This is the kind of stuff that really gets my thinking bones going!
http://decentralyze.com/2010/03/09/rdf-meets-nosql/
Anyone else out there have ideas about this kind of stuff?
09 Aug 2010
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08 Jan 2010
RDF personal finance database
Okay, this is an idea that’s been developing in my mind ever since I realized how closely the secrets of the internals to Quicken® were held. Build a personal finance application that uses RDF as the backend store. Every time I’ve tried to do something in an SQL database, or as a spreadsheet, I run into the problem of imperfect data representation: if you don’t get your table models pretty close to what you’ll need when everything is finished, you don’t really have much that’s useful. RDF gives you a graph representation that can mimic tables that are arbitrarily wide. RDF remembers facts that are important, while allowing you to change your mind about what’s essential. I’ll post more once I know more.
23 Jan 2009
Band Name Generator
I used to have a cool little program I wrote on the web, called the band name generator. I’d gone through a couple different versions, adding features, and had a lot of fun writing it. Then I lost interest, changed internet service providers, and let it just go away.
It’s coming back. Woo Hoo. I’ve found it’s been a really great way to get myself motivated to learn new ways of doing things. I can take a concept that I’ve thought about in deep detail, and re-imagine it in terms of the latest ideas that happen in web programming.
The next set of “buzzwords du jour” will be “RDF”, “SPARQL”, and “ontology”. That will mean BUPKUS to most of you, but I’m excited.
22 Jan 2009
FOAF and Facebook
“FOAF” means “friend of a friend”, for those that don’t know, and if you don’t, just skip this post.
I went on Facebook, and used their FOAF Generator tool, to (what else?) generate some FOAF, which I tweaked a bit by hand, got it to validate at the W3C’s RDF Validator, and the stuck it up at here.
The exciting part, is what others can do with it. See what the FOAF Explorer does.