mnot’s Web log

Design depends largely on constraints.” — Charles Eames

Monday, August 29 2005

sparta.py 0.8

I’m happy to announce that version 0.8 of sparta, a simple API for RDF, is now available. As always, feedback and suggestions are appreciated. This revision requires rdflib 2.2.1,...

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Thursday, August 25 2005

Bubble Fun

It seems that the debate has switched from if there’s a housing bubble to when and where it will pop. “Americans pay for their houses with money they borrowed from...

Wanted: Blogging Fund Manager

Does anybody know of a mutual fund manager who also has a blog? I’d be interested if someone in the financial industry had such a rich channel to their...

Monday, August 15 2005

Advertise on the BBC!

Is it just me, or is this a thinly-veiled press release? I don’t see how Bluetooth is relevant; they might as well point out that it runs on electricity...

Putting History in Your Feed

I’ve had a few e-mails asking how I got this site’s RSS feed to include its history, so here are the instructions for doing it in Moveable Type (the...

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Feed History -03

Draft -03 of Feed History: Enabling Stateful Syndication is now available. Significant changes include: Added fh:archive element, to indicate that an entry is an archive Allow subscription feed to...

Saturday, August 13 2005

Adding Semantics to Excel with Microformats and GRDDL

When I worked in the financial industry, I quickly noticed that Excel spreadsheets contain the bulk of the data in the enterprise. It may make IT execs tear their...

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Wednesday, August 10 2005

Separating the Data Model from its Serialisation

For some time, I’ve noticed that people defining XML formats spend an inordinate amount of time talking about the structure of the format. This is especially apparent in standards...

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Monday, August 8 2005

HTTP Performance (again)

Some folks at IONA have written a paper entitled Where HTTP Fails SOAP. I had a chance to look at this before I got it published, and their conclusions...

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