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Tuesday, July 01 2003

Philip Roche has written an RSS aggregator for Mozilla which is cool all on its own, but I find it interesting as a big batch of example code for doing...

Wednesday, July 02 2003

Bloogle : "We will not be implementing or supporting the Blogger API 2.0."
It's not that anything Maciej has said is wrong so much as it misses the fact that because Canada is so big, we have a slightly different notion...
document(//a/@href[contains(., '.html')])/html/head/title
Eric Meyer : Using the :target selector Most excellent. Now I can implement the show/hide metadata hack in pure CSS.
Karl Dubost : La balise object sert à insérer des objets, n'importe-quel type d'objet. La balise object sert à insérer des objets, n'importe-quel type d'objet. Vous savez lorsque ...

Thursday, July 03 2003

Ben Hammersley : "Life is too short and summer is too precious to spend it inside dealing with a development community quite so socially dysfunctional."

Monday, July 07 2003

devshed : Date Arithmetic With MySQL

Tuesday, July 08 2003

"L'été c'est le temps de la crème glacée!" I was about to ask my mother whether she would consider living in Bangkok when Carmine s...
Jeroen Bekaert has restarted a thread about "URIrefs and granularity" on the www-rdf-interest list. This is of value to me because it's the first time I've been a...
We need to cement the consent that we meant?! What the fuck is that supposed to mean? I think my lunch is turning to cement...

Wednesday, July 09 2003

Mark Bittman : Borscht is the highest and best use for a beet. The newest issue of The Art of Eating found its way in to my mail box yesterday. It contains...
Douglas McLennan : "It's not particularly in their interest to cut us off. I can be their biggest deliverer of traffic."
Movable Thoughts #19 : CGIPath != mod_dir.c A "trailing slash" redirect is issued when the server receives a request for a URL http://se...
Ponie is a version of Perl 5 that will run on Parrot. To the naked eye that sentence is almost as incomprehensible as an RDF statement...

Thursday, July 10 2003

Joan Starr : "To the uninitiated, the development of a metadata standard might appear to be a passionless occupation."
Jon Udell : The Document is the Database It's handy that the "database" is a self-contained package that can be updated using any tex...
Dan Brickley : Identifying things in FOAF If two different RDF files (eg. FOAF documents) are talking about the same thing but don't u...
The Ascii Art Dictionary This is just screaming to be turned into a Dict database. via netvironments.
Karl commits the ultimate sacrilege and says something nice about that thing, downtown, that used to be the Forum.
From the "Oui Are All in the Same Boat" department : But then Canada would become a donut-shaped country. Well, given the ...

Friday, July 11 2003

Separated at birth : Aaron Startup Cope
I wrote a patch for File::Find::Rule::XPath (0.2) that adds support for namespaces. I don't know if the maintainer will accept it but, until then, it works for me.
Sean B. Palmer wrote a pure Python RDF parser

Sunday, July 13 2003

Philemon nodded knowingly. Are you out of your mind? Shelby asked. There's already so much food that no one will ha...
karl:humpty dumpty != aaron:omelette This is not an N3 problem. It is an interface problem and since every single Semantic Weenie I'v...

Monday, July 14 2003

Elliotte Rusty Harold : Remember Mixed Content What's really telling in this example is that the community promptly hacked their own uglier...
Me : Net::Blogger.pm 0.86_02 Fixed some minor bugs and major typos. Added missing MovableType mt API methods. This is pro...

Tuesday, July 15 2003

Phillipe A. Martin : Integration of WordNet 1.7 in WebKB-2 ...although WordNet categories have intuitive names (English nouns or nominal expressions), ...
http://xmlns.com/wordnet/1.6/egg This might work...

Wednesday, July 16 2003

Kake Pugh : How to Avoid Writing Code The reason that Class::DBI and the Template Toolkit work so well together is simple. Templat...

Thursday, July 17 2003

We are looking for a volunteer with a passion for documentary films and experience with Perl We are looking for a volunteer with a passion for documentary films and experience with Perl...
Jirka Kosek : Understanding the node-set() Function You might be wondering whether the node-set() function will be part of [XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2...

Friday, July 18 2003

Jeni Tennison : Comparing Documents [in XSLT] This page will hold information about how to compare several XML documents with each other u...
Leon Brocard : Image::IPTCInfo::TemplateFile.pm ...allows the loading of data from an IPTC template file... I'm not entirely sure wha...

Saturday, July 19 2003

Dean Allen : Oliver, Daily: 13 July 2003

Sunday, July 20 2003

Matthias Wandel : Building a megapixel digital camera from a flatbed scanner I started playing around with my flatbed scanner to see if I could capture images of stuff a...
Me : A better Photo RDF @prefix : <http://www.w3.org/2000/PhotoRDF/dc-1-0#>. @prefix a:<http://aaronland.info/web...
<s0:http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/identifier /> So, I was farting around with RDFpic and I even went as far as to write a little widget that tri...

Monday, July 21 2003

Sean M. Burke : I18N::LangTags.pm super_languages("fr-CA-joual") is ("fr-CA", "fr")

Tuesday, July 22 2003

It should be noted that we were almost called Borelia (as in the North Wind to compliment the Southern one in Australia (ah, Empire...)) but for Q...
Excerpted : "The wonkish waters of RDF mailing lists" Subject: [N3] equivalencies From: Aaron Straup Cope Date: 22 Jul 2003 15:01:10 +0000 ...

Wednesday, July 23 2003

$> dict obfuscated

Thursday, July 24 2003

The New York Times ties its panties in a knot over wireless back-channelling. This is a funny article in that it uses the classroom as the hook and then devolves quickly ...

Friday, July 25 2003

Excerpted : Is that a database in your pants? Friday June 13 2003 Montreal The other day I finished importing five years of emai...
TODO : Image::Shoehorn::Gallery.pm # Use F:F:R:MMagic for finding images # doesn't always work (let when you # deleted...

Saturday, July 26 2003

Did you just take a picture of my knees?
Ed Bilodeau : Regarding the lack of RSS. RDF weenies are probably clutching their sides in pain but we're gonna make Ed bigger than the b...

Sunday, July 27 2003

It would appear that another, less irate, way of posing my question from the other day is to ask whether the RDF spec defines any way of assigning inline RFC 2168 style declaratio...

Monday, July 28 2003

Bill : You gotta have it see also : one of my favourite pieces of graffiti
Bill, that's a terrible analogy. You're suggesting wasting milk and ruining a perfectly good carpet. That's not a fear of fin...

Tuesday, July 29 2003

Wednesday, July 30 2003

Norm Walsh : Vicious Circle I maintain however, that using [URLs] as names is confusing because it violates the niave us...
John Beppu : Apache::AuthenMT.pm That's pretty clever. I wonder how hard it would be to hack the package such that membership to ...

Thursday, July 31 2003

Sighted : The B-boat

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