Wednesday, November 20, 2002

AOP and RDF. Just a little note: coincidentally AOP and RDF work very well together. Both are about attaching stuff to object identifiers. In the case of AOP it's about attaching code, and in the case of RDF it's about attaching data. I.e. the perfect way to store AOP objects is as RDF tuples, where each namespace represents an AOP "extension"(/Java interface). [Random thoughts] I've been reading articles about AOP, especially AspectForJ and it looks very seducing. I agree with the intuition that it is in principle similar to RDF. Having to ability to influence (wether adding code or describing) something from the outside is very powerful and fascinating. 6:02:02 PM    comment []

To fix or not to fix?. It's not worth spending an engineering day to fix a problem that wastes 30 seconds of someone's time once a month. This quote comes from Joel's latest column and it's music to my ears... [Otaku, Cedric's weblog] I just suggested not to fix a bug 5 minutes ago: I'll send this to my team as a follow up :-)   5:41:48 PM    comment []

Visual Thesaurus: Applet of the Week. <P> What can I say. It's just stunningly cool. Run it. My favorite applet of all time, I think. <P> Right now, I'm trying to figure out: if every person is separated by at most 6 degrees from everyone else, and if every film start is separated by at most 6 "film degrees" from Kevin Bacon, is there a similar thing for words in a thesaurus? <P> For example: Can I reach any word in the dictionary in 12 or fewer steps from "egg&am... [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] cool indeed ! 5:39:17 PM    comment []