Archive for July, 2006



More on Queso

put a web front-end onto [an] RDF store
~wingerz » Blog Archive » A Queso Example
Over at ~wingerz, a more thorough explanation of what technologies are involved with Queso.

RDF
Atom
JSON
XHTML
RDFa
SPARQL
Microtemplates

Scenarios are spelled out and how all these technologies interact to create a simple, yet cohesive, application. The potential of this application is by introducing semi-structured data through [...]

Elias Torres has a new project brewing and a great demo. As I am greatly interested in all things Atom, thought I’d pass it along…

…if you are an Atom hacker, all you need besides your knowledge of the protocol is Vi and curl.
Elias Torres » Blog Archive » Queso - a Semantic Web/Web 2.0 server
The [...]

Ajax was big at this year’s OSCON. Whereas the phrase “Web 2.0” seemed to be accompanied by awkwardly constructed sentences, noticable hesitations, or nervous laughter, “Ajax” flowed of the tongue like sugar.
Although this is only my second OSCON in as many years, from discussion with a sample of those I met this last week, OSCON [...]

Update: It has been a few weeks. Now that the dust has settled, I’d like to note that I made an enormous mistake posting these thoughts. I am, in fact, embarassed that I even had them to begin with. I apologize to 37signals and applaud their strategy to convert freeloaders to paying customers. I am [...]

Service Provider

Why didn’t I know about this before?
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/jar/jar.html#Service%20Provider
A service provider identifies itself by placing a provider-configuration file in the resource directory META-INF/services.