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Ian Davis: British; married with kids; technical architect; CTO of Talis; co-author of RSS 1.0; creator of FOAF icons; Semantic Web hacker.
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Monthly Archives: January 2004
Interview with Aaron Swartz
In this interview, Aaron makes reference to the problem that Pepys (my wysiwiki) sets out to solve: the disconnect between reading a wiki and editing it. While wikis have achieved some of this, there?s still a lot to be done. … Continue reading
Very Low Defect Projects
Martin Fowler writes about Very Low Defect Projects: I was particularly happy to run into the second case I saw – since it involved several of my old friends from C3. They are now building some portal software at Chrysler. … Continue reading
Float Right
This is such a neat solution to a problem that’s been nagging me for ages: how to get a table-free page layout with a right-hand sidebar but with the sidebar content being after the main content in the HTML. The … Continue reading
Orkut Social Network
Here’s another social networking service: Orkut which has been designed by one of Google’s employees. I didn’t know this, but apparently Google allows employees to spend up to 20% of their time on personal interest projects. That’s pretty cool and … Continue reading
Grunk
I’ve just come across Grunk, a Java based toolkit for scraping semi-structured text. The concept is a bit like having regular expressions that work in terms of words rather than characters. The patterns are specified in an XML format so … Continue reading
Pepys Revisited
After a 12-month hiatus, I’m back hacking on Pepys, my desktop wysiwiki. I’m just about done on a number of outstanding bug fixes, clearing the decks for a series of new features. I’m also going to start writing about it … Continue reading
Ingredients for Serious Thought
I’ve just come across a this list of Ingredients for Serious Thought by Lance Fortnow, a researcher in computational complexity. Although I don’t claim to be capable of proving even the simplest theorems in complexity theory, these are exactly the … Continue reading
Turtle
This looks very useful: Turtle – Terse RDF Triple Language (formerly N-Triples Plus) by Dave Beckett. It’s an extension to N-Triples adding some of the neat features from Notation3 which makes it a pretty sensible alternative to RDF/XML. For comparison, … Continue reading
Opera Supports RSS Natively
I’ve been trying out the new Opera 7.5 preview which now supports RSS 0.91, 1.0 and 2.0! Best of all it’s fully integrated into the M2 mail client which means that you can use all the mail filters to organise … Continue reading
Entry-Level Unicode for XML
Jon Hanna has launched himself into webspace with a true tour de force: Entry-Level Unicode for XML. This article covers just about all you need to know about using Unicode with XML, either as an application or parser developer. My … Continue reading
