{"id":2085,"date":"2011-03-22T12:15:26","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T17:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/?p=2085"},"modified":"2023-12-20T16:25:14","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T21:25:14","slug":"getting-the-rdf-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/2011\/03\/22\/getting-the-rdf-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting the RDF Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned last time, <a href=\"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/2011\/03\/17\/prior-art-and-rdfd\/\">I want to extend the Thunderbird address book to support Ubuntu One contacts synchronization<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But there&#8217;s a problem:\u00a0 currently, the address book relies on something called RDF, which prevents me from extending the address books outside of C++.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So why not just write it in C++?&#8221;, I hear you cry!<\/p>\n<p>The answer:\u00a0 because <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Thunderbird:Thoughts_on_Removing_RDF\">Thunderbird has been trying to shake RDF like a bad cold<\/a>.\u00a0 A developer named Joey Minta <a href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=420506\">officially declared war<\/a> on RDF in March of 2008.\u00a0 The campaign to rid Thunderbird of RDF is almost complete.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;d hate to damage the war effort by adding more RDF code to Thunderbird.<\/p>\n<p>The solution?\u00a0 I have to finish what Joey Minta started &#8211; at least for the address book.\u00a0 I have to replace all RDF-dependant code with something better &#8211; something extendable.<\/p>\n<p><em>Then<\/em> I can get down to work on the Ubuntu One sync.<\/p>\n<p>So saddle up.\u00a0 We have to hunt this RDF bum down.\u00a0 For justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned last time, I want to extend the Thunderbird address book to support Ubuntu One contacts synchronization. But there&#8217;s a problem:\u00a0 currently, the address book relies on something called RDF, which prevents me from extending the address books outside of C++. &#8220;So why not just write it in C++?&#8221;, I hear you cry! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[861,862],"tags":[934,930,935,911,35,936,867,705,931],"class_list":["post-2085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mozilla-2","category-thunderbird","tag-address-book","tag-canonical","tag-contacts","tag-messaging","tag-mozilla","tag-rdf","tag-thunderbird-2","tag-ubuntu","tag-ubuntu-one"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prmTy-xD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2085"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2094,"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085\/revisions\/2094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}