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Building Competency in Semantic Web Technology

semanticuniverse.com

Web technologies need to be accessible to non-technical people as well as technical people. Among techies, the Semantic Web bears some similarity to a number of common technologies, including relational databases, XML, and Object-Oriented design. Many database engineers have gone so far as to invent RDF in one form or another.

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Which language should my startup use?

www.reincubate.com

page, can -- despite the occasional new release from Adobe -- be considered a dead language, with all that this entails (difficulty finding and retaining good developers, vendor lock-in, horrendous cost, poor support, porting nightmares, infrastructure constraints). Its a powerful object oriented language, and is effectively Open Source.

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What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup

www.kalzumeus.com

Rails allows XML documents to include YAML attributes. That decision has caused a bit of head scratching, since it seems like a curious choice for most programmers in the community, but be that as it may this allowed posting XML at Rails apps to be trivially exploited. February 1, 2013 at 5:59 am. #. January 31, 2013 at 12:18 pm. #.

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Bridging the Gap: How Semantic Web can move into the mainstream through SXSW

Austin Startup

Five years ago, the open-source Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) project was started to create software to enable a new type of wiki-based environment based on these principles. is admittedly an ill-defined term, but there’s general agreement that it represents numerous technologies that will make the web “smarter.&#

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

You need to hear this from someone who has used.Net extensively, and then happily walked away from it to go open source: You are a wanker. And before you say.net is only for windows, checkout https://github.com/mono , it’s not an open source application. It’s an *freaking open source*.net

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