February 27, 2004

Connecting to Fedora's X Server

Connecting to Fedora's X Server

Running Fedora and trying to connect to its X server, only to continue to get a can't open display or cannot connect ot display?

Turns out Fedora has TCP connections to its X server disabled by default. I like how they default to more secure, but isn't that what xhost is for?

I am blogging this so that google can push this link up to the top. Hopefully save someone else the time.

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February 18, 2004

WS-Discovery

Metadata Specifications Index Page

Call me jaded, but here's another attempt to solve the problem of link local discovery. You know, since Jini, JXTA, UPnP, Rendezvous, and others did it so horribly. Oh, I know... their downfall was that they didn't use bloated SOAP! Ah ha! Luckily, we now have a discovery protocol that uses XML and SOAP. Can't wait to try to fit all that XML into a single datagram.

I dig XML. But there might be a better way to ask "Is there a printer here?" than a huge SOAP message.

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January 08, 2004

Bright Future for Mobile Publishing

OJR article: Conference Panelists See Bright Future for Mobile Publishing

Publishing to the Web from your cell phone or other mobile device -- moblogging -- is all the rage with Tokyo’s digerati, and many believe these new mobile publishing tools will eventually bring big changes to journalism and other industries.

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January 06, 2004

List of Blog Search Engines

Ari Paparo Dot Com: Big List of Blog Search Engines

Thus, the Big List of Blog Search Engines.

Following are all the blog search engines, directories, and web-based RSS aggregators I could find, along with brief instructions on getting your site listed. I'm sure I missed something so use the 'comments' for any updates.

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January 02, 2004

2003 Google Zeitgeist

Google Press Center: 2003 Year-End Zeitgeist

The 2003 Year-End Zeitgeist offers a unique perspective on the year's major events and hottest trends based on more than 55 billion searches conducted over the past year by Google users from around the world. Whether you are tracking the global progression of the latest news or learning about healthy searches in Japan, the 2003 Year-End Zeitgeist enables you to look at the past year through the collective eyes of the world on the Internet.

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December 30, 2003

Matz on Craftmanship

Matz on Craftsmanship

Programmers can get a lot of benefit from reading source code. You can't simply tell people how to be good programmers. You can offer them some principles of good programming. You can describe some good design experiences you've had. But you can't give them a real knowledge of how to be a good programmer. I believe the best way for that knowledge to be obtained is by reading code. Writing code can certainly help people become good programmers, but reading good code is much better.

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December 25, 2003

Linux 2.6 Scheduler

Ars Technica: Linux.Ars (12/24/2003)

Welcome to this week's edition of Linux.Ars. Today we feature a detailed description of one of the most important parts of the newly-released Linux 2.6 kernel: the scheduler. The new scheduler features several improvements over that in 2.4; we will not only explain the improvements, but also describe how the scheduler works and why these improvements are important.

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December 22, 2003

World of Ends

World of Ends

Fortunately, the true nature of the Internet isn't hard to understand. In fact, just a fistful of statements stands between Repetitive Mistake Syndrome and Enlightenment...

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Quit Slashdot

Quit Slashdot.org Today!

Welcome to the home of the Quit Slashdot movement.

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December 18, 2003

Wonderful World of Linux 2.6

Wonderful World of Linux 2.6 - Joe Pranevich

Although it seems like only yesterday that we were booting up our first Linux 2.4 systems, time has ticked by and the kernel development team has just released the 2.6 kernel to the public. This document is intended as a general overview of the features in the new kernel release, with a heavy bias toward i386 Linux. Please also be aware that some of the "new" features discussed here may have been back-ported to Linux 2.4 after first appearing in Linux 2.6, either officially or by a distribution vendor. I have also included information on a handful of cases where a new feature originated during the maintenance cycle of Linux 2.4, and those will be marked as appropriate in the text.

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December 17, 2003

Atom Project

FrontPage - Atom Wiki

We're writing specifications for syndicating, archiving and editing episodic web sites.

RSS is SOOOOO last week.

