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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: December 2008
What Are The Benefits of MVC?
Since there’s a rather nice discussion going on around my weekend post on RMR and MVC I thought I’d dig out the description of MVC from the Gang of Four book to remind us all what we’re actually talking about. … Continue reading
Second OpenVocab Logo
Darren Geraghty sent me a wonderful design idea for the OpenVocab logo competition. I’ve had two great submissions now.
Happy People
Stowe Boyd picks up on some very interesting research that suggests that people’s happiness is related to the happiness of their friends, their friends’ friends, and their friends’ friends’ friends. Specifically the report includes this: we found that each additional … Continue reading
Web Sequence Diagrams
Via Ryan Tomayko’s great article on gateway caches I found this neat webapp that generates UML sequence diagrams. Very handy and a clever implementation. It even has an API for integration into other tools
The Web is RMR not MVC
Last year I wrote a short post titled MVC Obscures the Mechanics of the Web that drew together some other peoples writings on why MVC is poorly matched to the web. I didn’t give an alternative though, apart from indirectly … Continue reading
Scott Berkun
Via Scott Berkun I found these two gems: a visualisation of the first 100 days in office of select US presidents and a report on just how much of a smokescreen current aviation security policy really is. I ended up … Continue reading
First OpenVocab Logos
Well, that was quick! Benjamin Nowack has already created a candidate for the OpenVocab logo and what a good one it is! Thanks Benji :)
Visualising OpenVocab
I added some visualisations of some of the relationships between properties and classes in OpenVocab: Relations – shows the relationships between classes and properties using domain and range. Sub-classes – shows the class hierarchies present in the vocabulary Sub-properties – … Continue reading
Introducing OpenVocab
OpenVocab is a project I have been working on in my spare time since spring. The recent VoCampsin Oxford and Galway gave me the opportunity to focus on getting it public and usable. The idea behind it is quite simple: … Continue reading
