January 2012
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An interesting look at UI going forward →
September 2011
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Kingsley Idehen - Google - What Facebook Can... →
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Why we love the things we build? →
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The Covenant - A New Approach to Open Source... →
With a huge portions of the Internet & a huge number of devices relying on opensource software (Operating Systems, Web Servers, Mail Servers, Browsers) and even commercial closed source projects relying on many opensource software (libraries, source code management systems, build systems etc. with liberal licenses), no one can underestimate the importance of opensource software.
However...
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A beer can to Amplify your Wifi signal! →
I know beer works for me, I got to see if the can works for my Wifi. I cant wait to have a beer and try the trick at home.
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Will the next Kindle feature E-ink Color? →
August 2011
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Aidan Dwyer - Innovator at age 13, wins Young... →
Aidan Dwyer, inspired by trees, arranges solar panels like leaves on an Oak tree to reap more power even in low light conditions. Read More…
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Installing & running orientdb on Ubuntu Server
I just downloaded and installed OrientDB version 1.0rc4 on my Ubuntu server.
It is straight forward to get it up and running but with a few caveats for the Ubuntu user who wants to have Orientdb running at system startup.
If you haven’t heard of OrientDB before, please checkout the orient-db website.
And here are the first few mundane, no-brainers.
Download OrientDB:
You can go to...
June 2011
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US Patent Office Rejects Oracle's 17 Out Of 21... →
May 2011
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Why the new guy can't code →
This Tech Crunch post by John Evans has very interesting insights on Hiring people for Development.
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… I think there are parallels between technological development and...
– Linus Torvalds (In an interview with LinuxFR)
April 2011
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SSL and the future of Authenticity →
February 2011
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Ants build cheapest networks →
January 2011
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October 2010
3 posts
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Graph Databases: Trends in the Web of Data
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Blueprints - Property Graph Model →
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OrientDB Introduction
September 2010
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Getting closer to nature...
Its not about green-living or protecting the environment (though it could be related). Its about scientific research learning from nature and finding solutions imitating it. Reflecting this are the two articles published recently, one about Self powered parts becoming electronic mainstay and another about Self assembling photovoltaic cells.
August 2010
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Inference
The basic idea of inference is that it is possible to know more about a set of data than what is explicitly expressed in the data.
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OWL vs. OOP
complexmissions:
In object-oriented programming, a class is like a blueprint or template for the creation (instantiation) of objects; an object is an instance of a class. OWL classes are interpreted as sets that contain individuals, with no notion of instantiation.
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Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
– Dijkstra
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scardf -Scala RDF API (Jena façade) @ Google Code →
Easier (?) RDF manipulation, that’s the goal ;-)
(via:late2theparty:)
July 2010
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High-level Best Practices for SCM →
Has some very useful advice for those sailing the SCM boat.
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Does the cloud need Server Virtualization? →
Looks like PAAS is the cloud computing model for the future
May 2010
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Scientist infected with computer virus
(In an experiment to test potential problems with implants)
Read this article
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The year open data went worldwide.
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The proverb ‘owning a hammer doesn’t make one an architect’ is...
– Craig Larman. (Applying UML and Patterns)
April 2010
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Continuation Sandwich
I’ve often come across the word ‘Continuations’ in the programming language discussions but I never made up my mind to investigate what it means. Interestingly while reading up a bit about Ruby I hopped to this delicious description of ‘First-class continuations”:
“Say you’re in the kitchen in front of the refrigerator, thinking about a sandwich. You take...
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Berners-Lee - Socially Aware Cloud Storage and... →
dagoneye:
social networking libero e decentralizzato: questa si che è creatività! “collegare cose note in modi nuovi”
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It’s time to return to the original concept of the Web-based Internet—an...
– A Flock of Twitters: Decentralized Semantic Microblogging (via dagoneye)
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REST or SOAP? →
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Just as we shouldn’t impose hierarchy where it doesn’t belong, we...
– Ted Nelson
March 2010
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Seven Habits of Highly Effective Programmers →
February 2010
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Introducing 'Sign-in withTwitter' →
I especially like the paragraph that talks about the difference between delegated and federated single-sign-on solutions.
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Is the Relational Database Doomed? →
Recently, a lot of new non-relational databases have cropped up both inside and outside the cloud. One key message this sends is, “if you want vast, on-demand scalability, you need a non-relational database”.
Read it…
and then you must also read The dark side of NoSql
January 2010
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Why RDF Ought to make Web Apps easier to build →
December 2009
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Can we do REST without HTTP? →
I am wondering if we can do REST without HTTP!!
I was just thinking about plug-ins for an application that we are developing. Very desirably:
anybody should be able to write a plug-in and
in any language they choose to write.
Thinking about the second point what came to my mind effortlessly was REST but, following that is this question:
Can we do REST without HTTP?
It would be great if my...
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The Open World Assumption: Elephant in the Room →
(via dagoneye)
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I agree to you that Link is both of information conductor and data conductor. An...
– Thinking Space: The Link in Linked Web (via dagoneye)
November 2009
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Generalization or Specialization? Well, it...
(via:jamieforrest)
One of the more difficult tasks in software design is striking a balance between creating a general solution and a more specific one. Should we build something that can handle all sorts of hypothetical future requirements or one that solves a specific problem, but may not work for anything else down the road? Should we take longer and spend more up front but reap dividends down...
October 2009
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Meta Protocol Taxanomy →
This is a very well written technical paper.
A must-read, before making a decision to pick SOAP, CORBA, RMI etc for your use.
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Both Google and Yahoo have been supporting Semantic Web markup (RDFa, RDF and...
– Slashdot Technology Story | The Web of Data, Beyond What Google and Yahoo Show (via dagoneye)
August 2009
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July 2009
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RDF & Multiple inheritance
How does multiple inheritance work in the RDF Schema Language? Just apply the rule twice. If A is subClassOf B and A is also subClassOf C, then any individual x that is a member of A will also be a member of B and of C.
-Morgan Kaufmann (Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist)
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Reification
Making a statement about another statement is called reification
E.g.
Shakespeare wrote Hamlet. (a statement) Shakespeare wrote Hamlet in 1604. Wikipedia states that Shakespeare wrote Hamlet in 1604. Saritha checked Wikipedia, it states that Shakespear wrote Hamlet in 1604.
June 2009
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The word 'Resource'
An excerpt from Morgan Kaufmann’s book ‘Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist’:
In the Semantic Web we refer to the things in the world as resources; a resource can be anything that someone might want to talk about. Shakespeare, Stratford, “the value of X,” and “all the cows in Texas” are all examples of things someone might talk about and that can be resources in the Semantic...
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Although inheritance gets a lot of emphasis while learning OOP, it doesn’t mean...
– Bruce Eckel (Thinking in Java, 3rd Edition)