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Ideas for the OR10 Developer Challenge?
Update: I have closed comment on this post now. Thank you very much to all who commented and suggested ideas for a challenge. I have now posted a draft Challenge here and would welcome comments on that post. Thanks again! … Continue reading
Developer happiness
Are you a developer of software? Could you be happier? If so, come along to the JISC Developer Happiness Days event! From the website: Over four intensive days we’re bringing together the cream of the crop of educational software developers … Continue reading
Europeana, numbers and scalable architectures
I just got around to reading the press release issued after the collapse of Europeana (previously the more easily pronounced ‘European Digital Library’) following its launch a couple of weeks ago. If you go to the site now, you are … Continue reading
Posted in Software Development, Web Infrastructure
Tagged europeana scalable-architecture
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COPAC gets RESTful
Just a quick pointer to the really encouraging announcement from the COPAC development blog that COPAC individual COPAC records are now addressed with a persistent, and RESTful(ish) URL. The example given is: …the work “China tide : the revealing story … Continue reading
The opportunistic developer is allergic to soap
For some time now I’ve been thinking about what I think of as the ascendency of the opportunistic developer in web application development. The phrase has unfortunate connotations for those who remember the ‘personas’ meme from some years ago when … Continue reading
Posted in Programmable Web, Software Development, Web Infrastructure
Tagged iedmonstrator, JISC IE, opportunistic-developer, ReST, SOAP
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Inadvertent spamming and calendar woes
At the University of Bath, where UKOLN is based, we use an enterprise calendar solution from Oracle. It’s OK, no worse than some others I’ve used, but not great. It does have a client for Mac OSX in its favour…. … Continue reading
Digital library pipeline for a million books.
I was pleased to be invited by Brian Fuchs to a ‘Million Books Workshop’ at Imperial College, London last Friday. A fascinating day, in the company of what was, for me, an unusual group of 20-30 linguists, classical scholars and … Continue reading
SOA and reusable knowledge
After a few years of reading about (and, once upon a time, practising) Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) development, I was interested to read Galen Gruman’s article in Infoworld on its take-up in the mainstream, commercial world. I got interested in … Continue reading
A minor response to Repositories thru the looking glass
In Repositories thru the looking glass over on the eFoundations blog, Andy Powell gives a summary of a keynote he gave to the Vala Conference last week. It’s interesting stuff, and I will take the time to look at the … Continue reading
Posted in Information Management, Programmable Web, Software Development, eResearch
Tagged Andy Powell, Ben O'Steen, Matt Zumwalt, repositories, ReST
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DataPortability – Facebook to play along
Facebook, Google And Plaxo Join The DataPortability Workgroup. So, parts of the blogosphere are quite excited by the news that Facebook, previously criticised for being a closed system, has agreed to join the DataPortability Workgroup. According to Duncan Riley, the … Continue reading
Posted in Programmable Web, Social Software, Software Development
Tagged DataPortability, Facebook
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