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December 04, 2003

JXTA P2P Sockets

ONJava.com: Introduction to the Peer-to-Peer Sockets Project [Dec. 03, 2003]

By the end of this article, you will understand the motivation and need for the P2P Sockets package, how to configure and set up the P2P Socket libraries to run on your system, how to create and run P2P server and client sockets, how to work with the P2P InetAddressclass, and security issues and limitations in the framework.

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ApacheCon 2003 Roundup

O'Reilly Network: one more post about ApacheCon 2003 [Dec. 02, 2003]

i got the opportunity to attend ApacheCon 2003 in Las Vegas (Vegas baby! ) two weeks ago. i thought i'd blog my notes so that you could get a feel for what was presented and how it was received. given BEA's growing commitment to open-source and Apache, i was looking forward to an interesting conference (and i wasn't disappointed). oh, there's also an official conference wiki you can check out too

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December 02, 2003

GNU libavl - binary tree implementation

Ben Pfaff: GNU libavl

Binary search trees provide O(lg n) performance on average for important operations such as item insertion, deletion, and search operations. Balanced trees provide O(lg n) even in the worst case.

GNU libavl is the most complete, well-documented collection of binary search tree and balanced tree library routines anywhere.

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November 30, 2003

Can Google Grow Up?

Fortune.com - Technology - Can Google Grow Up?

When the numbers pertain to Google, they look very, very good. In 18 months the company has quadrupled in size, now employing more than 1,300 people. Annualized revenues have sextupled, to about $900 million. Annualized pretax profits have grown by a factor of 23, to about $350 million, according to a handful of people who have been told the figures. Only a few high-tech companies in history, like Apple, Compaq, Sun, and more recently Amazon.com, have generated that kind of revenue growth so fast. None has made as much money doing it—not even Netscape, which grew faster than Google has but made money in only one of its years.

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November 27, 2003

Wireless Internet Options

Wireless Internet access through cellular/PCS networks

Wireless Internet access through the cellular/PCS networks

For U.S. markets.

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November 26, 2003

Installing Oracle on SuSE

SuSE mailinglist: Re: [suse-oracle] 9.2 iAS installation fails on linking $ORACLE_HOME/precomp/lib/ins_precomp.mk

Installing Oracle on SuSE tricks. It's like giving birth to a demon.

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November 18, 2003

National Information Consortium

NIC Inc. - The People Behind eGovernment

Need to build eGovernment services?
Partner with NIC to enhance how your government does business.

My new company!

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November 13, 2003

eGovernment and Open Source Blog

Open Source in Government

Run by Todd Ogasawara, the eGovernment Team Leader for the State of Hawaii (my home state).

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November 11, 2003

Microsoft Wallop

Wired News: Will Microsoft Wallop Friendster?

Speculation about Wallop began immediately following the company's low-key announcement at last month's Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles that it was working on a tool that incorporates blogging and social-networking capabilities. Some observers surmised it was a blogging tool for the 2006 launch of Microsoft's Longhorn operating system. Others suggested it was knowledge-management software, à la Lotus Notes, slated for the second quarter of 2004.

Microsoft attempts to build social networking tools into their new operating system.

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November 10, 2003

Politics1 News Blog

Politics1 - News Blog

Coverage of American politics, especially Presidential Race 2004.

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November 05, 2003

Google Indexing IRC?

Cocoon: Internet Glue: Google Crawling IRC?

Google has been placing bots in IRC channels. Google rocks.

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November 04, 2003

CSS House

CSS House (3D Border Demo 2) by Chris Hester

CSS House

A whole house built in only CSS. Of course, barfs on IE.

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October 31, 2003

Great Pumpkin Carvings

Great pumpkin carvings.

Posted by sethladd at 12:56 PM | TrackBack

October 30, 2003

Country and US States in SQL

Country Name and ISO 3166 Code MySQL Import File

Country Name and ISO 3166 Code MySQL Import File

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The iPim

O'Reilly Network: The inter-personal information manager (iPim) [Oct. 28, 2003]

This iPim has seven key functions: search, save, organize, share, publish, play and transact.

I love software like this. Maybe it's a pipe dream, but these are worthy goals

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July 28, 2003

Tim O'Reilly Interview

stage4 - Tim O'Reilly interview: Digital Rights Management is a Non-starter

Tim O'Reilly interview: Digital Rights Management is a Non-starter.

