I've produced another new FOAF utility which will hopefully be of interest to Advogato users: Advogato to FOAF will generate a FOAF document directly from your Advogato profile. All you need to supply is your nick and your email.

Read more about the utility in this blog entry.

Whilst tinkering with various APIs, I've whipped a tool to extract RDF metadata from Microsoft Office documents.

You can download it, and read about it in detail on this blog entry: More, More, MORE

Posted the first beta of the FOAF-a-Matic today. Yay! You can grab it from here if you want to take a look (requires Java)

I'm quite happy with the code. As I've iteratively added features its been refactored quite mercilessly. The test suite is embarrassingly small at the moment, but I plan to remedy that ASAP.

I've put up a project page for my FOAF editor. Its basically just an intended feature list and some screenshots at the moment. I want to do a bit more coding before I release my first beta.

Comments very welcome.

Update

I decided to register the FOAF-a-Matic as an Advogato project. Why not?

There's no license info there yet, because I'd like to try generating one from the Creative Commons. But basically it'll be Public Domain. I'd just like to be acknowledged as the author.

Now to get the code into a releasable format. I've been quite rigorous, trying to keep the Javadoc etc up to date as I go (rather than fill it in afterwards which I never do otherwise.

Now that my workload is easing a bit I've started tinkering with code again. Specifically I've been taking another look at the Java Swing API and thinking about how to build scriptable application frameworks.

At present I've got a simple framework which embeds the Bean Scripting Framework (to provide the scripting support) and a generic "service" component model to handle the application internals. Makes for loose coupling. Planning to open source this eventually.

I've also been looking at Thinlets. I've documented by first impressions in the Notes on Thinlets page on my Wiki. I'm using the framework to build a FOAF editor which is progressing quite nicely. Hooked up the interface to the application model this morning at its all working fine. Some more code to write, testing, and some icons to draw before its finished though.