelliCorp webinar titled "Better Quality for Less Effort". youtu.be/Ex5UW33YzGA Here's the long-format URL equivalent to the shortened one above: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex5UW33YzGA&hd...

I've been lucky enough to get my hands on a Raspberry Pi . The RasPi is an ARM GNU/Linux computer for just 25 USD. The machine is powerful enough to run Quake 3 offering the computational power of a 300MHz Pentium 2 coupled with a sweet GPU. The foundation...

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away LiveModel supported the import of Resite training documents. Users often found that their training material provided a good source of SAP transation test assets. By importing the content into LiveModel, capturing...