> Part of being a grownup is doing whatever the hell you want

No, that's being a child. Being a grown up means not only thinking about yourself

My thoughts exactly. Unfortunately these days it's clear not everyone feels that way.

But is it use limited to side projects in your opinion?

No, it is solid for production and a lot of large Chinese companies like Alibaba, Baidu, Xiaomi, DJI use it.

I am not saying it needs to be young, Norwegian women, but who would you expect to see cleaning toilets?

There is definetely some truth to the article that the IPad does not really serve any very useful purpose. I have 3 IPads lying around at home, so I just made a "family calendar" web application for IPad and put it up on the wall. The app shows the weather forecast, today's events from the Google family calendar, a notice board, and also serves as light switch for Phillips Hue scenes.

As for books, "Clean code" by Robert Martin is an obvious choice. It covers the fundamentals of good, clean code.

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/clean-code-robert-c-martin/1...

A contractor would actually update their resume pretty frequently, to tailor it to a particular client.

I second that - I have been looking for something like this, but it would be extremenly conventient to be able to upload directly from LR.

Another request - I love the free flow, tiled display of images a la Flickr photostream - any chance that could be an option?

Otherwise, great job! - I was pleasently surprised at the quality of this applications.

There was nothing in your comment that made sense to me at all.

>> Oh my, that "Delphi mentality" in 2013..)

What's "Delphi mentality"?

>> ExtJS, if I remember correctly, is 5 or 6 years old already?

Why do you bring up ExtJS?

>> Is there any info which "startup" they have acquired or in what third-world country it was outsourced?

UI5 was developed in-house by SAP - not sure where it happened, but I think that particular bit of your comment reeks of arrogance and chauvinism

> Why do you bring up ExtJS?

Because it is an JS UI library of the very same kind which were around for years, isn't it?

Not sure about arrogance, but yes, I do hate SAP because I have seen it in production.)

Well, you could be forgiven for disliking SAP based on your experiences with their old UI - but UI5 is luckily their attempt to remedy the situation.

Not so long ago, SAP released a suite of applications under the brand "Fiori" - these apps are responsivea, have a uniform look and feel and are much more pleasing to the eye.

Here is an example from the Demokit: https://openui5.hana.ondemand.com/test-resources/sap/m/demok...

This looks really good, but doesn't seem to be part of the open sourced UI? If it is, i can't find it.

It is part of the library - you'll find the Fiori controls under the sap.m (for "mobile") namespace in the API section.

It's the "SplitApp" element that gives you the nice looking, responsive container (I was not able to find a good code sample right away).

Here is a direct link to documentation and examples of all the controls in the UI library

https://openui5.hana.ondemand.com/#content/Controls/index.ht...