Fri, 20 May, 2005
Visit to Tokyo and Beijing
I had the pleasure of having a trip to Japan and China again. Well, most of the time was
on work, but I did have the opportunity to play tourist, too. So I made some pictures,
of course both in Tokyo and in Beijing (some of those photos are old, look for the ones in May 2005).
Here is the one I am proud of 
Thu, 19 May, 2005
Small update on sparql-p
I have made a small update on sparql-p: Version 2.02. There is practically no functional change (except for adding the ‘SELECT *’ shorthand and thereby getting the ‘ask’ method right); the main change is that the documentation has changed. I switched to epydoc, which gives a much better way of documenting the code with a javadoc-like output. That meant to restructure the interface description in the code, but it is (in my view) worth it.
B.t.w.: I was at the WWW 2005 Conference last week and it is interesting to see that there are already a couple of SPARQL implementations out there, most of them (probably) more complete than mine (first of all, they usually contain a SPARQL Language parser which I was always lazy to do . And people begin to use it for various purposes. That when the specification is not even in Last Call yet! Good…
