Monthly Archives: February 2007

RDF – What's It Good For?

One of the presentations that I missed at BarCampLondon2 (I was attending another session) was a light-hearted debate about the similarities and differences between Microformats and RDF. The main protagonists were: Jeremy Keith and Brian Suda in the Microformats corner … Continue reading

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Flickr And Self-Referential Folksonomy

I’ve been thinking a lot about Flickr and tagging recently, having just had to bash a load of tags onto my BarCamp pictures. Lots of my mates are members, and when we’ve got together for socials, we share the pictures … Continue reading

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BarCamp Day 2 – Morning & Afternoon

Simon Willison on OpenID Simon talked about systems for single sign-on across multiple sites. You don’t give away your user name to the site, but do it via a third party signon, such as Yahoo!. MyOpenID https://www.myopenid.com Attribute Exchange Registering … Continue reading

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BarCamp Day 1 – Evening Sessions

Mark Norman Francis on Don’t Be Scared of Code Reviews Norm explained that the purpose of a code review is not to criticise other people’s code. The findings are not escalated, there is no formal output – just for folks … Continue reading

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BarCamp Day 1 – Afternoon Sessions

Tom Scott on Open Source Incremental Backups For Windows Tom‘s presentation was useful for those who want to manage incremental backups for Windows in a sensible way. His full presentation is available here: http://www.thomasscott.net/barcamp2/ I backup my system less often … Continue reading

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