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Searching a topic map with Ontopia

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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