Posts Tagged ‘ software ’
Last year, a company called DWave Systems announced their quantum computer (the ‘Orion’) – another milestone on the road to practical quantum computing. Their controversial claims seem worthy in their own right but they are particularly important to the semantic web (SW) community. The significance to the SW community was that their quantum computer solved [ READ MORE ]
Some time back I wrote a quote of the day: There is no greater joy than soaring high on the wings of your dreams, except maybe the joy of watching a dreamer who has nowhere to land but in the ocean of reality. For a moment I though the quote was apropos for Alec Clew’s [ READ MORE ]
OWL defines two types of property: DatatypeProperty and ObjectProperty. An object property links instances from two Classes, just like a reference in .NET between two objects. In OWL you define it like this: <owl:ObjectProperty rdf:ID=”isOnAlbum”> <rdfs:domain rdf:resource=”#Track”/> <rdfs:range rdf:resource=”#Album”/> </owl:ObjectProperty> A DatatypeProperty is similar to a .NET property that stores some kind of primitive [ READ MORE ]
As promised last time, I have extended the query mechanism of my little application with a LINQ Query Provider. I based my initial design on the method published by Bart De Smet, but have extended that framework, cleaned it up and tied it in with the original object deserialiser for SemWeb (a semantic web library [ READ MORE ]
Last time I hurriedly showed you how you can perform the next step of converting a triple store into an ORM system of sorts. The purpose of all this activity, and the reason I left off blogging about LINQ was that I am working on a system to allow me to use LINQ with a [ READ MORE ]
I’ve been off the air for a week or two – I’ve been hard at work on the final stages of a project at work that will go live next week. I’ve been on this project for almost 6 months now, and next week I’ll get a well earned rest. What that means is I [ READ MORE ]
To quote Niklaus Wirth: Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster[ READ MORE ]
I’ve been taking the new Visual Studio Preview for a spin, and it’s got some pretty nice new additions. These aren’t just the headline features that have been publicized elsewhere, but the thoughtful additions to usability that will make our lives a little bit easier. They should also help us to make our code a [ READ MORE ]
In a previous post, I kinda outed myself as a lover of “find | xargs” and grep. It seems that I inadvertantly gave offence to Jeffrey Snover (the architect of powershell), for whom I have great respect. So I thought I ought to set the record straight. I like powershell a lot, and I suspect [ READ MORE ]
Live Labs has now put Photosynth on display to the public. You can’t add your own photos yet, but the interface is everything that they promised. I can’t wait to be able to use this on my own photos. I think it will change the way I use my camera. With this interface I will [ READ MORE ]
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