Kowari 1.1 is coming soon. Congratulations to the Kowari team, they are through some difficult times and it’s good to see the project moving ahead. I was slightly disappointed by this: The removal of Jena support. Kowari v1.0 implemented a Jena storage backend and included an RDQL query language API. This has caused difficulties in […]
The phone situation is sorted out. I’m proud owner of a Sony Ericsson K750i now. It’s a nice phone. The camera is quite impressive (two megapixels) and will make my cheap Konica-Minolta x31 digicam obsolete. It’s quite cleverly done — you turn the phone by 90 degrees after sliding back the lens cover, and hold it […]
Martin Fowler shows off what you can do with collections and closures in Ruby. I am quite impressed. I already love PHP over Java for its succinctness. Ruby seems to be even better: managers, plebs = employees.partition{|e| e.manager?} The same code in PHP 4 would look like this: foreach ($employees as $employee) { if ($employee->isManager()) […]
Slides: SPARQL and relational databases (PDF, 224k) These are the slides from a short talk I gave two days ago at HP Labs. It’s a rough summary of the work I did there. I will talk more about this stuff as my writeups proceed toward publishing (as HP Labs tech reports).
After five months at HP Labs Bristol I’m now back in Berlin. I’ll be busy for a few days catching up with all the things that have accumulated here, but then a lazy student lifestyle waits to be re-adopted for another couple of months. First I need to sort out the mobile phone situation — […]