Friday, November 17, 2006, 12:41 PM
- Java
And more pain! In the last two days I've been trying to deploy Axis2 as an OSGI bundle, and it has proven almost completely impossible.
The reason for this was the general idea that axis2 should be better than axis1 (see, it goes to 11, eh, to 2) and the developers are very excited about it, saying "Axis2 is very much straight forward and friendly to use than it's predecessor.". Now after two days and no hair left I wish I had googled "Axis2 sucks" earlier, cause it gave me this jewel of an article: Axis2 - why bother.
Read it all, but I have to pull out this quote:
[..blah, it sucks..] It really is a gift that keeps on giving. Deployment brings its own special joy sauce to burn your eyes out with and make your bottom cry rivers of brown sadness. Everything is hardcoded to a specific context path, and deploying the simplest hello world service is more likely than not to result in a jbossian stacktracefest.
PS: This post included no sensible or useful information, sorry.
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( 3 / 2990 )Tuesday, October 24, 2006, 10:00 PM
- PhD
I just found I had to include some RDF files in the appendix of my thesis, going with the "normal people shouldn't ever have to see RDF/XML" line I will include it as N3 (which also makes sense since that's how I wrote it). source-highlight helped me typeset beautiful prolog before, but lacks a language definitions for N3. Luckily the definition langauge is simple, and by steal definitions left-right and center this only took 20 miniutes.
I give you: the n3.lang file, example output for html, and for latex here as PDF.
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( 3 / 3189 )Sunday, October 22, 2006, 12:37 PM
- Gnowsis
To make Gnowsis more sexy and fun (isn't that all we want?) for ISWC, I added a quick hack that lets you geo-tag cities in your PIMO using the services from http://www.geonames.org/ (I also used the RDF representation of ISO3166 from downlode.org):
The tagged cities (or any concept really) is then shown on the PIMO Map:
Additionally, we recently added code that keeps track of creation data for concepts, making it possible to display them on Simile Timeline. This still requires a lot of work, it should really create hot-zone bands for busy periods, and maybe make it possible to show the whole thing with a year/month/week granularity (although, this should really be in the simile code, zooming in and out like google-maps! With smooth animation and swoosh sound effects! and cleaning your teeth...):
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( 3 / 3106 )Friday, October 6, 2006, 04:35 PM
- Gnowsis
Another good way to waste time - this week I learned how to use Inkscape, and made a SVG icons for all of the PIMO classes. I found that it's pretty damn hard to think of a good graphic representation of "process concept' :)Inkscape really is a joy to use - although the gradient editor could be better. The colours were all taken from a scheme from ColorBrewer.
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( 3.1 / 2852 )Thursday, September 21, 2006, 08:03 PM
- Everything Else, Coding
Looking through my harddisk trying to free up some space I just came across a folder called "old", which was a copy of my old harddisk, containing three folders "c","d" and "e" one for each partition, the whole thing was still only 3GB. In addition to lots of pictures, letters, etc. that I was sure was lost I found the sources for the very first webpage I made! This was back in the day when we had to make a long-distance phone call to get online (i.e. we had to phone to Oslo), and for some reason I shared my email with the friend who had signed up with the ISP. Maybe we hadn't heard of free webmail. My friend Johan was an early adopter and already had a webpage about the RPG Shatterzone, which amazingly still exists!. He had cool table-based layouts for making nice frames, and taught me everything I needed to know about HTML :)
He's still miles ahead of me and today he runs Styleboost.
So enough talk, without further ado, I give you
VACUUM FIGHTER!
The page mainly speaks for itself I think, although the sentence "I've spent a rather long time developing this X, not that it ever was finished." sounds like something I said last week :)
The download links for the code works, I will have a look at that now, maybe I'll post some highlights later!
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