This is a public chat log generated from the #semsol IRC channel.
15:28:01
scor, good to see you're going to that iks workshop
15:31:38
their "the LAMP stack is not well suited for using semantic web technologies" assumption is apparently wrong
15:37:27
iks?
15:38:03
http://www.iks-project.eu/
15:50:23
hey bengee! yeah, managed to work around my schedule at the last minute :)
15:51:57
bengee: have they said that anywhere?
15:52:14
bengee: note they use Drupal on http://www.iks-project.eu/
15:52:42
on the "challenge" page
15:53:46
they apparently don't know that we have been working on that stuff for years already
15:53:48
bengee: they probably see the semantic web as a monolithic piece of software :)
15:56:19
you should add your modules to their site ;)
15:56:59
bengee: :D
15:57:39
I'm not use to this kind of LAMP criticism, I suppose you have had arguments on that in the past
15:57:47
bengee: are you also going to IKS?
15:58:08
I'm not going, no
15:58:15
maybe it's just the wording
15:58:33
they seem to actually target the LAMP stack
16:01:31
bengee: they seem to talk about bridging...
16:01:38
drupal was still a hot topic at the nyc meetup group, btw. they were still talking about your presentation
16:02:03
build bridges between LAMP-based CMS and semantic web - build the same kind of bridges between Java-based CMS and the semantic web
16:02:19
bengee: lol. good to hear they got something out of it
16:02:37
I'm presenting in Toronto tonight
16:03:04
yeah, read the tweet. rock the house!
16:03:53
deri must have a huge travel budget ;)
16:04:28
bengee: no, it's just that I take the chance to present wherever I travel!
16:04:42
ah, good strategy :)
16:04:48
I just happen to be in Toronto for family vacation/work
16:05:12
ic
16:06:56
bengee: have you ever presented arguments on LAMP vs Java/other, or do you have pointers to arguments/slides I could use. (I'm used to see criticism from the java community, but having some arguments prepared would be good)
16:07:33
I mentioned a couple at nyc last week
16:07:57
mainly efficiency and mediation skills wrt to the developers
16:08:19
you'll have the php app up and running while java coders are still loading their class tree ;)
16:08:59
php is loosely typed and allows dynamic method calls which is very handy in the semweb context
16:10:49
(maybe there's an equivalent to $obj->$method_name() in java, not sure
16:10:51
the main argument against php is the shared-nothing architecture
16:10:52
in the semweb context, that is
16:11:03
where it makes sense to load a model into some app server's memory for quicker querying
16:11:22
bengee: ic
16:12:37
bengee: in contrast the SN arch is known to scale better right?
16:12:59
yeah, true
16:13:29
bengee: that works, thanks
16:14:17
once we have query federation, distributed small-ish RDF stores should enable large apps through composition
16:15:22
sure