http://davide.eynard.it Davide "+mala" Eynard's website Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:46:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [Foreword: this is article number 4 of the new "hacks" series. Read here if you want to know more about this.] "I believe in the bicycle kicks of Bonimba, and in Keith Richard's riffs": for whoever recognizes this movie quote, it will be easy to imagine what you could feel when ... http://davide.eynard.it/?p=161 Hey, did you know that the "where" keyword in the "where" clause in SPARQL is optional? Yep, you can check it here! What does this mean? Well, instead of writing something like select ?s ?p ?o where{ ?s ?p ?o } you can write select ?s ?p ?o { ?s ?p ?o } So, what's ... http://davide.eynard.it/?p=141 [Foreword: this is article number 3 of the new "hacks" series. Read here if you want to know more about this. A huuuuuge THANX to Aliosha who helped me with the translation of this article!] A typical characteristic of hackers is the desire to understand -in the most intimate details- the ... http://davide.eynard.it/?p=147 Maybe we still have some problems... ;-) http://davide.eynard.it/?p=138 [Foreword: this is article number 2 of the new "hacks" series. Read here if you want to know more about this] [Foreword 2: if you know me, you also know I usually don't use the term "hacker" lightly. I'm sure you will understand what I mean here without being offended, whether ... http://davide.eynard.it/?p=127 [This is article number 1 of the new "hacks" series. Read here if you want to know more about this] In the beginning was the command line. Then, the evolution of software saw more and more complex graphical applications, able to abstract from low-level machine operations and make work much easier ... http://davide.eynard.it/?p=108 It all started last winter, when a couple of old friends asked me if I wanted to help in writing articles for an Italian magazine. The zine was targeted at young people willing to learn something more about what is going on inside their computer: some would call them wannabe ... http://davide.eynard.it/?p=106 Just a couple of links to other participants' feedbacks on Ibiza VoCamp: A post by Peter Mika A post by Alexandre Monnin And now that we speak about this, here's a pic of the actual owner of our room in Ibiza: from the very first day, he followed us to the room and ... http://davide.eynard.it/?p=85 At last, SquirrelRDF-IMAP code is available! check it out from the SVN repository into Eclipse: svn co https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/jena/SquirrelRDF/trunk add Jena libs to the project's build path (I tested Jena 2.5.6 and it works fine) the class to run is com.hp.hpl.squirrelrdf.imap.test.Scratch.java, a very very simple app which loads a ready made SPARQL query and sends ... http://davide.eynard.it/?p=92 Got back from Vocamp Ibiza + Future of Web Search 2009 Workshop. Just one word: great! [caption id="attachment_80" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="VoCampers at work"][/caption] I spent a great time there and came back enlightened and with a lot of enthusiasm. Hope that will last long enough to produce something interesting :-) Tom Heath has ... http://davide.eynard.it/?p=79