Today’s blog post is an extended transcript of my presentation The Cloud Platform Play presented at JAX 2013 which deals with with three major topics:

1. developers (as the primary users of PaaS),
2. cloud platforms (as a means to make software development more agile and cost efficient),
3. getting started (as a call to action to get familiar with PaaS).

One of my buddies and fellow SAP Mentors Ethan Jewett wrote a thought provoking piece about a topic currently seeing a lot of hype (especially in the SAP community): gamification. For a change – I mostly agree with Ethan that points, badges or achievements are not the silver bullet to keep people engaged or motivated. At least not in the long run!

 “Honey, I shrunk the community!”- James Governor

Even though Day 2 of Monki Gras saw an easy start at 10:30 the number of people who had made it on time was noticeable smaller than the day before. Those missing sure missed out on a great breakfast as well as the great opening act…

“Why would you want to attend a conference run by an analyst firm?” - James Governor

Those who have been following my recent whereabouts know that I’ve been looking into turning a SAP UI5 mockup project created with the upcoming AppDesigner into a working application by connecting it to the SAP Mobile Platform – Cloud Edition (for more details please refer to Jens Koerner ‘s recent blog.)