Seth Ladd's Blog

Text* Snippets: Add all new files to Subversion [awk] [grep] [svn] [subversion] (tags: subversion )

YouTube - Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us (tags: web2.0 video )

Tom ten Thij's homepage: RSpec plain text story runner on a fresh rails app (tags: rubyonrails testing )

Some thoughts on resources, information resources and representations (tags: semanticweb )

When was the last time you had an unambiguous discussion? In which Roy Fielding asks why the Semantic Web has a requirement that URIs identify a resource unambiguously? I believe the whole attempt to make a distinction between a "document" and a "non-information resource" is just way too complicated for most users. All this business of redirecting the client from the non-information resource to a document that describes the resource seems like a hack. I understand the problem (does the URI refer to the Thing or the Document About The Thing?) and it's complicated. Take the link I used to point you, the loyal reader, to more information about Roy Fielding. I used http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/ which is some home page for Roy. Is that link pointing to The Man or The Home Page? My answer? Both. And the semantic web needs to deal with that unambiguity. As far as I can tell, it can. Since anyone can publish metadata about anything on the web, there's

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How to publish Linked Data on the Web (tags: semanticweb data )

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SOA Facts (tags: humor programming )

Nimble Method: Garbage Collection is Why Ruby on Rails is Slow: Patches to Improve Performance 5x; Memory Profiling Speed up Rails by reducing memory allocation, thus reducing GC time. (tags: rubyonrails )