Paul Ford uses a fictional story from five years in the future to explain the semantic web: August 2009: How Google Beat Amazon and Ebay to the Semantic Web. For more info about the Semantic Web concept: W3C Semantic Web SemanticWeb.Org The Semantic Web: 1-2-3 RDFWeb and FOAF Developer Site I suspect that Paul’s story is ispired by Perhaps Paul’s story inspired some actual events…
Thanks to the efforts of Tantek: a new Technorati design. In the words of Scotty, “It’s…it’s… It’s green!” By rewriting the vast majority of the markup (both from the old Technorati site, and the mockups from AP), I was able to simultaneously reduce the size of the HTML, while significantly increasing its semantic fidelity. The result: I cut the size of Technorati’s home page in half, made it Valid XHTML, with a style sheet that … Continue reading
Nifty tool — get your Google page rank: Via wordlog, via photomatt.
So, after we took the kids to the mall yesterday, we went to the Borders bookstore across the street. Of course, I headed straight for the computer books section. I saw several titles that I’d like to have, but nothing that I just had to have right then. But I did indulge in a little second-hand ego surfing. As I perused the authors of various books, I thought to myself, “He runs WordPress. And so … Continue reading
I’m customizing an install of the Mantis bugtracker for my contract job. We want to modify it to authenticate against our own user database. Fortunately, the Mantis code is pretty well modularized and abstracted, so it shouldn’t be too hard. I’m also going to try to integrate a way to submit new issues by email. My employer has already suggested that when I get that working, I could submit the modifications back to the Mantis … Continue reading
No, the storms didn’t wipe me off the face of the earth. I’ve just been consumed by work. Plus, we had out-of-town relatives visiting last weekend, so some of my “free time” (ha!) got subsumed into my “family time”. Even so, I still haven’t gotten myself into the daily schedule that I really need to be on, as Susan has had to remind me several times lately. I’ve been meaning to get up early enough … Continue reading
As I write this, there is severe weather about to head through my area, including the possibilities of tornadoes. I’ve seen some pretty spectacular lightning strikes in the distance, so I’d better shut my computer down before something bad hap&@~v7#;+rk*
Okay, here’s a question for some of you PHP OOP gurus out there: How can you use the preg_replace_callback() function from inside of a class method? I even tried using create_function() to make a self-contained lambda, but it seemed like it couldn’t access class properties via the $this variable.
In my last post, I mentioned that we were running a little bit late getting to the movie theater. Let me go into a little more detail. See, these events took place on July 4, Independence Day. It’s traditional to have a cookout on Independence Day, right? So we had planned to grill hamburgers, hot dogs, and corn on the gas pit grill that our rental house has in the back yard. The forecast called … Continue reading
Yesterday, Susan and I (and Susan’s parents, as well) saw Spider-Man 2. Awesome movie. I can’t remember the last time I went back to watch a movie in the theater for a second time, but we’re thinking about seeing this one again. Of course I have extra incentive to see it again, because I missed the opening sequence. We were running a few minutes late getting to the theater, but we got seated just as … Continue reading