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May 08, 2003

Hackers and Painters

Hackers and Painters

Now on the required reading list.

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April 25, 2003

Swarms and Mobs at This Year's ETech

OpenP2P.com: Swarms and Mobs at This Year's ETech [Apr. 25, 2003]

Some thoughts from presentations and experiences from
O'Reilly's Emerging Technology Conference.

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April 13, 2003

Plone CMS

plone.org - Welcome to plone.org

Just something I've got to check out in a bit.

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April 09, 2003

XP User Stories

User Stories

User Stories in eXtreme Programming.

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April 05, 2003

Too True

Migrating to Linux not easy for Windows users - April 4, 2003

Bow down to my SUPERIOR LUNIX!

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April 04, 2003

Hydra


Hydra

Multi user text editing through rendezvous. Very cool for pair programming.

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Safari Bookmarklets Working

Antipixel | Blog | Help with Bookmarklets

How to get bookmarklets working in Safari. Props to CEO for showing me the light.

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March 13, 2003

64 bit Computing

Introduction to 64 bit Computing

Arstechnica has a good overview of 64 bit computing in an x86 world.

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February 27, 2003

Linux and Business

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/toc/03_09/B382203linux.htm

BusinessWeek takes a look at Linux.

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February 22, 2003

New Version of MovableType

MovableType is up to 2.62. I hope it's easy to upgrade.

Posted by sethladd at 09:47 PM | TrackBack

February 13, 2003

XFree86 Font De-uglification HOWTO

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/FDU/

In the never ending battle to make X purdy.

Posted by sethladd at 12:53 PM | Comments (0)

February 12, 2003

W3C ACL System

http://www.w3.org/2001/04/20-ACLs

This document describes the ACL storage and query mechanisms used by W3C, as well as the availability and use of this data on the semantic web.

Posted by sethladd at 05:06 PM | Comments (0)

XML 2002 Conference Proceedings

http://www.idealliance.org/papers/xml02/dx_xml02/index.html

Papers from the XML 2002 conference.

Posted by sethladd at 04:59 PM | Comments (0)

Fabulous fonts in Linux

http://theregus.com/content/4/26770.html

One of the more common disappointments reported about the Linux GUI is clunky fonts under X. While it's true that they can look pretty rough out of the box, it's also true that sharpening them up is easy and well worth the effort, thanks to MS TrueType fonts and the open-source FreeType project which makes them useable on Linux.

Posted by sethladd at 04:52 PM | Comments (0)

Branching Patterns for Parallel Software Development

http://www.enteract.com/~bradapp/acme/branching/scm-pats-intro.html#SCM_PatsIntro

The approach an organization takes to Software Configuration Management (SCM) can significantly affect the quality and timeliness with which a software product is developed. By SCM, we essentially mean the process of identifying, organizing, controlling, and tracking both the decomposition and recomposition of: software system structure, functionality, evolution, and teamwork.

Posted by sethladd at 04:46 PM | Comments (0)

February 10, 2003

Samizdat

http://www.nongnu.org/samizdat/

Samizdat is a generic RDF-based engine for building collaboration and open publishing web sites. Samizdat builds its underlying data model on RDF (Resource Description Framework), and defines a schema of resource classes and properties for core concepts of a Samizdat site: member, message, thread, tag, proposition, vote, version, part, and so on (see Concepts document).

Posted by sethladd at 10:25 PM | Comments (0)

February 06, 2003

Become Your Own CA

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/02/06/linuxhacks.html

Become your own Certificate Authority, and sign your own - or others' - SSL certificates.

Posted by sethladd at 09:16 PM | Comments (0)

Top 10 Web App Vulnerabilities

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,863414,00.asp

The Open Web Application Security Project, a collaborative security education site, has released a list of the top 10 vulnerabilities in Web applications. The list, at www.owasp.org, is clearly written and full of real problems—with a variety of matching solutions. Here's the vulnerabilities list followed by eWEEK Labs' recommendations.

Posted by sethladd at 12:34 PM | Comments (0)

February 05, 2003

Exception Handling Rules

http://euphrates.brivo.net/pipermail/developer/2003-February/008222.html

Some rules to consider when handling exceptions in Java.

