A Look Back At CodeConnect 2025
It’s been almost 2 weeks now since I participated in the 2025 CodeConnect event, which was actually my first in-person CodeConnect ever.
I would’ve participated in person sooner, but getting tickets is akin to trying to get the most popular item on Black Friday, it requires speed, precision and luck!
But enough rambling about the tickets! Let’s take a look back at my journey to CodeConnect 2025.
UI5Con 2025
I’m going to skip the very first day of CodeConnect, mainly due to it being spent in a car for 16 hours, as me and my colleagues made the journey from the northern part of Jutland to St. Leon Rot.
So for us, the conference didn’t start until day 2 with UI5Con, and that was some start.
Upon arrival at the building, it was straight into networking and trying to decide what sessions were most interesting to participate in.
We ended up doing a divide and conquer strategy in our group to get the most out of the day, with of course a focus on getting to the hands-on sessions.
My day quickly became side-tracked as I caught up with both old and new faces in my effort to connect with all the other developers present at the event.
Which, to be honest, for a mostly backend/cloud guy like me wasn’t all bad. While I do enjoy a tango with the frontend from time to time, my heart belongs to what goes on behind the scenes.
But I did catch a lot of good talks still; so here are my take-aways from the first real day at CodeConnect:
Ownership of styling is slowly being handed back to the developer, meaning we can now make proper custom components for UI5 that style correctly with the themes such as Horizon.Still no clear release date for UI5 v2, but we do have a legacy free 1.136 out there now that we can utilize and prepare withPromise for UI5 developers that keep in line with the UI5 Linter, that their code will be lift and shift (i.e. go use the linter asap!)The UI5 repository has completed its moving phase and is now living in its own repositoryAccessibility, much like everywhere else in the developer space at the moment, is the talk of the town, and SAP is doing a lot of improvements on this front2 test runners were presented as the replacements for the deprecated Karma runner. I know that I am leaning the most towards the WDI5 route due to it working as a more complete suite.Webcomponents are the main focus going forward, and even though there is no timestamp on it, it seems like it will replace many of our current components going forward
That was pretty much my experience and take-aways for the first day there, and with it we wrapped up the UI5Con with some great food before heading back to the hotel.
The next for me, I knew would be something special.
reCAP 2025
Second day for me at CodeConnect started out with a great opening key note by Daniel Hutzel. Although he ran out of time by the end, I wish we could’ve listened to him for just a little while longer.
The key take-away of this keynote however, was extremely clear. Over the last year, the focus by the CAP team has really been on minimizing the footprint of the CAP/CDS install while optimizing and improving the feature set of the framework.
And from what we were presented, that definitely looked like it came out as a success. As a developer that uses CAP on a daily basis, both for plugin development and end-user projects, I can definitely say that I have enjoyed the improvements so far.
So a kudos to the CAP team is definitely in order on this! (Now we just need it to be open source!)
Unfortunately, I did not have as much time to participate in the many sessions of this day, as much like the day before, the event became more of a networking experience.
The sessions I did catch however, were absolutely great and definitely something that you should catch up on if you have the chance;
Both sessions by Mike Zaschka (just always a good listen and everybody loves open source!)CAP Tools session by Christian Georgi (because you cannot be a good developer without knowing your tools)Server-side Pre-rendering by Volker Buzek and Wouter Lemaire (a great session with insights into another great open source initiative)CAP Best vs Bad Practices by Daniel HutzelGain a superpower by learning how to harness the CDS REPL by DJ Adams (seriously, learn REPL)
While these were the only sessions I managed to catch, I did however experience something extremely important during the reCAP event, and that was the community.
I got to connect with so many great people and talk about the passion of this side of the industry, and the love we all share for opens source technologies.
I even got the chance to appear on the SAP Developer News to share my own open source contribution (MCP Plugin for CAP).
And that is something I wouldn’t trade for anything.
You Should Attend
I hope it is clear from my post here that going to CodeConnect is an experience, no matter how you plan it. It is an event filled with great people and some great discussions around the subjects we all work with on a daily basis.
Never in a million years would I have imagined that going to CodeConnect would have resulted in me getting to participate in the SAP Developer News, nor that I would get to have great open discussions with other open source contributors.
It is definitely worth it, so if you get the chance I highly recommend that you participate!
Hopefully I will get the chance to contribute to the speakers list next year!
