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FAO: RDF

February 20th, 2007 (2007-02-20T23:32:20-0800) 16 Comments

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 [...]

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Post-BarCamp

February 20th, 2007 (2007-02-20T01:35:51-0800)

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 [...]

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Upcoming conferences

February 15th, 2007 (2007-02-15T23:50:39-0800)

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 [...]

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Happy Camper

September 5th, 2006 (2006-09-05T00:08:00-0700) 2 Comments

Well, BarCampLondon has passed in a flurry of excitement, stimulation, free t-shirts and incredible all night games of werewolf.

It was a really good event socially and there were some real gems amongst the presentations and discussions that took place. Standing out for me were:

The discussion of digital music, which could easily have gone on all [...]

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Camp it Up (and other cheap puns)

August 16th, 2006 (2006-08-16T22:44:17-0700) 2 Comments

BarCamp is coming to the UK next month for two days and many are attending.

8th Rule: If this is your first time at BarCamp, you HAVE to present.

Woah scary. I’m not the most experienced of public speakers nor the most confident so I’ve teamed up with Steve Marshall and we’re going to try and do [...]

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