Tim Bray has been learning Ruby for a while and is currently summarizing his experiences as the Ruby Ape Diaries. The latest installment – Surface Phenomena – is particularily interesting as it deals with the area where Ruby really shines: its friendly syntax and high readability.
I finally finished uploading some photos from my recent trip to Italy. It was a visit to Semedia group in Ancona, and a few days in Rome, all during the hottest week of the year. This was my first time in Italy. Needless to say, I had a seriously good time.
Scott Adams: As soon as I pick up a drawing implement, [my cat] systematically goes around my office chewing and scratching one item after another until she finds something that will make me stop work and pet her. I don’t want her to learn what will bother me most, so I try to trick […]
There’s a lovely collection of charts and diagrams doodled on index cards that explain various everyday insights. (via Information Aesthetics)
TopBraid Composer, the commercial Eclipse-based ontology editor developed by Holger Knublauch and colleagues at TopQuadrant, supports D2RQ in its latest release. Holger says: A common request from our customers is the ability to reuse existing (legacy) databases in the context of an RDF/OWL project. The mapping of relational databases into RDF is non-trivial and since […]
David Weinberger has dug up a great clip of Richard Feynman explaining physics and the universe: When you’re thinking about something that you don’t understand, you have a terrible, uncomfortable feeling called confusion. It’s a very difficult and unhappy business. And so, most of the time, you’re rather unhappy, actually, with this confusion. You […]
Maintaining my FOAF file involves a lot of work: I have to write RDF/XML by hand, calculate SHA1 hashes, and enter a lot of information that is already stored in a different place: my address book. That’s why I have created an AppleScript that does all the work for me at the press of a single […]