Posted by sethladd at 11:38 AM | Comments (0)

JGraph

http://jgraph.sourceforge.net/

Graph visualization and manipulation as a Swing component.

Posted by sethladd at 10:01 AM | Comments (0)

February 04, 2003

Forward chaining reasoning

http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/users/christ/crs/sai/lec11.html

Short little explanation w/ Java example code. Plop RDF on top and we're rolling.

Posted by sethladd at 11:43 PM | Comments (0)

Commercial Inference Engine

http://www.networkinference.com/

Great quote from homepage: "Semantic differences, remain the primary roadblock to smooth application integration, one which Web Services alone won't overcome. Until someone finds a way for applications to understand each other, the effect of Web services technology will be fairly limited. When I pass customer data across [the Web] in a certain format using a Web Services interface, the receiving program has to know what that format is. You have to agree on what the business objects look like. And no one has come up with a feasible way to work that out yet -- not Oracle, and not its competitors..." -- Larry Ellison

Posted by sethladd at 10:42 PM | Comments (0)

Survey of RDF Query and Storage Systems

http://139.91.183.30:9090/RDF/publications/tr308.pdf

PDF giving overview of different RDF query solutions. From April 2002.

Posted by sethladd at 01:03 PM | Comments (0)

RDF Query and Rule Use Cases and Examples

http://rdfstore.sourceforge.net/2002/06/24/rdf-query/

Lots of use cases and examples of their solution in many different RDF query languages.

Posted by sethladd at 01:01 PM | Comments (0)

RDQL Grammar

http://www.hpl.hp.com/semweb/rdql-grammar.html

The BNF for the grammar for RDQL, the RDF Query Language.

Posted by sethladd at 12:54 PM | Comments (0)

SemWeb in Science

http://www.mindswap.org/Science/

Use the Full Text link to get at the whole article.

Posted by sethladd at 12:40 PM | Comments (0)

So the question now becomes should we spend the rest of the time setting this up or finishing the code we wrote?

http://ejbca.sourceforge.net/index.htm

J2EE Certificate Authority.

Posted by sethladd at 10:35 AM | Comments (0)

February 03, 2003

http://java.sun.com/j2ee/ecperf/

http://java.sun.com/j2ee/ecperf/

Posted by sethladd at 02:26 PM | Comments (0)

Introduction to Algorithms, Second Edition

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0262032937/ref=pd_bxgy_img_2/103-7216120-6315827?v=glance&s=books

The bible for data structures an Algs.

Posted by sethladd at 11:15 AM | Comments (0)

Deep Linking in the WWW

http://www.textuality.com/tag/DeepLinking2.html

This document is designed to provide input to this discussion based on the architecture of the underlying technology.

Posted by sethladd at 10:42 AM | Comments (0)

January 31, 2003

Making your linux fonts look sharper

http://people.redhat.com/~mgalgoci/fonts/fixing-2.html

Posted by sethladd at 11:20 AM | Comments (0)

January 30, 2003

Semantic Web Trust and Security Resource Guide

http://www.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/suhl/bizer/SWTSGuide/index.htm

The security, trust and privacy issues that arise from the vision of the Semantic Web as a global information integration environment are mainly unsolved or even unrecognized. This resource guide collects papers, ontologies, schemata and standards that could be building blocks for a future Semantic Web Trust and Security Framework.

Posted by sethladd at 09:38 PM | Comments (0)

Java Remote Debugging

http://euphrates.brivo.net/pipermail/developer/2003-January/008216.html

On how to connect a remote debugger to a java process, from Adrian.

Posted by sethladd at 10:28 AM | Comments (0)

Northern Viginia Software Symposium

http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/2003-03-northva/index.jsp

If you have been looking for a software conference that focuses on the practical technical aspects of the J2EE, XML, Web Services, Agile Methodologies, Open Source and Best Practices, then you have found it here.

Posted by sethladd at 09:40 AM | Comments (0)

January 29, 2003

JSWAT

http://www.bluemarsh.com/java/jswat/

A standalone debugger....

