RDF is DOOMed and other links

• The Future of the World Wide Web, testimony of Sir Timothy Berners-Lee, via Seth Ladd. Some commentry by Nate Anderson.
• Peak Code "At some point, half of the total lines of code for that platform will be written. The further a platform gets past its peak, the less attractive adding new features to it becomes since there is less and less potential return on investment due to the dwindling number of programs that could benefit from the improvements."
• REST Issues, Real and Imagined False Choice: “High” vs. “Low” REST, Red Herring: The Evils of POST, Red Herring: URI Design, Red Herring: Cookies Are Bad and False Choice: Machines vs. People. Sure to be answered in, "REST Books Galore (Sam Ruby also mentions the recent flood of REST books).
• RDFRoom DOOM rendering of FOAF via Semantic Desktop Workshop wrapup
• What engineering has in common with manufacturing and why it matters "Engineering – software engineering in our case – is remarkably like manufacturing, once we shift to view the unvalidated decision as the unit of internal inventory."
• It’s Not RDF versus Microformats "If your world is limited to business cards, social events and reviews then I can see where you might favour expression in HTML. Humans want to read those things too. But the world is bigger than social networking and there are other types of first-class data that people want to exchange with one another."
• Ruby on Rails IDE comparison. Favours NetBeans.
• The State of Swing Mentions one of the small Java 6 enhancements, SwingWorker.