Category Archives: microformats

dConstruct 2008

I realise I’m hideously behind with blogging about lots of geeky stuff, but here goes. Apologies if you were expecting this sooner! This year’s dConstruct was a lot larger than I was expecting: the last time I went in 2006 … Continue reading

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London Web Week – Microformats vEvent

The last week of May was designated London Web Week, and I aimed to attend as many events as possible during the schedule. I took the sensible step of staying at a friend’s house in Peckham for a good chunk … Continue reading

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Semantic Camp Day 2

Semantic Camp Session 6 – Parsing Microformats Gareth Rushgrove Gareth gave us a quick rundown of the various parsers which are available. Language Specific – most available apart from Java. Language agnostic – web services hKit – open source PHP … Continue reading

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Semantic Camp Day 1

There have been general BarCamps aplenty, but this one, arranged by Semantic evangelist Tom Morris, was geared specifically towards the Semantic (and semantic) Web. It had a slightly different feel to it, in that we didn’t stay overnight. But it … Continue reading

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BarCampLondon3 – Day 1

The time for another BarCampLondon3 has rolled around, and I was lucky enough to get a ticket. We all turned up at Google‘s swanky offices in Victoria knowing we would have a good time, but not quite realising what a … Continue reading

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