Monthly Archives: October 2009

Impedence Mismatch

Posted on October 27, 2009 by Stuart

Data formats are annoying. As much as half the code in any large software project consists of translating from one data representation — objects, SQL tables, files, XML, RDF, JSON, YAML, CSV, Protocol Buffers, Avro, XML-RPC — to another. Each … Continue reading →

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Generating Clojure from an Ontology

Posted on October 8, 2009 by Stuart

I’ve been fascinated with RDF for years, but I always end up frustrated when I try to use it. How do you read/write/manipulate RDF data in code? Sure, there are lots of libraries, but they all represent RDF data as … Continue reading →

Posted in Programming | Tagged Clojure, Java, OWL, RDF | 4 Comments

Clojure+Hadoop Slides

Posted on October 2, 2009 by Stuart

My Hadoop World NYC talk went off well; here are my slides [PDF]

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