Programming Language of the Month: Assembly Language

Kicking off a series of thoughts on programming languages.
Assembly language is slightly higher level than the raw 0’s and 1’s of machine code- there is the immediacy of cause-and-effect: write an instruction to set a bit on an output port and you can see the instruction being executed.

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Integrating OpenCalais with WordPress

OpenCalais (powered by Thomson Reuters) is an enabling technology for the semantic web (or Web 3.0 or something). I will express an interest – at the time of writing I am employed by Thomson Reuters. However, I’m trying out the OpenCalais web server to get some idea of how it …

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