BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. John Robb’s posted his Tops and Flops in Technology for 2001. Among the flops, he picked P2P, 3G, Portals, and Open Source. Among the tops he posted Tivo, Wifi, and digital cameras. As you can imagine, there is disagreement with his choices, such as Dive Into Mark. I also take exception to […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Hey, Blogger was listed as one of the seven wonders of the Web world, along with Amazon, Google, eBay, Yahoo, Project Gutenberg, and Multimap. I’m not into online auctions, and I’ve never heard of Multimap, but I’m a big user of Google, I use Blogger for this weblog (at this time), and […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I moved today’s original posting to my web site OpEd page — it’s too large for a weblog. I’ll post it later this weekend when I have time to finish it. In the meantime, I’m still responding to the folks who volunteered for the RDF book tech editing process. Too many good […]
I sent a request for technical reviewers of my book “Practical RDF” to the Semantic Web, RDF Interest, and Jena Interest groups . My hope is that I’ll get volunteers that reflect the book’s targeted audience, and so far I’m getting a terrific response from an incredibly interesting mix of people. In fact, I’m extremely […]
One of the most innovative features of C# is the concept of managed and unmanaged code. It is this that truly differentiates this language from its more commonly used cousins, C++ and Java. What is unmanaged code? Well, put simply, unmanaged code is any C# code that uses pointers. Conversely, managed code could be considered […]