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23 Jul 2008
SDoW2008, deadline extended
written by Sergio Fernández at 17h43
The 1st workshop on Social Data on the Web (SDoW2008), co-located with the 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2008), has extended its deadline date. Now submission are welcomed until August 4th of 2008. For further information, please visit its webpage or contact us.
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23 Jul 2008
My blog viewed by Wordle
written by Sergio Fernández at 17h39
Via Luis Villa (thanks Tejo) I discovered a cool application, called Wordle, that takes a set of words and generates a nice picture. Something similar to extisp.icio.us, but with any webpage.
Here you have an experiment with my blog:
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19 Jul 2008
Vapour 2.0
written by Sergio Fernández at 13h25
This week we released Vapour 2.0 (read Diego’s announcement). Now it’s deployed under a new address: validator.linkeddata.org (thanks Tom for allocating it).
If you don’t know it, Vapour is a validation service to check whether semantic web data is correctly published according to the current best practices, as defined by the Linked Data principles, the Best Practice Recipes and the Cool URIs. In other words, Vapour 2.0 is a Linked Data validator (Vapour 1.0 was specifically targeted to RDF vocabularies, as we told in this paper).
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11 Jul 2008
Serving XHTML to IE
written by Sergio Fernández at 19h39
IE doesn’t support XML, it’s an old problem of this browser. So you can’t serve any mime type of XML (such XHTML), because it doesn’t know how to handler it (it offers it to download). But as it still is the browser with the biggest quote of users (I can’t understand why…), web developers have to take care of the behavior of this browser. That’s the reason because everybody is still serving XHTML (application/xhtml+xml) as simple HTML (text/html); it seems that works, but really it’s not too correct.
If you are generating the document, you can patch this thing in your application (as Diego told for Textpattern). But if you have only static documents, that trick is not so obvious. This morning, with the invaluable help of Tejo, we founded the way to do it transparently just using mod_rewrite of Apache:
AddType application/xhtml+xml .html RewriteCond %{HTTP_ACCEPT} !application/xhtml\+xml RewriteCond %{HTTP_ACCEPT} (text/html|\*/\*) RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} .*\.html RewriteRule ^.*$ - "[T=text/html,L]"So if an agent requests application/xhtml+xml, it’ll serve it in the response. But if any lost agent (such as IE) requests just text/html, that will be the mime type served. It’s not so obvious, so this post is to remember it to me in the future.
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3 Jul 2008
Back from Helsinki
written by Sergio Fernández at 16h05
Last Wednesday I went to Helsinki to visit my good friend Frade. I was there during a full week, but I really spent four days visiting Helsinki. Because we went two days to Tallinn the trip is short (only one hour and a half by ship) and the city is a really beautiful small medieval city. In this set in flickr you can see how beautiful it is. Before make this trip, I should admit that I didn’t know too much about Tallinn, but now it’s a city that I recommend to everybody.
Back to Helsinki. That was the main thing of my travel. It’s not a big city, so with three or four days you have enough to visit it. It’s not an old city (the old city was made with wood houses), so there are a few old buildings (mainly two cathedrals) and some monuments. The city has several small parks everywhere, something the I like very much. Another curious thing is the night that they have in Helsinki these days, something that is very strange when you go out from a bar at 2am.
More photos in my flickr. There I had time to see Tuukka again. And I also had the opportunity to meet some of the hackers that work in Maemo. And I don’t know… many things to tell in a simple post. Just one thing: visit Helsinki, worth the trouble. Thanks Frade!
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25 Jun 2008
On the road to Helsinki
written by Sergio Fernández at 00h06
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21 Jun 2008
What happens in Yahoo?
written by Sergio Fernández at 11h11
Recently Jeremy Zawodny left it, but this is not so important because it’s not his first jump. But when someone so important such the founders of services so popular as flickr or del.icio.us left the company means that something is going wrong… For the first case we don’t know the reasons. But Joshua Schachter left Yahoo frustrated by the stalled development of the version 2.0 of del.icio.us.
What happens in Yahoo? I love these two services, and I don’t know how to get these news…
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16 Jun 2008
June 17, Download Day 2008
written by Sergio Fernández at 20h51
Remember, tomorrow June 17th is the official date for the launch of Firefox 3.0. And the Mozilla Foundation is organizing a attempt to get the Guinness World Record for most software downloads in 24 hours, aka Download Day 2008.
All you have to do is get Firefox 3.0 during tomorrow. But remember, it’ll be available only after 10:00 San Francisco time, so 19:00 for us (CET).
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15 Jun 2008
The ten worst movies I have never watched
written by Sergio Fernández at 13h14
Hiro started this meme, Frade continued it, and now it’s my turn. I’d like to say that for me it was really difficult to remember all these bad movies, but with time I got it. And surprisingly, this list doesn’t include any Spanish movie; and neither includes Transformers, Megan Fox is enough to save it.
Let’s go with my list:
- Killer Condom, I watched it when I was a child, and I still remember it as the worst movie I’ve never watched.
- Alien vs. Predator, if you join two bad movies, you get something even worse.
- Ghost Rider, please Marvel, stop to destroy these pieces of art.
- Die Hard 4.0, I like the first part, but in the fourth you’ll see Bruce Willis in his purest form.
- The day after tomorrow, probably the worst disaster movie,
- Hostel, sorry, I can’t say more.
- Swept away, nothing to do with his previous movie.
- I, Robot, if Asimov would turn in his grave…
- The Da Vinci Code, WTF!
- The Avengers, sorry Uma, but this movie is really crappy.
Probably I forgot someone really bad, but I think at the end I got a good list.
And now I’ll pass this meme to Berrueta. Why not we can see a movie directed by Woody Allen in one of these lists…? :p
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5 Jun 2008
Back from ESWC2008
written by Sergio Fernández at 00h10
We are already come back from some days in Tenerife attending the 5th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2008).
As I talked, we had some papers in the workshops track. I presented my two papers in SFSW2008, one together with Richard and the other co-authored with Diego, Diego also presented other two (one in the same workshop and other in another one). All presentations were really well, with many interesting discussions and some news ideas. And it was also quite interesting to meet again with some friends. It was my first ESWC, but I hope it has not been the last one for me.
Outside of the work, I also had time to make a visit to my good friend Jorge, that lives just a few kilometers away where the conference was. It was a pity not to have more time to enjoy the nice island…
As usual, some photos in flickr.
