Tim Berners-Lee talk on Linked Open Data

Quite a nice presentation from Tim on the basic ideas of Linked Open Data. Here’s the video of his talk at TED. Doesn’t say much new to people who already...

No, actually, I did mean POST

I’m working on a Flex UI which is driving a RESTful service backend. Well, OK, the current implementation uses standard HTTP verbs but isn’t fully bought in to hypermedia-as-the-engine-of-application-state, so...

Hand gesture UI using only a webcam

Intriguing experimental gesture-based interface from Microsoft Research, via the MAKE Blog. Screams out to me to be used as the UI for a driving or flying game. Of course, using...

When I grow up ...

When I grow up, I want to be … a devsigner. No, seriously: dev_eloper + de_signer, geddit? OK, so the word itself is in dire need of a makeover, but...

AjaxWorld wrap-up

Back home now after AjaxWorld, with the jet-lag beginning to fade. It was, on the whole a good event, though not quite what I expected. For starters, it was smaller...