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Archive for December 2003

Practical RDF town hall at XML 2003

Friday, December 12th, 2003

Practical RDF town hall at XML 2003 report by Norm Walsh on why he’s using RDF for practical things. The RDF Interest group chump entry for the meeting links to the chat and slides from Dan Brickley, Dan Connolly and Edd Dumbill. Edd nicely promotes my Redland, what a star!

Minding the Planet, Nova Spivack - Radar Networks

Friday, December 12th, 2003

Minding the Planet weblog of Nova Spivack who is president and CEO of Radar Networks a semantic web startup, just moving to Silicon Valley. His page says they will be hiring semantic web Java developers in CA soon and lists several of the people they already have working, and some hints at what they are doing.

He’s been working on a new [...]

Linux Weekly News 2003-12-11

Friday, December 12th, 2003

Linux Weekly News 2003-12-11

Cairographics - libpixman added to CVS

Wednesday, December 10th, 2003

More Cairographics work - [cairo] libpixman added to CVS merging libpxregion, libic and slim. Some API renaming to consider.

RDF Core WG telcon Minutes 2003-12-05

Tuesday, December 9th, 2003

RDF Core WG telcon Minutes 2003-12-05

Cairographics day - packaging, committing, libpixman - libpixregion, libic and slim merged; cairo built with it

Monday, December 8th, 2003

It is Cairographics day here. I built a few more debian packages (on the new site) and committed some changed to the CVS for the demos. Then I tried something that has been hanging about for a while which makes the packaging more complex than it need be, and merged three packages. The result is in my (hasty) [...]

Semantic Web Tapestry

Saturday, December 6th, 2003

I found some hilarious tapestries on Something Awful made from the Historic Tale Construction Kit. I then couldn’t resist making one of my own.

A New Website for Harper’s Magazine

Thursday, December 4th, 2003

A New Website for Harper’s Magazine (Ftrain.com) by Paul Ford on the story of how he made the the new Harper’s Magazine website with semantic web technology. The code generated will be open sourced to make a CMS based on RDF.

One more post about ApacheCon 2003

Thursday, December 4th, 2003

One more post about ApacheCon 2003 (O’Reilly Network) by Rod Chavez on ASF, Tapestry, Geronimo, Coccoon and other sessions.

The GPL Is a License, not a Contract

Thursday, December 4th, 2003

The GPL Is a License, not a Contract (subscriber only) by Pamela Jones, Editor of Groklaw, in LWN.

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