Talis Blogs—This Week’s Semantic Web
Raw—RDFTree Editor update
Following a fine suggestion from MrJ1971, I’ve uploaded the code I mentioned yesterday to Google Groups svn. To grab it just do:
svn checkout http://rdftree.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ rdftree-read-only
(Warning - it’s a warts and all dump - I think even the Javadoc’s in there. I think build.xml is in /etc)
If you want commit access, let me know.
Raw—RDFTree ‘Crowley’ release
A very buggy & crufty desktop Java-based RDF editor extracted from an old on-pause project (coolest URIs for that are on the Internet Archive at IdeaGraph m’fraid). There’s a photo on Flickr of it looking at it’s best. It also includes half-baked source editing.
I did have it in svn, but for some reason that’s fallen over so it seemed a good opportunity to try out a DVCS. But after spending way too many hours mucking about with Apache config (for Mercurial) I gave up and dumped the lot in a tarball : rdftree.tar.gz
It’ll need a bit of fiddling to get running, but some familiarity with ant should sort that.
I’ve not yet figured out a proper todo list for it, but there are some really obvious bugs, and little bits of functionality that would make it a lot more useful (e.g. pluggable connectors to external stores - in particular I could really use something like this for checking data in store on the Talis Platform. Having a clean RDF tree/table component should be a nice side effect - again see Flickr
To fix it up will need a bit of Swing hoodoo and a passing acquaintance with Jena.
Bounty!
As this is something I want for my own use, I’ll be more than happy to provide anyone that gets the thing shipshape some token pressie - book, CD, DVD (within reason) or even a t-shirt.
In case you hadn’t guessed, the ‘Crowley’ bit is inspired by “Do what thou wilt…”
PS. <a href=”http://hyperdata.org/blog/2008/07/31/rdftree-editor-update/”>moved into svn at Google Code</a>
Talis Blogs—This Week’s Semantic Web
Raw—Where to start…
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Internal mail - 303 in the past week or so (including “ice cream van has arrived”) 
Raw—Getting back to a (new) normal
As Ian kindly explained a few days ago, I recently lost my wife Caroline. She didn’t have much of a Web presence, but at least I can point to some of her photos and Wikipedia entry (grr, with notability under question).
Many thanks to everyone who has expressed their condolences, apologies if it’s a while (or even never) that I respond in person - I’m also a little overwhelmed in the usual sense right now too. I’m feeling ok, coincidentally recently began the process of stopping drinking. I do wish the uppers the doctor prescribed for now were as effective as the downers, but hey, better than nowt.
Anyhow, this situation has prompted me to get on with reviving my personal blog (in a new improved form), this being an interim step. Expect plenty of 404s for a bit.
Flickr—ducktyping
danja. posted a photo:
See also: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_typing
(Photo courtesy Francis Pettitt - he just got two of the cuties)
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Flickr—Mad Professor
danja. posted a photo:
I've accumulated a lot of guitar effects that I don't usually use on the guitar. So I've got some of the more interesting ones hooked up to a cheapo mixer, lots of feedback.
Sometime soon I want to pick up a similarly lo-tech sound source for the things - something a little more interesting than the metronome that's hooked up here ;-)
I just found out Chris Carter's done something very similar (though maybe better planned ;-)
www.flickr.com/photos/chris_carter_/sets/72157602312724060/
Flickr—Caro, Reto, Stefano, Sasha, Basil
danja. posted a photo:
In the yard - Caroline Walters, Reto Bachmann-Gmuer, Stefano Mazzocchi, Sashadog, Basildog
