I want to like SCXML, but executable XML is a bit of a two-bagger
Over the past few days I have been reading up on the State Chart XML spec. Ever since reading some of Stu Charltons ideas on a RESTful Hypermedia Agent and listening to his WS-REST keynote presentation, I’ve taken more of…
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…
URL vs. URI vs. URN, in More Concise Terms
Without a doubt, the URL vs. URI post is by the most visited page on this blog. Even so, there’s still a lot of confusion on the topic and so I thought I’d break it down in less words. The…
Adobe XMP Packet Extraction for the Aperture Framework
When it comes to manipulating photographs, I live in Photoshop. One feature of all Adobe products that I like is the ability to annotate images and other documents using their eXtensible Metadata Platform, or XMP. XMP is a collection of…
Semantic Web research publications need to be more “webbish”
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been taking a deep dive into the Semantic Web. As some will tell you, a number of scalability and performance issues with the Semantic Frameworks have not been fully addressed. While true to some…



