Monthly Archives: February 2007

RDF – What's It Good For?

Posted on Wednesday, 28th Feb 2007 by Caz

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

Posted on Wednesday, 21st Feb 2007 by Caz

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

Posted on Sunday, 18th Feb 2007 by Caz

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

Posted on Saturday, 17th Feb 2007 by Caz

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

Posted on Saturday, 17th Feb 2007 by Caz

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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