Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I’ll be speaking about RDF and the Semantic Web at the SDForum in San Francisco, October 9th. See more on the topic at the forum posting.
Year: 2001
51,000+ DotCom Layoffs…
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Being one of those that are part of a steeply growing curve, a layed off dot comer, I found the article Silicon Valley Workers Head Home in the Australian IT to be very interesting. According to a source quoted in the article, there have been over 51,564 people laid off from DotComs…to date. I bucked […]
New City, New Servers
The Burning Bird Corporation is now open for business in beautiful San Francisco. What can I say folks, but I love this city! In addition, I’ve aggregated all of my web sites on to one server. Hopefully the move will go smoothly, but if you find pages missing or out of synch, most likely they didn’t survive […]
Bits of prose
A long time ago in a place far, far away, and long before I started writing articles and books on computer technology, I used to write poems. Well, I called them poems. Recently, I found a folder of poems and decided to put my three favorite online. I’m aware that this could result in a […]
Originally published at O’Reilly The joke goes: “How do you pronounce ‘C#’?”, and the punch line is: “The language formerly known as Java.” Extending this, you can say that .NET is “…the infrastructure formerly known as COM/DCOM.” The .NET infrastructure is significantly different from COM/COM+. However, information about .NET has been out long enough so […]
