Re: [PHP] the state of the PHP community

Larry Garfield wrote:
> On Thursday 29 July 2010 02:07:58 am you wrote:
> 
>> Hi Larry,
>>
>> Thanks for taking the time to reply, a solid insightful one at that -
>> kudos +1 for your opensource drupal efforts!
>>
>> Good of you to mention, and indeed to see, Palinter grasping opensource
>> with two hands, this is certainly a very credible approach to business
>> which deservedly reaps good rewards; testament to this is Day Software
>> (including of course Roy T. Fielding) which it seems is just about to be
>> bought by Adobe, a big +1 for this approach; and one I hope to see more of.
>>
>> With regards drupal development, there is a rather interesting chap
>> called Stéphane Corlosquet [ http://drupal.org/user/52142 ] who does a
>> fair bit of committing and really pushes the semantic web / linked data
>> side of drupal - definitely worth keeping tabs on.
> 
> Oh I'm familiar with Scor.  I've talked with him before about a project I'm 
> working on that is using the amorphous, ill-defined beast known as RDF. :-)
> 
> --Larry Garfield

Great re scor!

RDF's trouble is RDF/XML - it frankly sucks. N3 or Turtle makes 
everything much clearer to grasp and indeed read, it's really simple at 
heart yet universally powerful.

I'd recommend this little presentation [1] which covers the web from 
inception through future from TimBL and shows where all the semantic 
technologies fit in, and the benefits gained. 'tis a very good overall 
picture imho, recommended on it's own merits not just because it 
includes rdf in a few slides.

[1] http://www.w3.org/2007/Talks/1211-whit-tbl/