Weekly Journal

Week 6

June 27, 2014

I spent Sunday through Tuesday in Boston for the Liberty Mutual Leadership Forum and had a really nice time exploring the area, making new friends and learning more about what it's like to develop software in corporate America. It's a beautiful city and the weather was a great refresher from the Arizona heat but by the end of the trip I was ready to get back to work.

Our Fuseki SPARQL server is up and running with our Coursera RDF here on this very domain, feel free to query to your heart's desire.

I'm pretty new to full-stack web development so exploring the different frameworks available is fun. Unfortunately there isn't really a framework with official support for a triplestore database; plenty have been unofficially extended to support them however. Based on what I've seen, I'm leaning towards using Google App Engine with Java and Jena libraries to query / update our Fuseki server. I'll be testing that out this weekend (to make up for lost time in Boston). Here's a picture of Christian and I nerding out in the dark in the meantime.

-Sebastian