BurningbirdI need to finish my “Semiotics of I” essay with its discussion of URIs, representations, and self (“I am linked, therefore I am”). However, the weather saps my energy as we enter our fifth day of hot weather alerts. Rather than profound writing on web esoterics, I’ll be happy if I can actually manage to […]
There’s lots of discussion about the nasty doings among the technologists, but let’s face it – we’re rank amateurs compared to the political parties in this country. While the media is dazzled by the carnival atmosphere surrounding the recall in California, in Texas a group of Democrats are fighting a far more difficult battle to […]
Practical RDF has now been immortalized in a comic strip. Achewood Hey! I love black licorice!
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. (Note: all examples are compiled and run on a Windows 2000 box, MySql 4.x, Java 1.4.1_01) I downloaded and unzipped the Jena2 from the SourceForge project and first thing I noticed is that there is a lot of material with this download. With the classes for the ontology support as well as […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. While factories in the real world tend to be messy, ugly things polluting the environment, within Java, they’re wonderful creations that hide much of the implementation detail of Java interfaces. This is particularly obvious when we take a look at porting the third example from Chapter 8 in Practical RDF […]