Archive for January, 2006

SPARQL for PHP

Monday, January 16th, 2006

Announced today: RAP’s new SPARQL package allows you to execute SPARQL queries against RDF graphs and RDF datasets which may be stored in memory or in a relational database. We have also included SPARQL as additional query language into RAP’s NetAPI RDF server, which allows you to query remote RDF repositories using W3C SPARQL […]

The simple joys of tech support

Saturday, January 14th, 2006

Ah, the simple joys of contributing to an open source support mailing list: Hi, RichardI have solved the problem! Everything is working well now.Thank you so much for your help! I am so happy!!!!(^-^) (archived here)

On counting lines of code

Thursday, January 12th, 2006

“If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as lines produced but as lines spent.” —Edsger Dijkstra

Dumping the Mac OS X address book to FOAF

Monday, January 2nd, 2006

This is a half-finished result from the gnowsis workshop. It’s a little AppleScript that dumps some information from the Mac OS X address book to RDF/XML, using the FOAF vocabulary. It’s severely limited: Only full names and email addresses are exported No XML escaping is performed; the names and email addresses ought to be put in CDATA […]