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Mulgara RDF Triple-Store
Over the past 4 months I have intermittently been looking into the use of the Mulgara RDF triple store. Mulgara is an open-source RDF triple store that boasts to be able to handle up to 7 Billion nodes and was developed some big players in the semantic web space (Zepheira, Topaz and Fedora Commons). My [...]
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Building GRAILS app on Debian using Maven GRAILS Plugin
We’re now using GRAILS in one of our Maven-ized projects, and have it building using the Maven GRAILS plugin. We needed to roll this integration out to Husdon, our CI server which is running on a Debian box. We ran into a couple of snags.
We had downloaded and installed the debian package grails_1.0.4-1_all.deb [...]
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LiquiBase-ifying your Grails Application
At 2Paths we’ve got some pretty good processes in place: we practice agile software development and scrum, have all our projects set up in Continuous Integration. We try to do test-driven development where at all possible. One area that has slipped through the cracks though is database change management. What company hasn’t run into the [...]
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Winter at Waterfall
Vancouver received, well, alot of snow for Vancouver. People always say we get alot of rain. Think of that rain in a “snow-like form” and you get a sense of the volume/intensity.
So, needless to say it was a gong-show out there. Those coming to work from further afield naturally called to say [...]
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Holidays, making an impact and creative capitalism
Over the past year we’ve been involved with several projects and initiatives that will have a global impact on aid transparency and effectiveness. They revolve around high level flows of funds from donor to recipient countries, even to the specific projects that are happening. It’s pretty heady stuff. With the holidays we [...]
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2008 Retrospective - Our Year Remembered
This year we made a point of making time to reflect on things, not just at the end of the year, but all the way through it. At the End of a project, the End of a quarter, sometimes even the end of a conversation. We adopted a new routine of hosting Clearinghouse meetings to [...]
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Tequila Rendering Made Easier
Recently I’ve been working on our in-house open source project, Tequila. It is a RESTful web service framework, and was lacking some familiar rendering capabilities out of the box. (See tequilaframework.org/ for project details). The formats that we thought may be useful were XML, JSON, and RDF, and so I set out to provide these [...]
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QCon SF 2008 - Technology Of Interest
Part of the purpose of attending QCon was to get in synch with the tech community in regards to technology they have experimented with and have found use for. The following is a list of technology/frameworks/etc of interest that I took away from the conference:
CouchDB - Document oriented database
Memcached - Distributed Hashmap
MemcacheDB - A database [...]
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QCon SF 2008 - Day 3
I was pretty excited about the “Architectures you’ve always wondered about” stream for day 3 of the conference. It started off horribly. Dan Pritchett of MySpace was up first and basically took the change to showoff his personally little project that allows events from their thousands of servers to notify them what’s going on within [...]
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QCon SF 2008 - Day 2
As I mentioned in my post yesterday, I was expecting more from the conference today than I experienced yesterday. What I’m expecting at a tech conference is to talk tech such that the speaker presents their expertise or lessons learned. I didn’t get much of that yesterday but today was another story. We kicked off [...]
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