Monthly Archives: June 2006

Paul Häder is blogging

Posted on June 3, 2006 by Richard Cyganiak

Paul is a friend of mine from school. In 9th grade or so we collaborated on an encryption tool based on, umm, the XOR algorithm, implemented in, umm, PowerBASIC. Hadn’t heard from him for a while – he just said … Continue reading →

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Pérez et al.: Semantics and Complexity of SPARQL

Posted on June 3, 2006 by Richard Cyganiak

Jorge Pérez, Marcelo Arenas, Claudio Gutierrez: Semantics and Complexity of SPARQL (preprint) SPARQL has a dirty little secret: The spec doesn’t define the formal semantics. There is a lot of language to explain how everything is supposed to work, and … Continue reading →

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Game theory, convention, and co-ordination

Posted on June 2, 2006 by Richard Cyganiak

Harry Halpin: In its classic game-theoretic formulation by David Lewis, a language is defined formally but established and used according to convention. A convention is used by a community to solve some co-ordination problem, such as determining how to list … Continue reading →

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Fun with connection properties

Posted on June 2, 2006 by Richard Cyganiak

How to connect to MySQL over JDBC: jdbc:mysql://localhost/mydb?paranoid=true &pedantic=true&ultraDevHack=true Surprisingly, neither pessimistic=true nor patronizing=true work. (MySQL JDBC documentation)

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A Friendlier RDF API for Java

Posted on June 1, 2006 by Richard Cyganiak

Back in January 2005, being annoyed with the verboseness of a certain RDF API for Java, I tried to come up with a friendlier way of manipulating generic RDF from Java. My experiments never went anywhere and I forgot about … Continue reading →

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