Right now the world’s premiere semantic web conference is happening in Washington, D.C. As a graduate student of the fellow who’s chairing the conference this year, and working down the hall from Sir Linked Data himself, I’ve had my fair share of semantic web experiences. But my background is not in Semantic Web technology, so [...]
Many years ago I discovered NoteWorthy Composer, and I’ve been using it for music notation ever since.
Unfortunately, I find that NoteWorthy doesn’t scale very well in several important dimensions. In particular, it lacks the ability to:
Let the user manipulate multiple staves at once (even just for copying/cutting and pasting a horizontal section of music from [...]
Which approach do you take to managing information overload on the web? Do you unleash the firehose on yourself, subscribing to RSS feeds or relying on content aggregators to keep up with the news? Or do you take small sips from the stream of content, regularly checking a small set of websites to look for [...]
I am in a state of transition: from Java to OCaml.
I like Java as a platform primarily for its matureness, static typing, and great IDE integration (Netbeans in particular). But lately I’ve been finding myself manipulating a lot of tree structures—ASTs, query plans, nested relations, automatically generated GUI layouts—and Java is just too verbose. Even [...]