Re: 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/