• Permalink Redirect WordPress Plugin | FuCoder.com - A WordPress plugin that replies a 301 permanent redirect, if requested URI is different from entry?s (or archive?s) permalink. It is used to ensure that there is only one URL associated with each blog entry.
  • Cool URIs for the Semantic Web - The Resource Description Framework RDF allows you to describe web documents and resources from the real world?people, organisations, things?in a computer-processable way. Publishing such descriptions on the web creates the semantic web. URIs are very important as the link between RDF and the web. This article presents guidelines for their effective use. We discuss two strategies, called 303 URIs and hash URIs. We give pointers to several web sites that use these solutions, and briefly discuss why several other proposals have problems.
  • How To Be A Gardener: Alan Titchmarsh - Google Video - This 8 episode 'How To Be A Gardener' series by Alan Titchmarsh covers the absolute essentials that every gardener needs to know. Get a cup.... 3 hr 52 min 55 sec.
  • My new mobile is lumbered with a bewildering array of unnecessary features aimed at idiots | Columnists | Guardian Unlimited - It's spreading like a sinister virus, putting me in mind of the meteor storm at the start of Day of the Triffids - a seemingly innocent event that rapidly cripples humankind. My theory: the government is offloading these twittering handheld crapstones on to as many people as possible in a bid to whip us all into a state of perpetual, simmering anger in readiness for some kind of bare-knuckle street war. Don't say I didn't warn you.
  • Semantics and Structure - Nefarious Designs - For this reason I thought I?d document some of the stuff I?ve learned about structured HTML and open it up for comment.
  • It's all good: U.S. Library Bill of Rights - Hands up, US readers...how many of your places of work have the Library Bill of Rights displayed somewhere in a public area in your library?
  • danwebb.net - The No Shit Guide To Supporting OpenID In Your Applications - With this post I?m going to blast through the absolute essentials you need to get started so if you need more general background on OpenID check out Simon?s stuff first. The examples, as you might except will be using Ruby on Rails but all of the concepts are applicable across platforms. So, without further ado, grab yourself a beer and we?ll begin?
  • JSON is not as safe as people think it is - Joe Walker's Blog - The long and short is that JSON is not safe in any system that uses cookies for authentication.
  • Scaling Python for High-Load Web Sites - pycon 2007 slides
  • bibapp - Google Code - The BibApp is an 'Institutional Bibliography'. The service matches people with citations. Once the data is captured, Librarians look for archivable works and can engage people in personalized copyright instruction.
  • The New Face of Learning - What happens to time-worn concepts of classrooms and teaching when we can now go online and learn anything, anywhere, anytime?
  • Search RDF data with SPARQL - As more data is being stored in RDF formats like RSS, a need has arisen for a simple way to locate specific information. SPARQL, a powerful new query language fills that space, making it easy to find the data you need in the RDF haystack. Take a tour of SPARQL's features and learn how to use SPARQL queries from your own Java applications with the Jena Semantic Web Toolkit.
  • Indexdata - Open Content - The searchable indexes below expose public domain ebooks, open access digital repositories, Wikipedia articles, and miscellaneous human-cataloged Internet resources.
  • CatalogWS: NCSU Libraries - A Web API for dynamically querying information from the NCSU Libraries Catalog.