RDFBeans framework (see “Simple RDF data binding“) is a Sourceforge project now:

http://rdfbeans.sourceforge.net

A large part of SW development is representing the information as RDF for persistence and interoperability. It’s usually done with lots of the glue code to map the programming object model to RDF triples and vice versa.

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What’s new in 1.3 version »

New version of SCAN Frequently Asked Questions page is available.

“How does SCAN help me?”, “Why should I use it?”, “Who are the users?”, “Why it is smart?”, “Can it replace a …?”, “What is autotagging?”, technical tips-n-tricks, development questions and a lot of other things you would want to know about Smart Content Aggregation & Navigation technology.

Read SCAN FAQ »

Along with lots of minor bugfixes and performance tweaks, SCAN 1.2 introduces few essential improvements, mainly in search experience and plugins management…

(Read more on SCAN website)

I started another blog here on Wordpress.com: Java AntiPatterns. It is created to be a “collection of bad practices” and short tips how to avoid them in everyday Java coding. The antipatterns are organized both by categories and by tags and some initial set is already on there. If I meet or remember another antipattern, I will post it to that blog.

I’m not thinking about it as of my personal stuff and welcome everyone to suggest new antipatterns and their solutions. if you want to post to that blog yourself, please contact me (you have to be a registered Wordpress user).

I’d like to announce that SCAN now is able to work with your email. The mail plugin released yesterday introduces new type of the locations for SCAN repository – mailbox locations.

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See what’s new in 1.1 version.

ViceVersa Technologies presents the first public release of SCAN (Smart Content Aggregation and Navigation) platform. SCAN is a personal Information Retrieval framework, combining search, text analysis, tagging and metadata functions to provide new user experience of desktop navigation and document management.

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If ClassLoader Delegation, though esoteric and counterintuitive, is an example of some design, there are some things in Java that are confusing and just poorly designed at once.

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