BurningbirdIt’s been in the 80’s almost 90 this week. It seems like every day we’re breaking temperature records. Last night I had to open all of my windows, which means that I woken at the crack of dawn by all the birds. I didn’t mind over much. Now, I’m sitting at my desk in front […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. A week or so ago I made a comment about not caring for the new current crop of agile programming paradigms including one of the more controversial, eXtreme programming. Stavros asked what my concerns were about these approaches. As a response, I pointed to the web site for the Agile Programming Manifesto. If a picture […]
Both Leigh Dobbs and Danny Ayers published notes that the Jena User Conference schedule has been posted. (Danny also made mention of dreaming about Jena and white-velvet pouffes, but don’t let that scare you away from RDF.) This has all the makings of being a pretty damn good conference. The sessions are focused either on specific applications or about the practicalities […]
I’m so tired today, I can barely put fingers to keyboard to type anything even remotely coherent. Traditionally, this is a state in which most programmers operate, but I’m not a very traditional programmer. I wasn’t just being a tease with the RDF data on S3 post–I am trying something rather fun, but I have […]
During tonight’s walk, I finally saw the pileated woodpecker. Several times, in fact, as he was looking for food in several trees and logs nearing the walk. No camera, but I did capture a bad photo on my cell phone. Of course, I don’t have photo service with my phone carrier, and won’t get it […]