Note: this is an adaptation of a write-up I did for work. Hope you enjoy it.
Java developers and aspiring architects
Well, I’ve been working with IBM’s content management product for a while now and I figured it was time to write up something useful for others. IBM Workplace Web Content Management (IBM WCM) comes bundled with IBM WebSphere Portal V6 and can be used to manage web content in and out of a Portal. One of the primary features that persuade organizations to use IBM WCM is its security model, so I decided to write up a quick, high-level explanation of how the security model works.
At my company, we use Sharepoint 2007 for our internal intranet. It’s a pretty good off-the-shelf product overall, but in typical M$ fashion, the rich-text editing capabilities in MOSS 2007 are Internet Explorer-only. The thing is, at a technology company, a lot of users tend to use other better browsers, like Opera or Firefox. In fact, a lot of the folks I work with have Macs and use Safari.
Hopefully everyone enjoyed the Feed Your Brain presentation I gave today on The Semantic Web and MicroFormats.
Here are the slides from the presentation: The Semantic Web: Real World Examples with MicroFormats
As promised, here are the GreaseMonkey scripts I whipped up:
Obviously, these are as-is with no guarantee they won’t blow your machine up.
I finally took the time to get WordPress up and running. I plan to post here once a week, or maybe every other week or so.
I also plan to use it to announce work and life events that folks might be interested in. For example, we just set a date for the Feed Your Brain presentation I’ll be giving at work, titled ‘The Semantic Web: Real World Examples with MicroFormats’. We’re shooting for 9/27/07 for now.
Here’s the intro. for the presentation:
According to Tim Berners-Lee, the Semantic Web is the future of the World Wide Web - and he’d be the guy to ask; he invented it in 1989 and is currently the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (www.w3.org). Today, there is a slew of activity toward building Berner-Lee’s vision, including development of new technologies as well as new ways to use old ones.
Join in for a clear description of the Semantic Web and patterns for using existing technology to build semantic applications. We’ll start with the basics, looking at semantic markup. We’ll also look at the MicroFormats project (microformats.org) and how this community has had tremendous success in realizing the semantic web.
I’m excited about giving the presentation, so I hope we have a good turn-out.