A list of things I miss in CiteULike

AJCann posted a blog today about what he doesn’t like about Mendeley. Abhishek replied that he does not like people complain about one tool, instead of pointing out a good alternative. Mendeley has two alternatives, Zotero and CiteULike (there is also Connotea, but got behind in evolution). 2 minute read

The Molecular Chemometrics Principles #3: stand on shoulders

I have blogged about two Molecular Chemometrics principles so far: 1 minute read

The Molecular Chemometrics Principles #2: be clear in what you mean

I noted earlier this week that [d]uring the week [in Oxford ], someone (name and address is know at the editorial office) commented on the fact that my blog posts are somewhat difficult to follow; that is, it’s often not clear why I am posting what I am posting. This triggered the start of a series of principles in the field I coined Molecular Chemometrics, and the promise that I will try to indicate in each blog post to which of these principles it relates. Just to put things in a bit more perspective; to make a bit more clear why I am blogging about that bit; just to be clear in what I mean. 2 minute read

XHTML+RDFa: chemical examples

Steffen asked me if I could also provide a few examples on how to actually put RDF triples in the HTML, as the template I gave yesterday is a mere empty canvas to draw the triples on. There are actually various examples in my blog, which I will summarize here. 4 minute read

XHTML+RDFa Template

There was some more discussion on machine readability of notebooks again, something I have blogged about for a long time now. less than 1 minute read

The Molecular Chemometrics Principles #1: access to data

The meetings in and around Oxford were great! I already wrote that the Predictive Toxicology workshop was brilliant (see Oxford… #1 ) and Oxford… #2 ), but I also very, very much enjoyed meeting up with Dan and Nico! During the week, someone (name and address is know at the editorial office) commented on the fact that my blog posts are somewhat difficult to follow; that is, it’s often not clear why I am posting what I am posting. 2 minute read

Cleaner CDK Code #8: the Java Naming Conventions and Camel Casing

Another simple approach to make your code more readable, is to adhere to the Java naming conventions. They prescribe that variables start with a lower case characters, as do method names. Class and interfaces, however, start with upper case characters. By all using these same conventions, we need to learn only one scheme and can more easily recognize what are variables, methods and classes. Have a look at these naming conventions by Oracle and the concept of Camel Casing, heavily used in Java. 1 minute read