Social. For:krcadinac. For:nkol. Rdf. Price Waterhouse Coopers bullish on the Semantic Web. Tim Finin, 8:57am 29 May 2009 Price Waterhouse Coopers is one of the largest “professional services” organization and has always been strong on technology consulting and advice.
The Spring issue of their quarterly Technology Forecast journal focuses on the Semantic Web. This is from the table of contents. Keyboardr. Yahoo Placemaker: Extract Location Data from Any Text. At Where 2.0 today, Yahoo announced a new product in its already impressive lineup of geo technologies: Placemaker.
Placemaker is a new open API from Yahoo that helps developers to make their applications and data sets location-aware. Developers can feed Placemaker any kind of structured and unstructured data, including feeds and web pages, and the app will analyze the text and extract location data from it. This, could, for example, allow news organizations to easily tag their content with location data and create hyper-local products based on this data. We talked to Tyler Bell, the product lead for the Yahoo Geo Technology Group, yesterday, and in the interview, he stressed that Placemaker, which will be open and freely available today, should be considered a 'geo-enrichment tool.' 12 Unit Testing Tips for Software Engineers - ReadWriteWeb.
Unit Testing is one of the pillars of Agile Software Development.
First introduced by Kent Beck, unit testing has found its way into the hearts and systems of many organizations. Unit tests help engineers reduce the number of bugs, hours spent on debugging, and contribute to healthier, more stable software. In this post we look at a dozen unit testing tips that software engineers can apply, regardless of their programming language or environment.