Posted in General, workfriendly on Mar 29th, 2006 1 Comment »
I don’t have much experience outside software, but when I think back to the previous successful attempts at buying/bringing in an outside software component or service, they all have something in common: commodity.
On the other hand, I can’t think of a single time (both in my experience at current and previous employers) where outsourcing or […]
Posted in Python, BicycleRepairMan, workfriendly on Mar 20th, 2006 5 Comments »
Have been experimenting with BazaarNG, a decentralized version control system. I find decentralized source control intriguing mainly I’ve been using CVS for so long that it’s odd not to have a central coordinating server. Anyway, I’ve converted the bicyclerepairman CVS tree into a Bazaar branch using Tailor, so you could say I’m sort of […]
Posted in Python, BicycleRepairMan, workfriendly, programming on Mar 20th, 2006 2 Comments »
My recent work on protest has rekindled latent interest in bicyclerepairman - my (aging) python refactoring toolkit project. BRM has a number of useful facilities for parsing and querying python source trees, and I think this functionality is just the sort of thing Protest needs for inter-package dependency tracking.
The problem is that these facilities are […]
Posted in General, Python, BicycleRepairMan, workfriendly on Mar 17th, 2006 5 Comments »
I’ve been working a bit with Nat Pryce on his ‘Protest’ project recently. It’s a python unit test framework which generates documentation from the tests. E.g. you write test cases like:
class myFunctionTests:
”’ myfunction is a function belonging to me ”’
def does_something_cool():
[…]
Posted in General, Semantic Web on Mar 9th, 2006 1 Comment »
Seth posted a response to my ‘global identifiers don’t scale’ post that I didn’t expect. His point is that it is the meaning that isn’t consistent across the semantic web, not the identifiers. I agree with him about meaning being inconsistent, but it’s the distinction that confuses me - in my posts I’ve conflated identity […]
Posted in Semantic Web on Mar 9th, 2006 3 Comments »
Thanks to everybody that commented on my ‘global identifiers don’t scale‘ post (and especially for Seth and John’s responses). It’s obvious that I didn’t make myself very clear - sorry about that.
I think I made two main points:
The first was the scalability point (one I failed to make very well at all):
By ‘global identifiers schemes […]
Posted in General, Semantic Web, workfriendly on Mar 7th, 2006 8 Comments »
When designing large information systems to hold data from a wide range of sources (e.g. a large company inventory or knowledge base), a common approach is to employ a global identifier scheme so that entities can be referenced unambiguously across the system. A really large scale example of this approach is the W3C Semantic Web […]
Posted in General, nutrition, food, bakery on Mar 4th, 2006 No Comments »
I’ve been baking these for a couple of months, but last night’s attempt came out really well. Basically I’m trying to make a healthy fruitcake that tastes good and can be eaten in place of biscuits and snacks during coffee breaks etc.. I make it in the breadmaker I got for christmas and it […]
Posted in General, Semantic Web on Mar 2nd, 2006 6 Comments »
Here’s an attempt at a working definition:
The ‘meaning’ of an identifier = the complete set of assertions that can be made about it.
(for the purpose of discussion of identity in information systems).
E.g. if an assertion is true for one identifier but not another, then they don’t mean (or denote) the same thing.
Does that sound […]
