Monthly Archives: April 2008

links for 2008-04-09

Posted on April 9, 2008 by gareth

Take Control of Your Maps Replicate Google Maps’ functionality with open source software, tailored to your needs. (tags: google howto web maps opensource mapping googlemaps)

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Increasing SPARQL performance

Posted on April 7, 2008 by gareth

Recently I’ve been playing (for work, honest!) with the Semantic Web related technology SPARQL, a query language for RDF. I ended up creating some very complex queries for my OWL ontologies that were being executed through Jena, a Java framework … Continue reading →

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Am I online?

Posted on April 5, 2008 by gareth

I’ve recently changed my broadband provider and wondered how reliable they’d be. I figured I needed a way for my house to let me know whenever the connection had dropped and for how long for etc. Remembering my post a … Continue reading →

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links for 2008-04-05

Posted on April 5, 2008 by gareth

GNOME Do Allows you to quickly search for many items present in your GNOME desktop environment. Like Quicksilver on the Mac but for Linux. (tags: gnome do linux productivity quicksilver launcher software search)

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links for 2008-04-01

Posted on April 1, 2008 by gareth

Adobe AIR alpha for Linux The Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) alpha release for Linux (tags: adobe air linux) SVG Inter-Document Communication How to communicate between scripts in an SVG image and in the HTML file that contains it (both ways) … Continue reading →

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