Synchronizing RDF data from files with the ARC triple store

I have been playing with the excellent ARC framework for a small legal information project (more on that soon). I am beginning to think that many RDF usage scenarios involve data in files (stored in a file system) combined with a triple store that preferrably should be kept in sync with the files. Inspired by Niklas Lindström’s Oort I wrote a small plugin to do that in ARC. The plugin extends the ARC2_Store class with a sync_with_folder($path_to_folder) method....

February 14, 2008 · Peter Krantz

Intricacies of PHP compared to Ruby

Via Tim Bray’s blog I found zestyping’s “Why PHP should never be taught”. In it he provides some interesting PHP code that will be difficult for beginners to understand. 1 $a = 0; $b = "eggs"; $c = "spam"; yields: 1 2 3 4 5 6 a == b b != c a == c a == d b != d c != d (Please note that d hasn’t been defined)....

January 1, 2008 · Peter Krantz