Steve Flinter’s blog

I mentioned earlier that only one of the candidates (Eric Byrne of Labour) standing in the Dublin South Central constituency in the recent General Election was an active blogger.
Well, it turns out that Byrne just missed out on the fifth seat by a whisker. The incumbent Aengus Ó Snodaigh pipped him by a mere [...]

Read/WriteWeb has just posted an entry about The Semantic Technology Conference that has just finished in San Jose, California.
Looks like the DERI guys were well represented at the event.
It’s a sure sign that things are about to take off in the semantic web world when you have plenty of start-ups working in the space. [...]

In my recent post on the Dublin South Central election, I provided a URL for Tony McDermott’s website. A comment I received pointed out that the correct URL is http://www.tonymcdermott.ie/.
That makes a lot more sense. However, when one does a Google search for Tony McDermott this site doesn’t show up in the first [...]

The general election in Ireland has been called for May 24 – a little less than three weeks from now.
I live in the Dublin South Central constituency – a five seater. Four of the sitting TDs (MPs) are running again, with only Gay Mitchell bowing out.
Here’s the full list of candidates, linked with the [...]

Thanks to this entry from Aidan Finn, who incidentally is now working in the SFI funded DERI, I finally got around to putting up a simple FOAF file on my blog.
Adian’s post is pretty clear, but there are a few minor adjustments necessary to get it to work in Typo:

The foaf.rdf file should be created [...]

Hmmm, it appears that the Ghostpaper theme that I’m using for this blog doesn’t show articles when you select them by their permalink.
I’ll have to investigate. In the meantime, I’m switching back to the default Azure theme.

I wrote previously about the Ideas Programme run by the ERC that I was briefly responsible for. The deadline for the Starter Grants has just passed, and we have been informed that the ERC received a total of 9,167 applications from across Europe, of which 126 were Irish.
Given that only 200—250 grants will be [...]

As I mentioned in a previous post, a new version of Typo is available. I upgraded this evening, and here’s the steps that I followed.

Check out the latest version from the SVN repository:

$ svn co http://svn.typosphere.org/typo/trunk typo-4.1.1

Copy over my old .htaccess file:

$ cp ~/typo-4.0.3/public/.htaccess ~/typo-4.1.1/public

Copy over my old database.yml:

$ cp ~/typo-4.0.3/config/database.yml ~/typo-4.1.1/config/database.yml

Update the database schema

mysql> [...]