Archive for December, 2008
Advanced Sparql endpoint
Before detailing the features of this project, I will introduce quickly what is web semantic. If you already know what it is you can jump directly to the third paragraph. I will simply use the first sentence of Wikipedia’s page as I find it simple to understand and clear.
The Semantic Web is an evolving extension of the World Wide Web in which the semantics of information and services on the web is defined, making it possible for the web to understand and satisfy the requests of people and machines to use the web content.
Following this idea, some websites started to publish semantic data a little while ago. From all the initiatives, we can note a project called DBpedia which aims to be the semantic version of Wikipedia. Of course many technologies were developed to encode and query all these new information.
Panodoc
Panodoc is the name given to an application I developed during my final year placement at the university in France. It enables to model a computer and phone network. Once the model is finished, the application enables to :
- Browse: by buildings, floors, rooms. You can see computers and phones of a room and to which patch panel they are linked.
- Search: To access directly a specific device in the model
- Generate reports: in Excel format. The reports can be generated from multiple points of view (server room, patch panel, computer’s room)
Joomla! Developer Team and Bug Squad
I am an active member of the Joomla! project, an open source CMS. I joined the project in 2007 as a Google Summer of Code student and later on joined 2 of the teams:
- Development Working Group: in charge of the release of new versions
- Bug Squad: in charge of the maintenance of supported versions
Summer of Code 2007 – Geo Component
In 2007, in participated to the Google Summer of Code as a student. I was selected by the open source project Joomla! for developing a set of tools which will turn it into a Geographical Content Management System. The idea of the project came when I was working in GIS in the Ordnance Survey.
I had the chance to have Andrew Eddie as mentor. Andrew is a core member of the project and was the lead developer of Mambo before the fork. Despite the fact we are living at opposite position on Earth, which is not the best to communicate, I thank him for his support and help during the project.
