I was pleased that the W3C RDF Data Access WG (DAWG) agreed (minutes yet to appear) to my proposal to finally decide the meaning of the name SPARQL being used for the query language and protocol we’re making. This re-defines my initial naming so now SPARQL stands for: SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language
Lovely! I was inspired by GNU and that era of [...]
I just became the editor of a new W3C Working Draft: SPARQL Variable Binding Results XML Format published today 2004-12-21 as part of the RDF Data Access Working Group (DAWG) work I participate in. Like the title says, it defines an XML format to write down the SPARQL (SPARQL Protocol and Query Language, pronounced sparkle) variable binding query results, trying to [...]
Camels and Rubber Duckies (Joel on Software) by Joel Spolsky. On pricing software.
I have just finished reading his book
Joel on Software and have now been sucked into reading his articles. The book is quite irritating in many places but he’s such a good writer with lots of Opinions (yeah yeah) and has occasional insights that it’s worth reading. Especially when explaining the [...]
Using an iPod with Linux - hurrah for crashing US$ exchange rates!
The XTech 2005 Call for Participation has just been announced. It’s what was formerly XML Europe but now covers a wider area of tech, in areas that are rather hot at the moment - Browser Technology which could be called the Web Application platform, and includes all the buzz in the web on mobiles. Open Data covers the kind of application [...]
Weblog archives for December 2004.
