Apologies to anyone who has mailed me over the last week or so and is still waiting for a response. We've just gone through an application release here at work and so things have been extremely busy. Not had time to think about anything other than bug fixing. In case you're interested we've just moved … Continue reading Busy, Busy →

I took some time last night to start refactoring the FOAF Wiki. This was something we needed to do, but comments on rdfweb-dev from Marc Canter, suggesting that folk are struggling without decent FOAF documentation, prompted me to devote a bit more time to it this week. I'm pretty happy with the result as I've … Continue reading Wiki Refactoring →

Rick Jelliffe has announced a short document describing the differences between Schematron 1.5, 1.6, and ISO Schematron. The latter being the version that will become part of the ISO DSDL standard. What with Jing now supporting Schematron, and the publication of James Clark's Namespace Routing Language document, the DSDL effort seems to be moving forward … Continue reading Schematron Progress →

Further proof to myself that my design skills could easily be replaced by a small shell script: Strange Banana: computer-generated webpage design. I've been idly clicking through this for a couple of minutes and seen layouts that were quite reasonable. Better than I could have produced anyway, but that's not saying much really. Maybe someone … Continue reading Strange Banana →

Edd Dumbill and Dave Beckett have set up a Chump bot to allow community coverage of WWW2003. This is an excellent idea, and will sure to be packed full of useful and interesting links. However one thing I'd like to see conference organisers do more of is to make the presentations available over the web … Continue reading Conferences On the Web →

I'm currently down with this flu that seems to be doing the rounds at the moment, which is a shame as there have been some interesting responses to my "When to use RDF?" question. Look at the comments and trackbacks for input from Dan Brickley, Shelley and Dorothea. I'm just hoping it isn't going to … Continue reading Contamination Zone →

Here's the relationship between the three websites I'm maintaining at the moment. eclectic -- freshly invigorated for the new year, this is where I blog discussion on XML-DEV and, when there's a slow day or something catches my eye, happenings elsewhere in XML-land. wordtin -- my online notebook. Just for me to jot down notes, … Continue reading eclectic, wordtin, and this blog →

I'm quite impressed with Movable Type, and have still only barely scratched the surface. The built in styles are all fairly inoffensive so I've selected "Plain Jane" for now. At some point I'm going to have to face up to the fact that when it comes to web design I'm crap. (Look ma, I changed … Continue reading Movable Type →