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 [...]
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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/
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/
Readable Code: In the Eye of the Beholder?
In his most recent blog posting – In the Eye of the Beholder (ah, reminds me of EoB II), JavaScripter James Padolsey (if you do some JavaScripting / jQuery, follow his blog) argues that the readability of anything is entirely dependent on who’s doing the reading. He also states that readability depends on how proficient [...]
Posted by Trond on February 20, 2010
http://www.topicobserver.com/blog/web-development/2010/readable-code-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder/
What I Like About C#
Coming from the Open Source world I had never really worked with .NET – except for some minor Sharepoint 2007 stuff – until last September. That’s when I joined a project maintaining a .NET application written in C#. Since I had previously worked with Java, becoming a (visiting) C# developer wasn’t that much of a [...]
Posted by Trond on February 6, 2010
http://www.topicobserver.com/blog/web-development/2010/what-i-like-about-csharp/
Open to Web Development Opportunities in the US
Shoot me an e-mail at trondpet[curly-thingy]hotmail.com if you’re a US based employer in need of a sr. web developer with a proven track record. I’m a US citizen with no need of sponsorship. My strengths are web development and -programming — from architecture and back-end programming to front-end coding. Below is a list of some of [...]
Posted by Trond on January 25, 2010
http://www.topicobserver.com/blog/web-development/2010/open-for-web-development-opportunities-in-the-us/