A new FOAF homepage and user site is on its way... (and a new spec!).
The FOAF Project homepage is now at http://www.foaf-project.org/.
There is plenty of work to do on the new site, but now seems as good a time as any to cut across to the new version. The old FOAF homepage had a (somewhat random) collection of links and information on FOAF. A version of that is included in this 'getting started' article; for more comprehensive links to FOAF-related materials, see the collaboratively maintained FoafProject wiki site.
The current www.foaf-project.org site is pretty minimalistic. Nicole Sullivan has been working on some ideas for a more complete FOAF site. One of the things we need to figure out before doing that is a sensible balance between fairly accessible end-user materials (www.foaf-project.org) and the more obscure technical and developer content familiar from rdfweb.org.
The basic recipe for getting started with FOAF is as follows. First, you'll need a basic idea of what FOAF is, and is for. Short version: FOAF is all about creating and using machine-readable homepages that describe people, the links between them and the things they create and do.
For a more in depth version, the evolving FOAF Specification should be the authoritative reference, accompanied by less technical documents such as Edd Dumbill's FOAF intro article. The FOAF FAQ has links to some other media articles, including 'Metadata Mark II' in Web Monkey Magazine which describes FOAF alongside some related efforts.
If you're still interested, the best thing to do next is to make yourself a FOAF file. For this, most people use Leigh Dodd's handy foaf-a-matic tool, which is now available in eight (8!) languages. So make yourself a FOAF file, save it online somewhere, and add an auto-discovery link to it from your homepage so that machines have an easy way to find it. If you mess about with the FOAF markup, eg. to add your own extensions, the W3C RDF Validator is a useful tool for checking the file is still in legal RDF/XML format.
Then what? Well hopefully your data will start to show up in the various FOAF navigators and aggregators, some links to which are included in this article...
Here are a few useful links relating to FOAF: FOAFNaut (and SVG-based navigator), FOAF Explorer (server-based navigator using XSLT bookmarklet), eikeon.com FOAF Web View (another server-based navigator, written in Python), JabFOAF (utilities for integrating FOAF and Jabber).
Some more Links and background... this list is not complete, but repeated here so I can reference it from the new more minimalist FOAF site.
Well, this is all very good and such, but I don't see why Movable Type Bloggers would worry about getting more FOAF. Isn't being a Mac user supposed to protect you from this sort of acronym?
I mean, correct me if I'm wrong because I'm still heterosexual and haven't made "the switch."
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Here's a small tutorial on FOAF for beginners: http://www.bulat.f0.ru/tutorials/FOAFtut/eng/
Great idea, i will work on my new site to fit it into FOAF!
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C/O Apt. #1-2829 Glenayr Drive
Nanaimo, BC
V9S?3S7
(250) 758 6329
Objective
Looking for full time employment in the kitchen where I can utilize my skills and abilities.
Summary of Qualifications
Gradute of Malaspina University-College in Culinary Arts (2001)
Work History from present time back
Sodexho
Mount Royal College Calgary Alta.
September 2003 –present time
Kananaskis Delta Lodge
Breakfast Cook
Stewarding Dept.
October 2002-May 2003
Camp Wahanowin
Cooked three meals a day and snacks for 1000 kids + 250 staff members
In charge of stocking and maintaining coolers, freezers, and pantry
In charge of cooking Special meals for campers with allergies eg: celiac, diabetes, etc.
Gained experience in Kosher cooking methods and handling of food products
(April 2002- September 2002)
SHORT ORDER COOK. ABC Restaurant Nanaimo BC. Salesclerk.Token Book Exchange Nanaimo BC.
Janitor.Macdonald's Nanaimo BC. Labourer / DriverIsland Highway Services Nanaimo BC.
Food Processor / Warehouse PersonSt. Jean's CanneryNanaimo BC.
Excellent customer services skills.
Knowledge of retail Business Operation.
Five years experience in Food Processing.
