Great post from Dorothea on requirements for good markup tools. I agree with everything she says, and follow a few of the habits she lists myself: I tend to write an article and then markup it up, unless its only a very very short piece; and always fill in my URLs after the fact. I … Continue reading Thoughts on Markup Tools →

I've been working with FOAF a bit recently which has entailed a fair amount of reading through the FOAF namespace document. Doing a "View Source" on that page is also useful as you can then examine the embedded RDF Schema that describes the FOAF vocabulary; there's a lot more in the schema than is visible … Continue reading foaf2doc →

Whilst digging around during the implementation of my FOAF Bookmarklet I came across a number of interesting bookmarklet techniques and examples. I've started documenting some of these in wordtin. See Bookmarklet for an entry point. The Bookmarklet Bootloader is a very interesting technique. I started writing up some notes on the techniques for using bookmarklets … Continue reading Bookmarklets →

There are a few web applications available for displaying FOAF files in a human-friendly format. For example there's FOAF Web View, FOAFnaut, and FOAF Explorer. A number of folk have also started using FOAF autodiscovery to LINK to their own FOAF descriptions. This uses the same principle as RSS autodiscovery. I thought that it'd be … Continue reading FOAF Autodiscovery Bookmarklet →

I've just uploaded the final version of Spooky which is a little language for describing project structures and their default contents. Just tinkering really.

I'm interested in building a list of "Link Dropper" sites and would welcome suggestions if you have any. What do I mean by a Link Dropper? Basically a site that will drop some data into your existing webpage using a scripting language, e.g. Javascript or PHP. My canonical example is the Meerkat Javascript Source flavour … Continue reading Link Droppers →

There's usually more than one way to get something on the net. There are dozens of online bookstores, search engines, new sites, document repositories, etc, etc. And we all have different preferences. Even for sites like Google and Amazon there is room for choice, e.g. different Google mirrors or regional Amazon sites. Yet when we … Continue reading User-Centred Linking →

Rick Jelliffe has been working on Schematron once more, showing how to add support for variables and an implementation of the "abstract patterns" concept which was apparently the central idea behind Schematron's original design. The idea is that there are basic patterns, e.g. head/body, table/row/cells that are common to many different markup vocabularies. The individual … Continue reading Schematron and Architectural Forms →

I did some more hacking on Spooky last night and ended up splitting the implementation up into a core stylesheet and individual implementations that further refine the project creation. There's only support for simple Java projects at present, but I'll add some more. This'll make life easier for me, if no-one else. I tend to … Continue reading More Spooky-ness →