Posted by sethladd at 03:31 PM | Comments (0)

Now we know who to pray to when the proverbial shit hits the fan

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58076-2003Jan28.html

Posted by sethladd at 11:31 AM | Comments (0)

January 28, 2003

Modeling One-To-Many Relationships With XML

http://www.developer.com/xml/article.php/10929_1575731_1

In this article, we'll discuss some options for implementing one-to-many relationships in XML. We'll consider three different techniques: Containment relationship, Intra-document relationships, Inter-document relationships.

Posted by sethladd at 07:47 PM | Comments (0)

January 27, 2003

Practical RDF Chapters Up

http://rdf.burningbird.net/

The chapters for the book are now up for review. In OpenOffice format.

Posted by sethladd at 10:06 AM | Comments (0)

Mapping Semantic Web Data with RDBMSes

http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/reports/scalable_rdbms_mapping_report/

A public report on mapping triple stores and RDBMS concentrating on surveying the schemas used and discussing mapping approaches to and from relational schemas. It describes current best practice for using such systems for Semantic Web data including feature comparisons, recommendations for particular applications and advice on tradeoffs.

Posted by sethladd at 09:44 AM | Comments (0)

January 24, 2003

Video on Linux

http://www.jwz.org/doc/linuxvideo.html

Oh, the fun continues. From Justin: "I am using Da SooPer1oR LUn1X! Thus, all media types are beyond my grasps."

Posted by sethladd at 01:57 PM | Comments (0)

802_11g

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/wireless/2003/01/23/80211g.html

Move over, 802.11b. It's 54Mbps and backwards compatible.

Posted by sethladd at 11:39 AM | Comments (0)

Metacrap

http://www.well.com/%7Edoctorow/metacrap.htm

Putting the torch to seven straw-men of the meta-utopia.

Posted by sethladd at 11:35 AM | Comments (0)

Describing and retrieving photos using RDF and HTTP

http://www.w3.org/TR/photo-rdf/

This note describes a project for describing & retrieving (digitized) photos with (RDF) metadata. It describes the RDF schemas, a data-entry program for quickly entering metadata for large numbers of photos, a way to serve the photos and the metadata over HTTP, and some suggestions for search methods to retrieve photos based on their descriptions.

Posted by sethladd at 10:07 AM | Comments (0)

January 23, 2003

EJB Inheritance

http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2002/09/04/ejbinherit.html?page=1

The holy grail.

Posted by sethladd at 11:18 PM | Comments (0)

Convert ints to byte arrays in Java

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Programming/Programming_Languages/Java/Q_20273040.html

The last example is my favorite way.

Posted by sethladd at 04:19 PM | Comments (0)

Jetty SSL woes

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jetty-support/message/5047

..

Posted by sethladd at 11:15 AM | Comments (0)

What do HTTP URIs Identify?

http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/HTTP-URI.html

However, the lack of very concise logical definition of such things had not been a problem, until the formal systems started to use them. There were no formal systems addressing this sort of issue (as far as I know, except for Dan Connolly's Larch work [@@]), until the Semantic Web introduced languages such as RDF which have well-defined logical properties and are used to describe (among other things) web operations.

Posted by sethladd at 09:33 AM | Comments (0)

January 22, 2003

State of the Union

http://fuckitall.com/bsh/#

.. Not Good

Posted by sethladd at 12:02 PM | Comments (0)

3D printer anyone?

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993238

Posted by sethladd at 09:44 AM | Comments (0)

January 21, 2003

IBM aims to get smart about AI

http://news.com.com/2100-1001-981256.html

The theory underlying UIMA is the Combination Hypothesis, which states that statistical machine learning--the sort of data-ranking intelligence behind search site Google--syntactical artificial intelligence, and other techniques can be married in the relatively near future.

Posted by sethladd at 08:33 PM | Comments (0)

Redhat Linux vs Redhat Advanced Server

http://www.redhat.com/mktg/utb/011403_which_rhl.html

Chart outlining the difference between the two.

Posted by sethladd at 04:28 PM | Comments (0)

Jboss 3_0_5 CHANGELOG

http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=129789

Posted by sethladd at 12:58 PM | Comments (0)

RDF Query Systems

http://www.w3.org/2001/11/13-RDF-Query-Rules/

Document is intended to provide an understanding of the concepts and issues related to querying semantic web data.

