In Web Application Development with Ontopia – 3. Creating the JSPs I claimed that The next blog post will explain how to add a search page to our application. Well, turns out it didn’t. I actually never wrote a post on that topic. Heck, the blog has been more or less dead for much of [...]
Searching a topic map with Ontopia
Posted by Trond on March 8, 2011
http://www.topicobserver.com/blog/semantic-web/tm/2011/searching-a-topic-map-with-ontopia/
Topic Maps Query Service – YQL for Topic Maps?
As I was playing with YUI3 and YQL (an awesome abstraction above and across web services — select * from internet) last weekend, I noticed that there is an open data table for sparql search. Not knowing whether such a thing already exists for topic maps, I created a simple Topic Maps search servlet that [...]
Posted by Trond on November 24, 2010
http://www.topicobserver.com/blog/semantic-web/tm/2010/topic-maps-query-service-yql-for-topic-maps/
PHP is not Java but Java is not a Singleton
In a reply to my twitter rant about PHP’s lack of method overloading a while ago, I was pointed to PHP Advent 2008 / PHP is not Java by Luke Welling. The post discusses how PHP code may turn unnecessary complex by applying Java-style design to PHP code. Well, it tries to. The point of [...]
Posted by Trond on July 4, 2010
http://www.topicobserver.com/blog/web-development/2010/php-is-not-java-and-java-is-not-a-singleton/
Moving to Los Angeles
The reason why this place has been really quiet lately (and I haven’t found a VPS yet), is that I’ve been quite busy moving to, meeting relatives and interviewing for jobs in the US. Luckily, the largest uncertainty is no longer an issue. Come May, I will be joining Yahoo! Music‘s team of great engineers! [...]
Posted by Trond on April 16, 2010
http://www.topicobserver.com/blog/uncategorized/2010/moving-to-los-angeles/
Downtime
We’re currently in the middle of moving to the USA. As a result, I’ve had to wave good bye to my fiber-enabled home. I’ve unplugged my Ubuntu server, am changing web hosts and therefore expect this blog, and the recently re-launched billy-corgan.com (should now redirect here), to experience some downtime during the upcoming weeks. Bookmark [...]
Posted by Trond on March 31, 2010
http://www.topicobserver.com/blog/uncategorized/2010/downtime/
Billy-Corgan.com Re-Launched as Topic Maps Based Website
Billy-Corgan.com was the first public web site I ever created and ran. I first started playing with it (and web techs) in 1998/99. In 2000, I moved it from GeoCities to its own domain name. The site had it’s golden age in 2003/2004, with up to 4 million page views / month. I believe that [...]
Posted by Trond on March 23, 2010
http://www.topicobserver.com/blog/semantic-web/tm/2010/billy-corgan-com-re-launched-as-topic-maps-based-website/
MySQL BLOB to File in 20+ Lines of PHP Code
One of the nice things about PHP is how extremely quick it is to hack together a script that will save your day. Today, I needed to throw together a script for converting some images stored as BLOBs in an old MySQL database of mine, to JPEG files stored on the file system (obviously, I [...]
Posted by Trond on March 9, 2010
http://www.topicobserver.com/blog/web-development/2010/mysql-blob-to-file-in-20-lines-of-php-code/