Happy New Year 2010 After a busy December month, the Christmas vacation finally gave me some room to concentrate on what really matters. Here’s my third blog post on building web apps with Ontopia. A bit late – I had hoped to have it out before Christmas – but at least I made it within [...]
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Web Application Development with Ontopia – 3. Creating the JSPs
Posted by Trond on January 1, 2010
http://www.topicobserver.com/blog/semantic-web/tm/2010/web-application-development-with-ontopia-part-3/
Web Application Development with Ontopia – 2. Creating the Database
Intro This blog post is part of a series on Web Application Development with Ontopia. Part 1: Installation & Requirements Part 2: Creating the Database Part 3: Creating the JSPs In part 1, we looked at how to set up Ontopia. We also described the application that we intend to build (a blog) and what [...]
Posted by Trond on December 4, 2009
http://www.topicobserver.com/blog/semantic-web/tm/2009/web-application-development-with-ontopia-part-2/
Web Application Development with Ontopia – 1. Installation & Requirements
Introduction Ontopia is an Open Source application that lets you create, manipulate and navigate information represented in topic maps. It’s also a toolbox for building all sorts of applications. Among the advantages of topic maps driven applications are enhanced navigation and search capabilities. Ever since Ontopia went Open Source earlier this year, I’ve wanted to [...]
Posted by Trond on November 21, 2009
http://www.topicobserver.com/blog/semantic-web/tm/2009/web-application-development-with-ontopia-part-1-installation-requirements/
Event Delegation with YUI 3.0
Personally I’ve never used the YUI library (yet), but the new event delegation functionality of YUI 3.0 has a very nice look to it: // Defining simple listeners on each element: Y.on(“click”, handleClick, “#container ul li a.profile”); // Defining listener on a container using the delegate() method: Y.delegate(‘click’, handleClick, ‘#container’, ‘ul li a.profile’); [...] Event [...]
Posted by Trond on November 16, 2009
http://www.topicobserver.com/blog/web-development/2009/event-delegation-with-yui-3-0/
Canoo WebTest: Get Request URL & Refresh Page
The other day I needed to “re-invoke”/refresh the current page – i.e. the response HTML – during a <webtest />. Since neither the manual nor a couple of quick Google searches gave me what I needed, here’s how I solved the problem using a simple <scriptStep> followed by an <invoke>: In case it might be [...]
Posted by Trond on September 30, 2009
http://www.topicobserver.com/blog/web-development/2009/getting-the-current-request-url-and-refreshing-the-page-inside-a-canoo-webtest/
Setting Up Zope Topic Maps (ZTM3)
The newest version of the open source CMS (SMS (?)) based on Zope and Topic Maps – ZTM3 reached beta stage earlier this year.
While its predecessor — ZTM2, running on Zope 2.x — has been empowering a multitude of web portals for years (examples: Arctic-Council.org, Forbrukerportalen.no, Hoyre.no), ZTM3 is a new and completely re-written ZTM implementation built on the “Zope 3 eco system”.
It initially started with the new University of Bergen (UiB) web site, which is the only publicly available ZTM3 empowered site to date (presented at Topic Maps 2009), and is (as far as I know) currently used by the UiB and one additional organization.
Released under the LGPL/GPL license and fully open source, there is, however, no reason why it should end there.
Posted by Trond on May 2, 2009
http://www.topicobserver.com/blog/semantic-web/tm/2009/setting-up-zope-topic-maps-ztm3/
Simple Web 2.0 Photo Album with jQuery
Yesterday a colleague of mine asked me about what would be the requirements of HTML used for an image gallery using modal windows. As I’ve previously done this myself, I thought I might as well share some code in this blog. Bookmark on Delicious Recommend on Facebook Tweet about it Buzz it up Subscribe to [...]
Posted by Trond on March 21, 2009
http://www.topicobserver.com/blog/web-development/2009/simple-photo-album-with-jquery/