Posted by sethladd at 09:46 AM | Comments (0)

January 20, 2003

Calculate Processor Usage

http://monsters.org/pipermail/spong/2000-March/000415.html

How to calculate processor usage on Linux.

Posted by sethladd at 04:56 PM | Comments (0)

Free World Dialup

http://www.freeworldialup.com/

Using broadband for free telephone communications.

Posted by sethladd at 11:35 AM | Comments (0)

January 17, 2003

Voter News Service: What Went Wrong?

http://www.baselinemag.com/article2/0,3959,826676,00.asp

After two humiliating technology failures, six major news services are disbanding VNS, a consortium formed to count votes and conduct Election Day surveys. How could the system have been overhauled before disaster struck twice?

Posted by sethladd at 10:50 AM | Comments (0)

RDF and XPath

http://home.attbi.com/~eggbertsearle/jaxen.html

Using Jaxen (java xpath engine) and Jena (java rdf engine) to perform xpath queries on an RDF model. There are some queries it can't perform, but is a cool way to get info out of a RDF model using existing technologies.

Posted by sethladd at 09:35 AM | Comments (0)

FOAFNaut

http://jibbering.com/foaf/foafnaut.4.svg?sha1=65b983bb397fb71849da910996741752ace8369b

RDF visualization in SVG. Can visualize foaf models.

Posted by sethladd at 09:30 AM | Comments (0)

January 16, 2003

jWebUnit

http://jwebunit.sourceforge.net/

Makes testing webapps much easier than native JUnit/HttpUnit. It's a layer above those two. So easy, in fact, that I bet QA could write scripts that can parsed into code that gets generated and run. Speaking of, I bet someone has already done this.

Posted by sethladd at 04:50 PM | Comments (0)

Sun ONE Identity Server

http://wwws.sun.com/software/products/identity_srvr/home_identity.html

Sun[tm] ONE Identity Server 6.0 software is a standards-based product designed to help organizations manage secure access to Web and non Web-based applications both on the intranet and extranet.

Posted by sethladd at 01:58 PM | Comments (0)

Liberty Alliance

http://www.projectliberty.org/

The mission of the Liberty Alliance Project is to establish an open standard for federated network identity through open technical specifications.

Posted by sethladd at 01:56 PM | Comments (0)

eXtensible Access Control Markup Language

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xacml/index.shtml

From OASIS. XACML is an XML schema for representing authorization and entitlement policies. However, it is important to note that a compliant Policy Decision Point (PDP) may choose an entirely different representation for its internal evaluation and decision-making processes. That is, it is entirely permissible for XACML to be regarded simply as a policy interchange format, with any given implementation translating the XACML policy to its own local/native/proprietary/alternate policy language sometime prior to evaluation. XACML is expected to address fine grained control of authorized activities, the effect of characteristics of the access requestor, the protocol over which the request is made, authorization based on classes of activities, and content introspection (i.e. authorization based on both the requestor and potentially attribute values within the target where the values of the attributes may not be known to the policy writer). XACML is also expected to suggest a policy authorization model to guide implementers of the authorization mechanism.

Posted by sethladd at 01:09 PM | Comments (0)

http://192.168.192.193/twiki/bin/view/Firmware/HardWareSchematics ..and hardware schematics too!

http://192.168.192.193/twiki/bin/view/Firmware/HardWareSchematics

..and hardware schematics too!

Posted by sethladd at 12:29 PM | Comments (0)

What I've been doing this week

http://192.168.192.193/twiki/bin/view/Firmware/StateMachineSequenceDiagrams

..

Posted by sethladd at 11:49 AM | Comments (0)

Customized EJB security in JBoss

http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-02-2002/jw-0215-ejbsecurity.html

Separate your security policy from your business logic.

