Monthly Archives: August 2004

FriendSpace Demo for Galway

Posted on 31 August 2004 by

Finally got the website up for the FriendSpace demo. FriendSpace is a proof of concept collaboration service demonstrating how it is possible to use FOAF to build services where the user retains control over all their personal information. Many more … Continue reading →

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Concise Bounded Descriptions

Posted on 19 August 2004 by

Patrick Stickler’s Concise Bounded Descriptions are shaping up to be pretty useful, especially when aggregating RDF from disparate sources. The specification now has its own page and I notice that Patrick has refined the rules for including blank nodes in … Continue reading →

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Rename Method Refactoring in .NET

Posted on 18 August 2004 by

When programming in .NET there’s a useful little idiom that can assist with some renaming refactorings. In his book, Fowler lists the steps needed to rename a method safely. Step 6 is “Find all references to the old method name … Continue reading →

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XML Extensibility and the RDF Model

Posted on 18 August 2004 by

Dan Brickley comes out with a stonking good post to atom-syntax succintly listing all the reasons why RSS 1.0 adopted the RDF model: (fairly) predictable XML notation; RSS 1.0 defined a profile of the RDF/XML syntax, so that namespace-extended feeds … Continue reading →

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