Dependable & Reliable work well alone or as part of a team.
Demonstrated Skills and Abilities
Buffet experience gained at Kananaskis
Set up the grill
Prep for next day and all other jobs required by the position of Breakfast Cook
Deli experience in Calgary at Mount Royal College
Food Processing
· Cleaned Readied and Processed Food.
· Stocked shelves & categorized merchandise in warehouse.
· Drove forklift and delivered merchandise to retail outlets and cold storage.
· Cleaned up area and readied for next day operation.
· Work and clean the grill, griddle on line.
· Wash dishes and clean kitchen and public areas during graveyard shift.
· Cook at ABC Restaurant to order on line as a short order cook.
· Able to do Breakfast, lunch or dinner.
Retail / Hospitality
· Performed cashier duties for cash sales and counted receipts at cash out time.
· Opened & closed retail store in a responsible manner by arming security devices.
· Displayed new merchandise and moved shelves when needed.
· Unpacked priced and stocked new stock.
Labouring work
· Competently drove heavy machinery trucks.
· Loaded & unloaded in specific areas
Volunteer Work
· Salvation Army food bank ? six weeks.
Education & Training
Ø Graduated from Malaspina University-College in Culinary Arts- 2001
· Graduated from Nanaimo District Secondary School, Nanaimo BC.
· Gained Corporal with the Canadian Scottish Regiment B Coy, Nanaimo BC.
· Attended First Aid Level Three.
· Food Thermal Processing and Evaluation Course.
· Food Safe Certificate, 1997.
· Superhost Certificate, 1997.
· Attended 4H Club & gained awards, Nanaimo BC.
References
• Available upon request
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Posted by: Jerman on January 20, 2004 08:27 AMThe Stack is just what it sounds like: a tower of things that starts at the bottom and builds upward as it goes. In our case, the things in the stack are called "Stack Frames" or just "frames". We start with one stack frame at the very bottom, and we build up from there.
Posted by: Barbara on January 20, 2004 08:27 AMEach Stack Frame represents a function. The bottom frame is always the main function, and the frames above it are the other functions that main calls. At any given time, the stack can show you the path your code has taken to get to where it is. The top frame represents the function the code is currently executing, and the frame below it is the function that called the current function, and the frame below that represents the function that called the function that called the current function, and so on all the way down to main, which is the starting point of any C program.
Posted by: Nathaniel on January 20, 2004 08:28 AMTo address this issue, we turn to the second place to put variables, which is called the Heap. If you think of the Stack as a high-rise apartment building somewhere, variables as tenets and each level building atop the one before it, then the Heap is the suburban sprawl, every citizen finding a space for herself, each lot a different size and locations that can't be readily predictable. For all the simplicity offered by the Stack, the Heap seems positively chaotic, but the reality is that each just obeys its own rules.
Posted by: Chroseus on January 20, 2004 08:28 AMWe can see an example of this in our code we've written so far. In each function's block, we declare variables that hold our data. When each function ends, the variables within are disposed of, and the space they were using is given back to the computer to use. The variables live in the blocks of conditionals and loops we write, but they don't cascade into functions we call, because those aren't sub-blocks, but different sections of code entirely. Every variable we've written has a well-defined lifetime of one function.
Posted by: Jennette on January 20, 2004 08:29 AMThat gives us a pretty good starting point to understand a lot more about variables, and that's what we'll be examining next lesson. Those new variable types I promised last lesson will finally make an appearance, and we'll examine a few concepts that we'll use to organize our data into more meaningful structures, a sort of precursor to the objects that Cocoa works with. And we'll delve a little bit more into the fun things we can do by looking at those ever-present bits in a few new ways.
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Posted by: Abacuck on January 20, 2004 08:31 AMEarlier I mentioned that variables can live in two different places. We're going to examine these two places one at a time, and we're going to start on the more familiar ground, which is called the Stack. Understanding the stack helps us understand the way programs run, and also helps us understand scope a little better.
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