Sitemap - 2008 - Mark Watson’s Artificial Intelligence Books and Blog
I am very much enjoying learning Haskell
How far can corporate oversight reform go? Fix our agriculture industry?
Good article on adding security to Semantic Web applications
Something fun: new book project on the Semantic Web using AllegroGraph
Giving up on just using one IDE
Don't repeat yourself: for code, sure, but how about for data?
Good Ruby support in IntelliJ 8.0
Complaints about Ruby memory use: false?
My Merb DevX article is online
Charming and useful: Tim O'Reilly's conversation with Yossi Vardi
Cool: OS X version of Mono 2.0 released
I converted RubyPlanet.net to Ruby + Merb
Swi-Prolog and the Semantic Web
Trying to find a single Java web application framework
Looking for reviewers for my book "Practical Artificial Intelligence Programming With Java"
Inspirational: David Heinemeier Hansson's keynote talk at RailsConf
Very cool: PracTex online magazine for LaTex users
Space4J: similar to Prevayler but takes advantage of Java 1.6 concurrent data access APIs
Extracting text from a documents
I'll be at MerbCamp in San Diego October 11-12
Rails, Trails, Lift, and Seaside
Java arrays and primitive types should (perhaps) be deprecated
Just out: my DevX article on Semantic Web, Sesame with Java and JRuby
Wanted: authors for my 'virtual publishing' business
New version of my KBtextmaster NLP library is available
More use of Eclipse and Mylyn: new book project using Latex
Eclipse Mylyn: a show-changer?
New cuil.com search site and other alternative search engines
Open data sources like Metaweb, Wikipedia, and SEC Edgar database
Dynamic language 'goodness': comparing JRuby and Java Semantic Web example programs
I am evaluating Google's Protocol Buffers for my knowledgebooks.com KB_bundle product
A trip down memory lane: Pascal development
Great tools: the Java advantage
Good news: Microsoft to support ODF as default Word file format
Ruby on Rails 2.1 and the MagLev Ruby virtual machine
"Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull": Cate Blanchett steals the show
Packaging Java libraries to be "IDE friendly"
Scala and the Lift web applicaton framework
Book review: "Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist"
Programming: sometimes simpler is better
I am back from 14 days of travelling in Northern Mexico
Using JSON for communicating between Ruby and Lisp or Scheme
National Public Radio: "Our Confusing Economy, Explained" - excellent!
Book review: "Building SOA-Based Composite Applications Using NetBeans IDE 6"
Minimum number of languages that a developer should master?
Advantages of open source: quickly working around problems
Excellent video: Dan Ingalls demos Lively Kernel at Google
Ruby becoming a first class language on Mac OS X
Importance of understanding business and sales issues; dynamc languages
Ruby client code for accessing OpenCalais and Metaweb/Freebase web services
Heavy weight Javascript client applications vs. lighter weight AJAX
Microsoft live.com, Yahoo attempted buyout
My DevX article "Real-Life Rails: Develop with NetBeans, Deploy on Linux"
NetBeans 6.1 development build: almost there for my work
PostgreSQL 8.3 on OS X: I like the full text indexing/search features
Getting Things Done: a perspective from a work at home programmer
I finally tried Ruby 1.9 (developer's release)
More TV/Internet convergence: Hulu.com
I updated CookingSpace.com - now shows nutrients for meals and daily meal plans
Ruby on Rails Fixed Price Quick Start Service
Wow: a Java application with 25 megabytes of JAR files
The great static vs. dynamic typing debate
Nicholas Carr is correct re: world wide computing cloud
Cool: Common Lisp Elephant object persistence package
NetBeans 6.0 Visual Web Pack: not ready, but looks promising