This Month
- Feb 03Case Study: Use of Semantic Web Technologies on the BBC Web Sites
Creating web identifiers for every item the BBC has an interest in, and considering those as aggregations of BBC content about that item, allows us to enable very rich cross-domain user journeys. This means BBC content can be discovered by users in many different ways, and content teams within the organisation have a focal point around which to organise their content.
- Feb 03uberblic.org
Uberblic.org is a linked data integration service providing a single point of access to the web of data. We carefully curate data sources on the web into a single connected data set.
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January 2010
- Jan 29The 14 Days of jQuery
Welcome to The 14 Days of jQuery! We're excited to bring you fourteen consecutive days of new releases to celebrate the release of jQuery 1.4. You'll notice that we're excited about the number fourteen since jQuery 1.4 is being released on the birthday of jQuery (January 14th) . So be sure to come back each day as another announcement is made and new content is released!
- Jan 29Realism in UI Design
The history of the visual design of user interfaces can be described as a gradual change towards more realism. As computers have become faster, designers have added increasingly realistic details such as color, 3D effects, shadows, translucency, and even simple physics. Some of these changes have helped usability. Shadows behind windows help us see which window is active. The physicality of the iPhone’s user interface makes the device more natural to use.
- Jan 27neo4j open source nosql graph database
Neo4j is a graph database. It is an embedded, disk-based, fully transactional Java persistence engine that stores data structured in graphs rather than in tables. A graph (mathematical lingo for a network) is a flexible data structure that allows a more agile and rapid style of development.
- Jan 25Projekt JOS
Projekt JOS razvija označene korpuse slovenskega jezika in pridružene vire, namenjene spodbujanju razvoja jezikovnih tehnologij za slovenski jezik.
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- Jan 22hoverIntent jQuery Plug-in
hoverIntent is a plug-in that attempts to determine the user's intent... like a crystal ball, only with mouse movement! It works like (and was derived from) jQuery's built-in hover. However, instead of immediately calling the onMouseOver function, it waits until the user's mouse slows down enough before making the call.
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- Jan 20SPARQL Update
This document describes SPARQL/Update, an update language for RDF graphs. It uses a syntax derived form SPARQL. Update operations are performed on a collection of graphs in a Graph Store. Operations are provided to change existing RDF graphs as well as create and remove graphs with the Graph Store.
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- Jan 18Coding Horror: Why Can't Programmers.. Program?
Like me, the author is having trouble with the fact that 199 out of 200 applicants for every programming job can't write code at all. I repeat: they can't write any code whatsoever.
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- Jan 12Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young - chicagotribune.com
The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4 p.m. on some idle Tuesday.

