Benefits of Refactoring to REST

Edd sent me a pointer to a nice article from Scott Raymond called "Refactoring to REST" in which he outlines how his application code was improved and simplified by adopting a more RESTful design. The application here was built on Rails and used the Simply Restful plugin to nudge Rails into a more RESTful aspect. … Continue reading Benefits of Refactoring to REST →

Java Hosting Recommendations?

I'm looking to move the hosting of my sites and applications to a new provider and am interested to hear if anyone has any recommendations. Ideally I want an environment that provides me with ssh access, Java and JSP/Servlet hosting through a private VM. I really want the freedom to be able to easily manage … Continue reading Java Hosting Recommendations? →

Feeding Google Co-Op with SPARQL

Last night I took my first look at Google Co-op, in particular the "Subscribed Links" feature which allows users to add services to Google search results. The developer documentation outlines the process by which you can go about creating a service, which is simply a matter of creating a fairly simple XML configuration file. The … Continue reading Feeding Google Co-Op with SPARQL →

A hack and a release

Courtesy of Lidia Rovan there's now a Croatian FOAF-a-Matic. Elsewhere I've been experimenting with adding GRDDL support to my SPARQL service. So its now possible to query microformats using SPARQL. Not sure whether to keep cross-posting this stuff, or try and get XAK blog on Planet RDF?

Hungarian FOAF-a-Matic

Thanks to Stefan Braun the FOAF-a-Matic is now available in Hungarian. Next up: Croatian. Would like: Russian.

XTech 2006: SPARQLing Services

I'm currently at XTech in Amsterdam and earlier this morning I gave my talk, "SPARQLing Services", an overview of SPARQL, with an emphasis on the SPARQL protocol and how SPARQL can benefit Web 2.0/AJAX applications. The full paper is online at the conference website. I've also uploaded the slides to my website which you can … Continue reading XTech 2006: SPARQLing Services →

Generating Google Earth Overlays with SPARQL and XSLT

Here's some notes on some hacking I've been doing over the last few days. Firstly, I've implemented some extensions for manipulating geo data in SPARQL queries. There's a write-up on the XMLArmyKnife blog. That allows you to ask questions such as "find points 10 kms from this location" and "test whether a point is within … Continue reading Generating Google Earth Overlays with SPARQL and XSLT →

Jena User Conference Write-Up

I was at the Jena User Conference this week up in HP Labs, for an very enjoyable series of Semantic Web and Jena related talks. There was an excellent series of presentations, see the schedule and #swig notes from Wednesday and Thursday for an overview of the sessions and lots of handy pointers. The proceedings … Continue reading Jena User Conference Write-Up →

Slug Presentation

I've uploaded the slides and paper I presented at the Jena User Conference this week. Slug: A Semantic Web Crawler (PDF) Slides (Open Document) or as PDF The talk seemed to go well, I had lots of questions both after the talk and in the break out sessions. Turned out a few people have been … Continue reading Slug Presentation →

SPARQL Service Updates

Thought I'd post a couple of pointers to some updates I've made to my SPARQL service: SPARQL Service Updates. Summary: now running latest release of ARQ; updated JSON output to match draft spec; support for query-uri parameter Local Mirrors of Useful RDF Datasources. Summary: title says it all, have mirrored some useful stuff to improve … Continue reading SPARQL Service Updates →