Archive for February, 2007

Another short post after the lengthy pieces of recent days. The BBC are developing a fabulous piece of software called ‘iPlayer’. It will let you watch BBC television and radio broadcasts in full over the internet for periods of time after their first airing. I want it now.

However, it appears that Microsoft have lobbied in [...]

Wordpress have inexplicably broken full-text feeds in Wordpress 2.1 but truncating any articles which contain a separator — used to reduce the length of articles on the front page.

If you’ve upgraded to 2.1 and not noticed yet (I mean, it’s not like we read our own feeds, is it?) the good news [...]

In my BarCamp round-up I commented on RDF getting a strong showing in presentations. It caught my eye and I came out feeling optimistic about the future of rich data on the web. Don’t misinterpret that sentence as RDF enthusiasm yet, though.

The thing about RDF is that no-one has yet demonstrated any real-world reason to [...]

BarCamp London 2 was a fantastic and enjoyable success this weekend.

Lots of interesting things presented, but there was no escaping the presence of a more semantic web.

On a personal level my presentation on ASP.NET and Web Standards got a fairly sparse attendance (not much of a surprise, given ASP.NET’s reputation), but I think I presented [...]

As the tech world continues to heat up year-on-year, the conference season starts up earlier and earlier. It’s reached a point where the entire year becomes one great big geek piss up, with a short break at Christmas to get drunk with our families instead.

In fact, the next few months suddenly look rather busy:

BarCamp London [...]