Other documents
Various miscellanea. The purl.org references are
the persistent URLs which are the preferred references for these
pages, in preference to the URLs which they resolve to.
- `Data' is a singular noun. It is a grammatical and
stylistic error to use `data' as a plural.
http://purl.org/nxg/note/singular-data
- Notes on how to create conference posters using LaTeX.
http://purl.org/nxg/note/posters.
- OSX and the restFP/saveFP problem: a description of the
restFP/saveFP problem when doing mixed-language
development using Fortran on OSX, along with some non-voodoo
fixes.
http://purl.org/nxg/note/restfp
- Intelligent access to foreign data: The obvious, and
current, solution to the problem of exchanging data
structures is to convert data into and out of a consensus
model, but this is now labouring under the burdens of
complication and often unhappy compromises. These are some
notes on a possible alternative approach. The notes are rather
rough, but I expect to tighten them up in the near future, so
think of this as a sort of pre-preprint.
- CVS Primer: a fast introduction, aimed at those who want to
do basic work with a repository, rather than those who want
the full story. Includes pointers to other
documentation.
http://purl.org/nxg/note/cvsprimer
- RDF Introduction: Introduction to RDF focusing on
practicalities rather than the computer-theoretic underlying
ideas. The latter are attractive, but not the first thing
many folk now want to know about. The introduction
concentrates on astronomy, though will, I hope, be useful in
other contexts.
- XML Overview: introduction to XML for techies.
Presentation at the Starlink System Managers' Meeting,
Peterborough, 2002 October 29.
- Glasgow
University Coalition for Justice not War
Older material. These are definitely long in the tooth (the
first one talks of XML as `coming soon'!), but might be a curiousity.