Most of the time the feeds at Planet RDF reference isolated items with general interest. Other times, though, the thoughts featured strike sparks against each other, leading to a chain reaction whereby everyone jumps in and Things Happen. Starting a few days ago, people have been referencing two stories, both of which I find very interesting. The […]
I have several tasks that need finishing, and I’ve set myself a deadline to finish them. The projects include an overdue software documentation project (which should give hope to the poor soul waiting on it); an article on syndication feeds for O’Reilly; an outline of a presentation on RDF for XML 2005; a PHP nuSOAP interface […]
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Repeating
Dare Obasanjo writes: Repeat after me, a web page is not an API or a platform. Versioning APIs is hard enough, let alone trying to figure out how to version an HTML website so screen scrapers are not broken. Web 2.0 isn’t about screenscraping. Turning the Web into an online platform isn’t about legitimizing bad practices […]
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The last to be rescued
Excerpted from the Humane Society article After the flood, animals find way to survive in the Big Easy. Adrift in this floating living room, the golden-coated pit bull found shelter in the only place the water couldn’t reach: a black-metal frame encasing the air conditioning unit in a nearby window. At least that’s where the rescue […]
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Serenity Countdown
As I was fortuitously reminded, Serenity opens up in a few short weeks: September 30th. I and my roommate have decided we both wanted to see it on the day it comes out, but the where is still open. I also found out that Archon 29 the big St. Louis Fiction and Fantasy convention is going on […]