Perl

While the rest of the UK was enjoying a Good Friday lie-in, I dragged myself into Yalding House (home of BBC Radio 1) at 7.30am. I was there to see our new text message system get its first live broadcast use on the Chris Moyles show in a preview of the Ten Hour Takeover.

Noticing the variety in popularity amongst the different topics that the pieces on this site cover, I added a “Most Popular Entries” sidebar to keep track of what people are reading. This is done with a simple application of Apache::ParseLog, XML::RSS, movabletype’s XML-RPC…

Last night I gave a lightning talk at the london.pm techmeet that attempted to explain as simply as possible what RDF and the Semantic Web are, and how you can start playing with them with perl.

Today I discovered that a new module, Triplestore.pm, has appeared on CPAN. To my surprise, my triplequerying algorithm is cited at the end of the documentation. Looking through the code, it’s not directly built on the sample code I provided. The implementation looks…

New in the right-hand sidebar on the site front page is a little lineup of the 3 latest pictures from picdiary, my photos website. This is created by parsing the RDF in the latest photo collection RSS feed and extracting rss:title, dc:date and foaf:thumbnail information via an MT plugin…

As with the ruby rdf parser, this runs XSLT over your RDF/XML to make ntriples then parses those. It spits out mysql insert statements ready for querying with my rdf sql query stuff.

A mail to the bots list about a web-to-IRC gateway.

Subject: [Bots] gatebot — making bots URL-addressable
From: Matt Biddulph
Date: Mon Aug 26 14:41:05 2002

A simple algorithm for translating rdfdb-style queries into SQL to query a triple store with a very simple schema. A perl and a PHP implementation is provided.