Every time I start a new java project, no matter what size, the first thing I do is go hunting through my java directories looking for one to use as a template. Over time I’ve gathered some pretty useful ant targets and settled on a fairly rational directory structure. Today I got…

Here’s a little script I wrote that checks incoming wireless requests for a known MAC address. I’ve been using it on my Linux gateway/router/wireless-bridge.

UPDATE: Oliver Roup has published updated code that uses the builtin XPath processor in JDK 1.5

Some emails and comments on Screenscraping HTML with TagSoup and XPath alerted me to the fact that the example I gave on…

Recently I was trying to connect a Garmin Geko 201 GPS unit to my laptop on a 2.4 series linux kernel…

Often I find I need to pull out a bit of information from a webpage to reuse inside some code. I’ve always done this from the commandline using a combination of wget, HTML TIDY and xsltproc. Recently I’ve been doing the same thing in program code using…

To support the work I’ve been doing with Wordnet and RDF, I wrote a utility Java class to handle URIs from the Wordnet ontology for RDF devised by Dan Brickley.

In preparation for a TiVoBot that I’m planning to write as a wrapper for scheduling digital WinTV recordings, I’ve been looking at TV listings data produced by tools from the XMLTV project. I started out using the XML directly and storing it using Berkeley DB XML but soon found (like most…

Having connected my GPS unit to my laptop, it was time to dump the data off into a usable RDF model.

There’s a useful RDF Interest Group Geo namespace for describing simple lat/long/alt properties of points, so using
PyGarmin I wrote some…