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I’ve just been to XTech 2008 in Dublin, a great conference covering web development, open source, Web 2.0 and open standards. One of the main themes that emerged was that the semantic web is already here if you know where to look - it’s appearing in parallel with the existing web, with RDFa and microformats like hCard and XFN embedded in pages. Ontologies like SIOC and FOAF are enabling semantically-rich data to be moved from one system to another, and standards like OpenId and OAuth are makin

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My XTech Presentation Slides ODP and PDF

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Profitez du format RSS pour suivre vos séries TV avec mytvrss ! Les meilleures blagues en rapport avec la programmation. Si vous ne comprenez pas, ne vous inquiétez pas, vous êtes un être humain sain et normal… Défoulez-vous sur ces têtes à claques ! Ils le méritent quasiment tous ! (certains plus que d’autres, par contre) Un wiki pour les travailleurs du Web ! oEmbed : un format révutionnaire pour représenter une version embarquée d’une URL. J’ai hâte de tester ça sur un projet. UFC84 : un aut

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Stories like this one from David Megginson are becoming increasingly common. Be in no doubt : Ubuntu is an extremely capable and robust system that can give Windows/OS-X systems a run for their money in most laptop/desktop environments. I'm just back from XTech 2008 and looking around the rooms at the conference, I suspect straight up Windows laptops represented

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Linkfest NASA workshop on massively parallel supercomputers Aviary - I am out of accounts, but this is sweet NY Times - Pursuing the next level of AI McKinsey surveys the new software landscape Yahoo Design Pattern library hackystat - “A framework for collection, analysis, visualization, interpretation, annotation, and dissemination of software development process and product data” From the NY Times’ brilliant OSS blog - dbslayer (github repository) Erlang vs. MPI Multimedia & Present

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I enjoyed being back in Ireland. Jessica and I arrived into Dublin last Saturday but went straight from the airport to the train station so that we could spend the weekend in my hometown seeing family and friends. Said town was somewhat overwhelmed by the arrival of one of the largest cruise ships in the world. We were back in Dublin in plenty of time for the start of this year’s XTech conference. A good time was had by the übergeeks gathered in the salubrious surroundings of a newly-opened ho

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Thanks to Jeremy Keith for this great on-the-fly reportage of my talk at XTech yesterday : Orangutans, Oxen and Ogham Stones

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XTech 2008 was great. I’ve not had a chance to go through my notes yet and mull things over, but there were a few big tech trends (especially XMPP and distributed messaging and linked data and resource discovery/disambiguation) which are going to have an impact on what us scientists do. More on them soon! In the meanwhile here’s the slide deck from my talk; | View | Upload your own Thanks to everyone who came along! It went pretty well, and the audience were very kind. (Unfortunately, Slides

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In the last few years, I've been making a very conscious effort to attend and speak at a variety of conferences both within the Flash world and in the greater world of web development, web standards, and open source. This has meant that in the last year or so alone, I got to opportunity to present to plethora of different audiences at conferences as diverse as MacWorld, Wizards of OS, Flash on the Beach, and d.construct. XTech, however, was very different to any of my previous conference experi

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"A great presentation by Brendan Quinn and Ben Smith from the BBC showed how they are dealing with some of these issues. ...we ..all have similar strategies for solving these problems."

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Tango? Tango?! Trinity College students missing out on the joys of revision enjoyed by their Cantab cousins at this time of year...

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This was the third shot from the middle of a street. When I looked up, I realised a car had been waiting for me all the time. I thought this was exceptional patience, until I experienced Dublin traffic first hand....

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Turk's Head Chop House. On the edge of temple bar.

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The Liffey by still night.

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Back bar at the Radisson

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And the winner is...

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It is said that they are drawn to sources of power

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Andrew getting ready to give 'em hell

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Sean McGrath, about to get all zen on us.

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Sean McGrath's Keynote at xtech, liveblogged by Jeremy Keith. "There is no such thing as a document. All there is HTTP"

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Once we see the cow, we cannot unsee it. see also http://adactio.com/journal/1469/

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Sean McGrath is delivering the closing keynote at XTech 2008. Sean would like to reach inside and mess with our heads today. He plans to modify our brain structures, talking about the movable Web. Even though Sean has been doing tech stuff for a long time he freely admits that he doesn’t know what the Web is. He quotes Dylan: I was so much older then, I’m so much younger now. Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs is a book by Nicklaus Wirth from 1978. Anyone remember Pascal? Sean went to

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I’ve been terrible about uploading my talks this year. So here are the Advanced OAuth Wrangling slides from my talk today. (even though I really want to spend a couple of hours cleaning them up) | View | Upload your own And as its a 85 slides to be given in 45 minutes you can imagine that there is a fair amount of information missing from the slides. Simon made me promise to upload an annotated version, and I’ll try to do that soon. (and unfortunately the process of saving the slides down to

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<sep/>The reality we observe must be compatible with our existence within that reality." Namechecked in XTech keynote.

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as namechecked by Sean McGrath

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I just finished my presentation on the last day of the Xtech conference in Dublin. I’d chosen to ramble on about the advantages, problems and a few solutions of building applications atop of lots of APIs. The presentation is now up on slideshare at slideshare.net/garethr/design-strategies-for-a-distributed-web/. Lots of interesting conversations have been occurring all week and a few people have mentioned a near barcamp feel at times. It’s a pretty small, clued-up, technical audience and as

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... and by subject: you can click on the "Blog posts" link to see how you can link through from crystallography to blogs by natural language processing.

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An entry in the SPARQL-driven author index for CrystalEye that I talked about in my XTech 2008 presentation ('Representing, indexing and mining scientific data; Golem and CrystalEye')

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