Monthly Archives: August 2005

Kowari 1.1 coming soon, Jena support removed

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 … Continue reading

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Sony Ericsson K750i

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 — … Continue reading

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Ruby one-liners

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 … Continue reading

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Slides: “SPARQL and relational databases”

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 … Continue reading

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Back in Berlin

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 … Continue reading

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