Revenge of the Sith

I have a confession to make: Revenge of the Sith is the first Star Wars film I've seen at the cinema. And I'm 33. That's probably enough to get me ostracised from geek society. I was old enough to see at least Jedi when it came out. And surely I should have been frothing at … Continue reading Revenge of the Sith →

IANAL

In an attempt to put my various projects into the Public Domain, it seems that I've caused some confusion. All I want to do is the following: label my code as being in the Public Domain, but require that people at least acknowledge the fact that they're using something I wrote. I'd prefer it if … Continue reading IANAL →

Sample Sparql Queries, Updated

Back in February I posted some sample sparql queries that might be useful as additional examples of the SPARQL syntax. Since then we've had several new drafts including some syntax changes. In this post I'm including updated versions of all queries. Except for one that is, see later discussion). I've also thrown in a few … Continue reading Sample Sparql Queries, Updated →

Twinkle 0.3

I've just uploaded the latest version of Twinkle: a SPARQL query tool. The project now has its own homepage and DOAP description. Version 0.3 of Twinkle basically just brings the tool up to date with the latest SPARQL syntax by moving to ARQ 0.9.5. I also added a few UI niceties such as icons, tooltips, … Continue reading Twinkle 0.3 →

GeoURL to GoogleMaps

Continuing yesterday's hack here's another stylesheet that converts RSS 1.0 annotated with geourl:latitude and geourl:longitude (e.g. geourl feeds) to the Google Maps format. I added a form you can use to generate links similar to this one which shows bloggers in my area. Looks like I can shout out the window to contact some of … Continue reading GeoURL to GoogleMaps →

WITW Using GoogleMaps

I've been itching to have a play with hacking about with GoogleMaps for a while now, especially so once their coverage reached the UK. So as an exercise I thought I'd try gluing together Norm Walsh's Where In The World service and the myGmaps.com proxy. The former problems simple location based data such as where … Continue reading WITW Using GoogleMaps →

Jaikoz

The developers of Jaikoz, a Java MP3 tag editor mailed be yesterday to say that their latest release is now live on their site. I'm mentioning this because Jaikoz bundles my MusicBrainz API for doing metadata lookups using MusicBrainz. Jaikoz is payware although there's a free trial available. I should note that I'm not getting … Continue reading Jaikoz →

Blog Changes

Just some notes on a few changes I've made to my blog setup. Firstly I've added the Make Poverty History white band to the home page. Obviously not visible if you're reading this in a browser but its a cause I do believe in, so why not go and click that link and find out … Continue reading Blog Changes →

Service Description Mailing List

If you're interested in web service descriptions, and in particular RESTful service descriptions you should get yourself over to public-web-http-desc, a new W3C mailing list dedicated to precisely that topic. From his introduction, Philippe Le Hegaret described the list as being ...dedicated to discussion of Web description languages based on URI/IRI and HTTP, and aligned … Continue reading Service Description Mailing List →

XTech Day Three

Belatedly (I only got back from Amsterdam last Monday), here are some notes from XTech Day 3. On the Friday morning I initially attended two talks about RDF frameworks, firstly Dave Beckett's Bootstrapping RDF applications with Redland and then David Wood's introduction to Kowari: A Platform for Semantic Web Storage and Analysis. I've not really … Continue reading XTech Day Three →