Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

I’m currently thinking about „metadata in context“, and how to realise this using Topic Maps concepts. It would be very elegant to be able to attach metadata inline, especially for long texts. Here’s a nice Wikipedia sample article linking to people, dates, places, and other subjects. Exactly what I’d love to do, but these links…

Werner Vogels: „The lack of understanding that Web services primarily support the document-exchange contract is one of the root causes for many of the misconceptions about them. […] Web services share none of the distributed object systems’ characteristics. They include no notion of objects, object references, factories, or life cycles. Web services do not feature…

„TMAPI hopes to do for topic maps what SAX and DOM did for XML – provide a single common API which all developers can code to and which means that there applications can be moved from one underlying platform to another with minimum fuss.“ And this is what it looks like.

Robin ‚Roblimo‘ Miller on NewsForge: „Writing software is fascinating, even somewhat addictive. People in the writing business are familiar with the phenomenon of „compulsive writers“ who write not for money but because that’s what they do. […] The free software movement is full of compulsive programmers.“

Ethan Cerami: „A major element of web services is planning for when things go wrong, and propagating error messages back to client applications. However, unlike SOAP, REST-based web services do not have a well-defined convention for returning error messages. In fact, after surveying a number of REST-based web services in the wild, there appear to…

Fascinating – Topic Map Inference rules in tolog: „The parent-of rule parent-of($A, $B) :- { parenthood($B : child, $A : mother, $F : father) | parenthood($B : child, $M : mother, $A : father) }. What this rule says is that A is the parent-of B if A is either the mother or father of…