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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: July 2007
links for 2007-07-19
The Fishbowl: Understanding Engineers: Feasibility Great translation of engineer-speak to the real world (tags: culture geek engineering software) Interview MUD creator Richard Bartle on the state of virtual worlds He invented the genre and I remember reading about him and … Continue reading
Don’t Fight The Web
Bill’s latest post conatains echoes of fellow Talisian Andrew’s recent frustrations with Java web frameworks. Bill writes: What’s interesting is the culture of frameworks and what different communities deem valuable. My sense of it is that on Java, too many … Continue reading
When Distributed Computing Meets Static Typing
However, the insidious thing is that the failure wasn’t because their application was improperly coded to fail if it saw a fruit it didn’t know, it was because the platform they built on was statically typed. Specifically, the Web Services … Continue reading
links for 2007-07-17
INRIA :: [inria-00162088, version 1] Understanding the Properties of the BitTorrent Overlay BitTorrent generates a robust overlay, but this isn’t a random graph: the connectivity of a peer to its neighbors depends on its arriving order in the torrent. A … Continue reading
links for 2007-07-16
FlightAware – Free Flight Tracker View any flight’s progress in real time (tags: travel flight tracking free) Open Source Semantic Desktop Is Coming Mandriva is an active participant in the NEPOMUK effort along with HP, IBM, SAP and others. Mandriva … Continue reading
Release 1.0, July 1999
Wow! O’Reilly have just put up the entire archive of Esther Dyson’s Release 1.0 journal, now renamed Release 2.0. I was interviewed by Kevin Werbach back in ’99 and was featured in the July issue on syndication (the hot new … Continue reading
links for 2007-07-13
OTM 2007 Federated Conferences Great collection of conferences and workshops – hoping to attend (tags: conference peer-to-peer semantic-web distributed computing)
links for 2007-07-12
How to Cold Read – wikiHow I’m always fascinated when I see this on TV and annoyed when I see it used to exploit people. (tags: wikihow psychology cold reading tricks) DIET Agents tutorial Interesting appoach to massivily distributed systems … Continue reading
Remixing Data at Amazon
Some reassuring words from Amazon’s Werner Vogels: We went through a period of serious introspection and concluded that a service-oriented architecture would give us the level of isolation that would allow us to build many software components rapidly and independently. … Continue reading
