Monthly Archives: April 2006

Behaviour-Driven Development

Posted on April 14, 2006 by Richard Cyganiak

A new micro-movement in the software development community attempts to reframe test-driven development as behaviour-driven development. This is an attempt to overcome the backwardness of test-first development. If I want to test something, I need to have that something first, … Continue reading →

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A sigh of relief from a million web developers

Posted on April 13, 2006 by Richard Cyganiak

I guess I should pay a bit more attention to the Microsoft side of the world. It took me three weeks to notice that Internet Explorer 7 is available as a beta download. Anybody used it yet? Is it better … Continue reading →

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2006 Jena User Conference schedule

Posted on April 13, 2006 by Richard Cyganiak

The schedule for JUC2006, the Jena User Conference in Bristol (May 10th and 11th) has been finalized and is online. Looks like quite an interesting mix, there’s applications and there’s infrastructure work and there are tutorials and there’s die-hard research. … Continue reading →

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SPARQL/AJAX Javascript library

Posted on April 6, 2006 by Richard Cyganiak

SPARQL JavaScript library This looks very cool. I imagine it takes most of the pain out of doing AJAX over SPARQL.

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Wiki law-making

Posted on April 6, 2006 by Richard Cyganiak

Wikocracy is a wiki where users can edit the text of US laws – the Constitution, the Patriot Act, the DMCA and many others. It’s a fascinating idea. Wikipedia has demonstrated that wikis can be a great way to hammer … Continue reading →

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Apple Boot Camp

Posted on April 6, 2006 by Richard Cyganiak

This one sounds like another late april fool’s joke, but it’s real: Boot Camp is a piece of software from Apple that lets their new Intel-based machines boot into Windows. You have to bring your own Windows CD. Boot Camp … Continue reading →

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Google Romance

Posted on April 6, 2006 by Richard Cyganiak

I somehow managed to miss this one on April 1st … Google Romance — because, “when you think about it, love is just another search problem.” Brilliant. (via AG NBI)

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W3C standardizes AJAX

Posted on April 6, 2006 by Richard Cyganiak

Oh, I didn’t know that W3C has a Web API Working Group, and that they are standardizing the XMLHttpRequest object, the base technology of AJAX. XMLHttpRequest already works pretty much the same across browsers. Nevertheless, an official W3C stamp of … Continue reading →

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Book review: Influence – Science and Practice

Posted on April 5, 2006 by Richard Cyganiak

Sometimes there are lucky coincidences. I tried to find time for writing a review of this extremely fascinating book, which I finished reading a couple of days ago. But today Guy Kawasaki has an interview with the author: There are … Continue reading →

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Semantic Web UFOs

Posted on April 5, 2006 by Richard Cyganiak

On the semantic-web@w3.org list, Harry Halpin makes a good case for why attempts to standardize on a Unified Formal Ontology (UFO), such as Cyc and DOLCE are ill-considered. Harry provides lots of literature. Hard to argue with that. I just … Continue reading →

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