Monthly Archives: January 2006

SPARQL for PHP

Posted on January 16, 2006 by Richard Cyganiak

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 … Continue reading →

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The simple joys of tech support

Posted on January 14, 2006 by Richard Cyganiak

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)

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On counting lines of code

Posted on January 12, 2006 by Richard Cyganiak

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

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Dumping the Mac OS X address book to FOAF

Posted on January 2, 2006 by Richard Cyganiak

Update: There’s a much improved version. 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 … Continue reading →

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