This week saw the sad news that the UK office responsible for development of the music score-writing software Sibelius is to be closed down. Maintenance of the software will be moved elsewhere, at least according to its owners Avid, the former video-editing software company that expanded madly throughout the professional audio and video world during the 2000s and… Continue reading Hyvästi, Sibelius
Category: Code
SoundSoftware 2012 Workshop
Yesterday the SoundSoftware project, which I help to run, hosted the SoundSoftware 2012 Workshop at Queen Mary. This was a one-day workshop about working practices for researchers developing software and experiences they have had in software work, with an eye to subjects of interest to audio and music researchers. You can read about the workshop… Continue reading SoundSoftware 2012 Workshop
“Various nifty functions”
Further to the code-literate judge in Oracle v Google, via Groklaw we now have his ruling that the Java APIs are not copyrightable. It's an exceptionally clear piece of work and a good introduction to the subject. I certainly couldn't have written a better technical summary, although I'm sure there are bits that a non-programmer… Continue reading “Various nifty functions”
Small conclusions about APIs and testing
In my previous post I explained a small but significant API change for v0.9 of the Dataquay library. Although there was nothing very deep about this change or its causes, I found it interesting partly because I had used a partly test-driven process to evolve the original API and I felt there may be a… Continue reading Small conclusions about APIs and testing
Details of the Dataquay v0.9 API changes
Dataquay hasn't seen a great deal of use yet. I've used it in a handful of personal projects that follow the same sort of model as the application it was first designed for, and that's all. But I've recently started to adapt it to a couple of programs whose RDF usage follows more traditional Linked… Continue reading Details of the Dataquay v0.9 API changes
Dataquay
Dataquay is my C++ library for RDF datastore management using the Qt toolkit. It's a library for people who happen to be writing C++ applications using Qt and who are interested in managing data that fit well into a subject-predicate-object graph model (as in the Linked Data paradigm, for example). It uses Qt classes and… Continue reading Dataquay
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