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RDF Writing

Ooo boy

I sent a note to the RDF Interest Group today, telling them about the draft of the book. I’ve already received some excellent feedback. Some people climb mountains. Others scale rock cliffs, or dive the deepest depths of the ocean. Still others race cars at 180 MPH, ride bulls, or sail across the ocean in a […]

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Just Shelley Writing

Hiho it’s off to edit I go

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I kept waking up last night with answers to the questions from yesterday’s interview popping into my head. The experience is comparable to a web bot being sent for information and returning two days later. Nice, but a little late. I’m feeling more than a little tired today, so not […]

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Just Shelley

Blew it

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I didn’t want to say anything before hand but I had an interview with Anhueser-Busch today. It was a J2EE developer position, and the location was ten minutes from my house. I met with the manager and four other people, and they started asking about EJB containers right off the […]

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RDF Writing

It feels so good when you stop

I am so burned out from the push to finish the draft this last week. It got to the point that I was coding PHP into a Java class, and I kept looking at some Python, trying to figure out why it looked funny (it’s Python, it’s supposed to look funny). And then I had […]

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Writing

Completed first draft of Practical RDF uploaded

I just uploaded the completed first draft of Practical RDF. You can read about it, and download the chapters at the book weblog. I was delayed with the upload trying to get a couple of RDF applications/APIs working this weekend, one last time, but finally had to give them up for a lost cause. At this […]