Streams, Pools and Reservoirs

I often find it useful to try on different metaphors for application design and architecture. The stock set of patterns that are used in a particular domain are always very useful for communicating the design and intent of a complex application, but I find that experimenting with different approaches is a useful exercise that often … Continue reading Streams, Pools and Reservoirs →

ARQ Updates

I hadn't seen anyone blog this yet, but Andy Seaborne has released ARQ 2.0. Looks like Andy has been doing some internal restructuring on the code but the most interesting new feature is initial support for a draft SPARQL Update language. And earlier today Vinaya Shastrakar posted to jena-dev to announce some custom extensions to … Continue reading ARQ Updates →

Birthday Snapshot #5

Time for my annual (late, as my birthday was over a week ago!) spot of navel-gazing... Home Kids grow up fast. We seem to have rapidly developed from having two toddlers through to having two little people (or is that geeks) living with us. Ethan adapted to school extremely well and is well and truly … Continue reading Birthday Snapshot #5 →

The Semantics of 301 Moved Permanently

Section 10.3.2 of RFC2616 describes the HTTP status code 301 Moved Permanently. The first paragraph explains that the status code means that: The requested resource has been assigned a new permanent URI and any future references to this resource SHOULD use one of the returned URIs. Clients with link editing capabilities ought to automatically re-link … Continue reading The Semantics of 301 Moved Permanently →

XForms on the Intranet

Elliotte Harold has published a nice introduction to XForms in Firefox on IBM developerWorks. In the conclusion he notes that: Client-side XForms processing won't be possible for public-facing sites until XForms is more widely deployed in browsers. However, that doesn't mean you can't deploy it on your intranet today. If you're already using Firefox (and … Continue reading XForms on the Intranet →

Honey, I Geeked The Kids

Recent conversation at the Dodds Family Residence: Martha (who is three): Mummy, I want to go to the hair dresser Debs: OK Martha: I want to have the straggly bits cut so I look more like a Jedi Debs (to me): What have you done to my kids?! I don't think its entirely my fault, … Continue reading Honey, I Geeked The Kids →

Quakr

Quakr is a project to build a 3-dimensional world from user contributed photos, a.k.a. some friends having fun with geek hacking. I see they submitted an abstract to XTech too. The blog links to some interesting experiments mashing up Google Maps with a Flash and VRML viewer. The Quakr 7D Tiltometer is worth viewing too … Continue reading Quakr →

Five Things

The "five things" meme is still doing the rounds and it turns out I've been tagged by Phil Wilson. So here's five things that you almost certainly don't know about me: My wife and I got together at University after a Rag 3-legged pub crawl. Yes, my charm is so bad that tieing myself to … Continue reading Five Things →

XML Hypertext: Not Dead, Merely Resting?

"The dreams of XML hypertext are dead, or at least thoroughly dormant" Simon St Laurent's XML.com article on XQuery is an interesting read. But I think the above statement is worth discussing. Is XML hypertext really dead? Or, if its dormant, is it going to remain so? Firstly what is XML hypertext? I presume from … Continue reading XML Hypertext: Not Dead, Merely Resting? →

Messages From the Future

On the Web, you need to be able to process messages from the future. Interesting post from Mark Baker about XML validation and web services: Validation considered harmful