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		<title>Searching a topic map with Ontopia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Web Application Development with Ontopia &#8211; 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&#8217;t. I actually never wrote a post on that topic. Heck, the blog has been more or less dead for much of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Topic Maps Query Service &#8211; YQL for Topic Maps?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I was playing with YUI3 and YQL (an awesome abstraction above and across web services &#8212; 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PHP is not Java but Java is not a Singleton</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a reply to my twitter rant about PHP&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moving to Los Angeles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The reason why this place has been really quiet lately (and I haven&#8217;t found a VPS yet), is that I&#8217;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&#8216;s team of great engineers! [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Downtime</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re currently in the middle of moving to the USA. As a result, I&#8217;ve had to wave good bye to my fiber-enabled home. I&#8217;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.]]></description>
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		<title>Billy-Corgan.com Re-Launched as Topic Maps Based Website</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s golden age in 2003/2004, with up to 4 million page views / month. I believe that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MySQL BLOB to File in 20+ Lines of PHP Code</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Readable Code: In the Eye of the Beholder?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In his most recent blog posting &#8211; 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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.topicobserver.com/blog/web-development/2010/readable-code-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder/</link>
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		<title>What I Like About C#</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Coming from the Open Source world I had never really worked with .NET &#8211; except for some minor Sharepoint 2007 stuff &#8211; until last September. That&#8217;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&#8217;t that much of a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.topicobserver.com/blog/web-development/2010/what-i-like-about-csharp/</link>
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		<title>Open to Web Development Opportunities in the US</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Shoot me an e-mail at trondpet[curly-thingy]hotmail.com if you&#8217;re a US based employer in need of a sr. web developer with a proven track record. I&#8217;m a US citizen with no need of sponsorship. My strengths are web development and -programming &#8212; from architecture and back-end programming to front-end coding. Below is a list of some of [...]]]></description>
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