Posted by sethladd at 11:18 AM | Comments (0)

Latent Semantic Indexing

http://javelina.cet.middlebury.edu/lsa/out/lsa_intro.htm

Promising technique for search engines. "Regular keyword searches approach a document collection with a kind of accountant mentality: a document contains a given word or it doesn't, with no middle ground. Latent semantic indexing adds an important step to the document indexing process. In addition to recording which keywords a document contains, the method examines the document collection as a whole, to see which other documents contain some of those same words. LSI considers documents that have many words in common to be semantically close, and ones with few words in common to be semantically distant."

Posted by sethladd at 09:43 AM | Comments (0)

Semantic Search Engine for Movable Type

http://www.idlewords.com/movable_type.htm

Just a beta/demo right now.

Posted by sethladd at 09:33 AM | Comments (0)

January 15, 2003

Inference in First Order Logic

http://sern.ucalgary.ca/courses/CPSC/533/W99/presentations/L1_9A_Chow_Low/main.html

The process of deducing new conclusions from facts already known.

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January 14, 2003

"Using computers was not much of an alternative

http://www.baselinemag.com/article2/0,3959,826676,00.asp

News organizations and other VNS subscribers were repeatedly instructed to log off their machines, so the new servers running BEA Systems' WebLogic application server could be rebooted. ". Yeah, we know how that goes. Should've used JBoss...

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January 13, 2003

Semantic Web in Haiku

http://infomesh.net/2002/swhaiku/

The Semantic Web, takes up many syllables, but I struggle on.

Posted by sethladd at 09:31 PM | Comments (0)

First-Order Predicate Logic

http://www.rbjones.com/rbjpub/logic/log019.htm

First-order logic permits reasoning about the propositional connectives (as in propositional logic) and also about quantification ("all" or "some"). RDF is, if I'm not mistaken (and I'm going down a path I've only begun to study) a FOPL language.

Posted by sethladd at 09:26 PM | Comments (0)

This is probably the easiest to use UML tool I've seen yet

http://uml.sourceforge.net/

I bet it would work really well for use case and action diagrams. It will automatically generate class stubs in Java from diagrams, but unfortunately it only does it in reverse in C++.

Posted by sethladd at 03:53 PM | Comments (0)

Outsider's Guide to the W3C

http://simonstl.com/articles/civilw3c.htm

FAQ on the W3C as an organization.

Posted by sethladd at 09:46 AM | Comments (0)

RESTLog

http://wellformedweb.org/news/2

RESTLog is a weblog application that tries to follow the REST architectural style. The application is completely defined by its interface and that interface in turn is completely described by HTTP transactions, the defined set of URLs, and the format of the XML files that are transferred.

Posted by sethladd at 09:38 AM | Comments (0)

January 10, 2003

How To Compare Uniform Resource Identifiers

http://www.textuality.com/tag/uri-comp-2.html

This document discusses issues concerning the comparison of Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) and documents common practice.

Posted by sethladd at 04:48 PM | Comments (0)

Version Control with CVS on Mac OS X

http://developer.apple.com/internet/macosx/cvsoverview.html

Posted by sethladd at 03:29 PM | Comments (0)

RDF Reification

http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-primer/#reification

That's right. We use reification, and we're not afraid to say it!

Posted by sethladd at 03:03 PM | Comments (0)

Annozilla

http://annozilla.mozdev.org/

View and create annotations associated with a web page, as defined by the Annotea project.

Posted by sethladd at 02:00 PM | Comments (0)

RDF Annotations

http://www.w3.org/2001/Annotea/

"By annotations we mean comments, notes, explanations, or other types of external remarks that can be attached to any Web document or a selected part of the document without actually needing to touch the document. When the user gets the document he or she can also load the annotations attached to it from a selected annotation server or several servers and see what his peer group thinks."

Posted by sethladd at 01:52 PM | Comments (0)

Kannel is an open source WAP gateway

http://www.kannel.org/

It attempts to provide this essential part of the WAP infrastructure freely to everyone so that the market potential for WAP services, both from wireless operators and specialized service providers, will be realized as efficiently as possible.Kannel also works as an SMS gateway for GSM networks. Almost all GSM phones can send and receive SMS messages, so this is a way to serve many more clients than just those using a new WAP phone.

Posted by sethladd at 12:11 PM | Comments (0)

Server + JSP Tests

http://jakarta.apache.org/watchdog/index.html

Test conformance of your servlet or jsp container.

