FOAF-a-Matic Mark 2 beta-2

It's now been 10 months since I released the first beta of the FOAF-a-Matic Mark 2. An embarrassingly long time indeed, so I thought it was high time that I produced a second beta for you all to play with. I've not been working on this solidly for 10 months and when you take a … Continue reading FOAF-a-Matic Mark 2 beta-2 →

Entity Management in XML applications

I'm very pleased to say that my latest tutorial for IBM developerWorks is now up on their site: Enity Management in XML applications It covers the XML catalog specification and using the Apache XML Resolver classes to add catalog support to your XML applications. Why would you do that? Read the tutorial and find out...

MusicBrainz Java API beta-1

I've just uploaded the beta-1 of my shiny new Java API onto the MusicBrainz RDF web service. If you're not familiar with MusicBrainz, it's similar to CDDB: it stores lists of artists, albums and tracks that can be used to add metadata to your music collection. Aaron Swartz wrote a nice article on it a … Continue reading MusicBrainz Java API beta-1 →

JBoss Documentation Wiki

A while ago I bemoaned the fact that there wasn't an independent JBoss documentation project. I was pleasantly surprised to discover via a comment left under that posting that there is now such as beast: JBoss Documentation Wiki There's even some initial content in there. If this gets some serious attention from you Java bloggers … Continue reading JBoss Documentation Wiki →

BloggerCon FOAF

Dave Winer has been suggesting that attendees to BloggerCon 2003 go and register on the BloggerCon blog roll Seeing at the list of attendees is available in OPML and I'd already processed a similar format for MS Bloggers yesterday I thought that I'd do the same thing. Here's the stylesheet. Deciding to go one better … Continue reading BloggerCon FOAF →

Print-Friendly Bookmarklet

Adverts get pretty annoying when you're trying to concentrate on the details of a technical article. The tendency to stick bloody great images just after the first paragraph is something that I especially find irritating. I tend to find myself hitting "print friendly" links as soon as possible. As articles then tend to get delivered … Continue reading Print-Friendly Bookmarklet →

MS Bloggers in FOAF; Java Bloggers Next?

Dan Brickley has written up a note on the FOAF Wiki about using the foaf:weblog property, pointing to an OPML listing of Microsoft bloggers. I wrote a little XSLT stylesheet to do this conversion automatically. And here are some sample results. See the Wiki page for more details. Interestingly Matt Biddulph's Chumpologica accepts a very … Continue reading MS Bloggers in FOAF; Java Bloggers Next? →

6 Degrees of Mr Benn

As if by magic...Mr Benn now has a FOAF file and he's already in foafnaut. For example you can discover him by starting from me and clicking through to danbri who, in true Bob Hoskins style, is acting as a bridge between the real and 'toon worlds. Mr Benn is always on the look out … Continue reading 6 Degrees of Mr Benn →

RDF Forms

Mark Baker has posted the first draft of RDF Forms: "The Semantic Web is currently missing two key features of the hypermedia application model which are prevalent on the browser based Web; the ability to declare the intent to receive data for processing, and the ability to use data as arguments in the client-side construction … Continue reading RDF Forms →