A Look Back At CodeConnect 2025It’s been almost 2 weeks now since I participated in the 2025 CodeConnect event, which was actually my first in-person CodeConnect ever.I would’ve participated in person sooner, but getting tickets is akin to trying to get the most popular item on Black Friday, it requires speed, precision and luck!But enough rambling about the tickets! Let’s take a look back at my journey to CodeConnect 2025.UI5Con 2025I’m going to skip the very first day of CodeConnect, mainly due to it being spent in a car for 16 hours, as me and my colleagues made the journey from the northern part of Jutland to St. Leon Rot.So for us, the conference didn’t start until day 2 with UI5Con, and that was some start.Upon arrival at the building, it was straight into networking and trying to decide what sessions were most interesting to participate in.We ended up doing a divide and conquer strategy in our group to get the most out of the day, with of course a focus on getting to the hands-on sessions.My day quickly became side-tracked as I caught up with both old and new faces in my effort to connect with all the other developers present at the event.Which, to be honest, for a mostly backend/cloud guy like me wasn’t all bad. While I do enjoy a tango with the frontend from time to time, my heart belongs to what goes on behind the scenes.But I did catch a lot of good talks still; so here are my take-aways from the first real day at CodeConnect:Ownership of styling is slowly being handed back to the developer, meaning we can now make proper custom components for UI5 that style correctly with the themes such as Horizon.Still no clear release date for UI5 v2, but we do have a legacy free 1.136 out there now that we can utilize and prepare withPromise for UI5 developers that keep in line with the UI5 Linter, that their code will be lift and shift (i.e. go use the linter asap!)The UI5 repository has completed its moving phase and is now living in its own repositoryAccessibility, much like everywhere else in the developer space at the moment, is the talk of the town, and SAP is doing a lot of improvements on this front2 test runners were presented as the replacements for the deprecated Karma runner. I know that I am leaning the most towards the WDI5 route due to it working as a more complete suite.Webcomponents are the main focus going forward, and even though there is no timestamp on it, it seems like it will replace many of our current components going forwardThat was pretty much my experience and take-aways for the first day there, and with it we wrapped up the UI5Con with some great food before heading back to the hotel.The next for me, I knew would be something special.reCAP 2025Second day for me at CodeConnect started out with a great opening key note by Daniel Hutzel. Although he ran out of time by the end, I wish we could’ve listened to him for just a little while longer.The key take-away of this keynote however, was extremely clear. Over the last year, the focus by the CAP team has really been on minimizing the footprint of the CAP/CDS install while optimizing and improving the feature set of the framework.And from what we were presented, that definitely looked like it came out as a success. As a developer that uses CAP on a daily basis, both for plugin development and end-user projects, I can definitely say that I have enjoyed the improvements so far.So a kudos to the CAP team is definitely in order on this! (Now we just need it to be open source!)Unfortunately, I did not have as much time to participate in the many sessions of this day, as much like the day before, the event became more of a networking experience.The sessions I did catch however, were absolutely great and definitely something that you should catch up on if you have the chance;Both sessions by Mike Zaschka (just always a good listen and everybody loves open source!)CAP Tools session by Christian Georgi (because you cannot be a good developer without knowing your tools)Server-side Pre-rendering by Volker Buzek and Wouter Lemaire (a great session with insights into another great open source initiative)CAP Best vs Bad Practices by Daniel HutzelGain a superpower by learning how to harness the CDS REPL by DJ Adams (seriously, learn REPL)While these were the only sessions I managed to catch, I did however experience something extremely important during the reCAP event, and that was the community.I got to connect with so many great people and talk about the passion of this side of the industry, and the love we all share for opens source technologies.I even got the chance to appear on the SAP Developer News to share my own open source contribution (MCP Plugin for CAP).And that is something I wouldn’t trade for anything.You Should AttendI hope it is clear from my post here that going to CodeConnect is an experience, no matter how you plan it. It is an event filled with great people and some great discussions around the subjects we all work with on a daily basis.Never in a million years would I have imagined that going to CodeConnect would have resulted in me getting to participate in the SAP Developer News, nor that I would get to have great open discussions with other open source contributors.It is definitely worth it, so if you get the chance I highly recommend that you participate!Hopefully I will get the chance to contribute to the speakers list next year! Read More Technology Blog Posts by Members articles
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