There’s been a lot of development on Construct over the last few months which will result in a couple of releases before the end of the year. The most recent update, (v0.8a) saw a restructuring of the data store around named graphs, and major improvements to performance (both in speed and memory consumption) throughout the framework. We are aiming for a final release of version 0.8 in late October, with remaining work focused on improving the installation procedure. Once complete, the next release (v0.9) will see the codebase becoming fully OSGi compliant in addition to improving support for cross-subnet communication.
Spurred by my belief in the Construct Infrastructure I took my official t-shirt with me in my backpack. In my role as Construct evangalist I’ll document the far reaching effects we’re having through a few photos. First is Rio de Janero in Brazil:
Provided my bag doesn’t get stolen there will be more to follow.
Part 2
And here it is. On Monday (8/9) I deployed Construct 0.8a to Machu Picchu in Peru. The Inkas love it. When I left the Inka chief was in deep discussion about named graph support and php-based web mashups over a hot cup of coca tea:
Steve, an original member of the Construct Dev team, left the Systems Research Group last week. He’s off to get hitched and travel the world - so we won’t hold it against him!
As part of his leaving presents we made up this rather fetching (even if we do say so ourselves) T-Shirt, so that he can spread the word of Construct to the world.
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Steve, an original member of the Construct Dev team, left the