RESTful URIs, Unicorns, and Pixie Dust
It often pains me to hear people talking about so-called “RESTful URLs”. If you’re using that term, or your spending the majority of you application planning designing URI structures rather than your media types, then chances are you don’t really…
URL vs. URI: URLs as Queries and URIs as Identities
Continuing my with my ranting about the URL vs. URI bit, I thought I’d continue on given my renewed interest in this topic thanks to Ora. In our LEDP position paper, we made the observation that URLs represent queries while…
W3C Linked Enterprise Data Workshop and more about URLs vs. URIs
Last week, I had the pleasure of attending the W3C workshop on Linked Enterprise Data Patterns. My colleague Ora Lassila and I gave a presentation on the isues of identity in Linked Data. You can read our position paper and…
Amazon Makes the Kindle Fire an Easy Target for a Thief
Having recieved a Kindle Fire this year, I was really surprised at the unpacking process and minimal security. While the device is very nice, the whole unpacking process made me realize that the Kindle Fire is a package thief’s dream….
URL vs. URI vs. URN: The Confusion Continues
A year has passsed since my last post on URIs and URLs and it would seem that some of the concepts are still lost on some folks. With that said, I figured I’d throw up another post that I could try…