Posted by sethladd at 10:31 AM | Comments (0)

The Game Machine

http://www.alienware.com/main/system_pages/area51-t9.asp

Ooooh I want it!

Posted by sethladd at 09:56 AM | Comments (1)

RDFIG Geo vocab workspace

http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/

Featuring a WGS84 Geo Positioning RDF vocabulary.

Posted by sethladd at 09:49 AM | Comments (0)

January 09, 2003

Instant Python

http://www.hetland.org/python/instant-python.php

Time to learn about Python, in 10 quick minutes. Pretty slick little language. Popular in the semweb crowd.

Posted by sethladd at 10:41 PM | Comments (0)

Adam's New Girlfriend

http://www.apple.com/powerbook/index17.html

drool....

Posted by sethladd at 12:46 PM | Comments (0)

Juliet

http://infotectonica.com/juliet/

A really neat java source browsing tool.

Posted by sethladd at 10:57 AM | Comments (0)

RDF for "Little Languages"

http://www.ninebynine.org/RDFNotes/RDFForLittleLanguages.htm

This note describes an experimental software development in which RDF/N3 is used to code query and report generation functions performed on RDF data.

Posted by sethladd at 10:10 AM | Comments (0)

January 08, 2003

Apps on the edge

http://www.infoworld.com/articles/fe/xml/02/05/27/020527feedgetci.xml

WILL MISSION-CRITICAL enterprise business logic someday reside on distributed application infrastructures rather than in corporate datacenters and thus span the globe to deliver improved performance? A recent flurry of announcements has put a spotlight on "edge computing" as the newest entrant in the race toward distributed computing, alongside grid computing, peer-to-peer architectures, and Web services. Microsoft and IBM have recently announced deals with companies such as Akamai and Exodus to distribute .Net and J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition) edge servers and related infrastructure software to hundreds of POPs (points of presence) worldwide, and are planning to launch edge application delivery services as early as this fall. Other CDNs (content delivery networks) such as Mirror Image, Volera, and InfoLibria are building out distributed POPs with J2EE and .Net capabilities and are planning to market their networks as value-added edge delivery platforms for Web services.

Posted by sethladd at 05:21 PM | Comments (0)

Interesting whitepaper on using tuplespaces for a distributed pki system

http://projects.anr.mcnc.org/Yalta/discex3/

Or something.

Posted by sethladd at 04:49 PM | Comments (0)

CWM - Closed World Machine

http://infomesh.net/2001/cwm/

Popular semantic web program, written in Python, that sucks in RDF/XML, N3, and NTriples. It has a slick inference engine.

Posted by sethladd at 01:57 PM | Comments (0)

RDF Validator

http://www.w3.org/RDF/Validator/

Draws pretty graph and displays triples.

Posted by sethladd at 09:57 AM | Comments (0)

Frameworks for Security and Trust Standards

http://www.ninebynine.org/SWAD-E/Security-formats.html

"Looking forward, we aim to develop ontologies, RDF vocabularies and rules for making trust assessments based on existing security standards and other available information, and use these to demonstrate ways to improve security and dependability in open networked systems."

Posted by sethladd at 09:43 AM | Comments (0)

January 07, 2003

How to Make Money from Videogames in the Comfort of Your Own Home

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/1/6/222558/0630

Posted by sethladd at 04:02 PM | Comments (0)

Trust and the Semantic Web

http://www.mindswap.org/~golbeck/web/trust.shtml

Some work with foaf to set up a web of trust.

Posted by sethladd at 04:01 PM | Comments (0)

Writing JSP in XML

http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2001/11/28/jsp_xml.html

From our friends at O'Reilly.

Posted by sethladd at 03:36 PM | Comments (0)

JSP in XML

http://www.javaranch.com/newsletter/Feb2002/xmljsp.html

Posted by sethladd at 03:19 PM | Comments (1)

a very funny site

http://www.memepool.com

Posted by sethladd at 12:08 PM | Comments (0)

Brivo Systems homepage.

http://www.brivo.com

Posted by sethladd at 11:24 AM | Comments (0)

First Post

First Post!

Posted by sethladd at 11:15 AM | Comments (0)