IF THE MOUNTAIN WILL NOT COME TO MOHAMMED, MOHAMMED WILL GO TO THE MOUNTAIN – “If one cannot get one’s own way, one must adjust to the inevitable. The legend goes that when the founder of Islam was asked to give proofs of his teaching, he ordered Mount Safa to come to him. When the […]
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The Wordform/WordPress metaform
Time to start releasing some code. The Metaform RDF extension and plugins are finally really for beta use. The Metaform Extension creates a new page in your WordPress weblog that provides a home for all metadata extensions. You’ll also need to add a few lines to your wp-configure.php file and a couple of your templates. The install.txt […]
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The Bottoms Up RDF Tutorial
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. When I wrote the first chapter of the book, Practical RDF I used the analogy of the blind men describing an elephant to describe how people see RDF. With the original fable, each blind man would feel a different part of the elephant and make a decision about what the elephant looked […]
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Quiet
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Today was a quiet day, and I’m in a quiet mood; mainly interested in working with code and doing some tech writing. I’ve completed my first set of WordPress/Wordform metadata plug-ins, just finishing up processing the XMP data in the photographs and getting the work cleaned up and packaged. I’ll […]
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Good news and better news
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I have some good news and some better news. The good news is I have more time to finish two technical projects, as I won’t be speaking at XML 2005. One of the projects is a set of metadata plugins based in RDF for both WordPress and Wordform weblogs; the […]