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R2RML Mapping Language Becomes a Recommendation 2 Oct 2012 | 07:17 pm
a language for expressing customized mappings from relational databases to RDF datasets. Such mappings provide the ability to view existing relational data in the RDF data model, expressed in a struct...
Easing. Google Style. 26 Sep 2012 | 09:19 pm
Last October, Google decided to get back in touch with its minimalistic roots and introduced a fading (also know as easing) behavior on its homepage. When the page was first loaded only three essentia...
Graduate Programs are Broken. Only Your Advisor Can Save You. 26 Sep 2012 | 09:19 pm
Image via Wikipedia It took exactly one semester of graduate school in 2005 for me to realize that pursing a PhD was not going to be the intellectual journey I had hoped it would be. As the semester ...
A Simple Quixote Server 26 Sep 2012 | 09:19 pm
Here is a generic script that can be used to serve any Quixote project as an HTTP or SCGI process. I've found it quite useful when developing multiple Quixote2-based sites because I don't have to worr...
State of Web Sockets 26 Sep 2012 | 09:14 pm
Image via Wikipedia I've been casually following the chatter on the hy-bi list about Web Sockets for the past few months. The specification has reached the final draft stages, but the list is still ...
Math and Creativity. Chocolate and Vanilla. 26 Sep 2012 | 09:14 pm
Many people suffer from a peculiar affliction. They believe that complex problems can have simplistic solutions. Like infomercial products, these solutions are usually too good to be true and there is...
A Simple Experiment with Hookbox 26 Sep 2012 | 09:14 pm
Hookbox is a new Python-based comet server with support for Websockets. It's main features include: Support for named channels on which data is published/subscribed. Server-side Websocket and WSGI s...
Sneak Peek: GAE Channel API 26 Sep 2012 | 09:14 pm
At Google IO 2010, the app engine team announced that they had a Channel API in the works. This week I got invited by Moishe Lettvin of the Channel API team to join a handful of developers to try it o...
Beyond HTML5 26 Sep 2012 | 09:14 pm
Three interesting experiments are going on in the browser community which I would like to highlight: 1. Mozilla Audio API (available in Firefox 4) - A javascript API to access raw audio samples in th...
Google Chrome: The App Store and the OS 26 Sep 2012 | 09:14 pm
Today marks approximately two years since the day Google first announced the Chrome browser. Since then, I have not only been using it as my primary browser but have also been avidly following the dev...
