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QueSucede.com is a CMS based on the concept of topic maps. My name is Brett Kromkamp and I developed the actual topic map engine back-end and front-end web application myself, scratching the proverbial itch and also providing an example of eating one's own dog food... I used to have a blog, but I prefer a topic map-based approach for organizing my thoughts, ideas and projects instead of the simple chronological methodology that blogs force upon you.

QueSucede.com is hosted on a 256 slice over at Slicehost running Ubuntu. Furthermore, the application is built on top of a typical LAMP-stack in conjunction with the PHP Zend Framework. On the client-side, the JavaScript library of choice is jQuery.

This website is still under active development and a lot of functionality is still pending implementation.

Projects

Mobile (Android):

• NotesMappr is PolishedCode's semantic note taking app for Google’s Android platform. In other words, NotesMappr (see screen shot, below) is note taking that fits your brain.

Main benefits

1. NotesMappr can be thought of as the textual equivalent of mind maps and/or concept maps. In a nutshell, NotesMappr's powerful underlying data structure, topic maps, makes it possible to link your notes in any way imaginable.
2. Furthermore, NotesMappr's integration with Freebase makes it very easy to complement and enhance your own notes with comprehensive and reliable external articles and (associated) images.
3. Finally, a set of notes in and of itself is a valuable thing. However, said set of notes becomes more valuable if the notes themselves are related in an appropriate manner. In addition, context enables both easy and quick discovery of information saving you time. Furthermore, context enables you to expand your knowledge without the risk of your knowledge becoming disjointed or fragmented.

Main features

1. NotesMappr provides you with both the ability to establish meaningful relationships between notes and subsequently navigate said notes in a very straightforward manner.
2. NotesMappr enables you to complement and enhance your own notes with articles and images from Freebase, an open Creative Commons licensed repository of structured data of almost 22 million entities.
3. In addition to (formal) associations, NotesMappr also features "WikiWords" (words with multiple capital letters in the body of a note) to create and link notes within their context. NotesMappr automatically turns said WikiWords into links to other notes - just tap a link to create the new note.

Now, imagine studying with this app at your disposal. Or researching. Or generally just compiling notes on whatever topic that interests you. Just think for a moment how useful this app would be. What are you waiting for? Get NotesMappr for your Android device, now. It’s free.

Miscellaneous legacy programming projects (with source code):

• Eight-puzzle Java implementation - Classical Artificial Intelligence (AI); representing the search space of problem-solving tasks as networks.
• Python implementation of a virtual (stack-based) machine (VM) with CPU, I/O and memory, including a 'compiler'.
• Python 2 layered [3D] tree implementation and Python 3 tree implementation.
• Agile software development models written in Python 3.
• Conway's Game of Life implemented as a Java applet.

Web:

• QueSucede.com (the site you're currently browsing, built on top of the CrystalMind topic map engine).

Rich Internet Applications (RIA):

• Adobe AIR application called Topics and accompanying web site PolishedCode.com. Check-out how things are progressing at polishedcode on Twitter or visit the PolishedCode blog.
• Google Web Toolkit (GWT) implementation of Topics. For an overview and to check out how things are progressing, take a look at the project's topic: Google Web Toolkit (GWT) implementation of Topics.

Experiments

JavaScript and Canvas

• HTML5, JavaScript and Canvas - Conway's Game of Life.

Tutorials

Google Android

• Conway's Game of Life for Google Android tutorial.

Interests

Concepts:

• Topic maps
• Domain Specific Languages (DSLs)
• Customer Development and Business Model Generation.

Data visualization:

• Processing
• UUorld
• Kap Lab

Knowledge management:

• Creating and discovering
• Sharing and learning
• Organizing and managing

Conceptual frameworks:

• Problem solving
• Decision making
• Scenario planning

Marketing / Business:

• Internet marketing
• Lean Startup
• Demographics
• Segmentation
• Cluster analysis

3D graphics:

• Blender 3D

Personal:

• Principles of Life

Languages, frameworks, concepts and miscellaneous bookmarks

Legacy applications and web sites:

• Legacy apps

del.icio.us:

• brettkromkamp

GitHub repository:

• bkromkamp

Programming languages:

• Python
• ActionScript 3
• Scala
• Groovy
• Ruby
• JavaScript
• Clojure

Frameworks and platforms:

• Play Framework
• Zend Framework
• Adobe Flex
• Adobe AIR
• Ramaze
• wxPython
• jQuery
• Google Android
• Google Web Toolkit

Operating systems:

Ubuntu Linux

Survey - ProjectMappr

ProjectMappr is an application that enables the user to both quickly and easily create and subsequently visualize, explore and extend a network of related topics.

The application enables the user to harness both content and context to make the use of knowledge much easier contributing to the increase of contextual intelligence.

Features include:

• Visual exploration of the (topic map) graph contributing to the discovery of information.
• Ability to add arbitrary data to topics, including (but not limited to): text, images, PDF files, videos, Twitter searches, meta data, etcetera.
• The ability to create semantically rich relationships between topics.
• Program data is stored locally making it unnecessary to have an Internet connection to work with the application.
• Automatically build context around user interactions, e.g., topics are optionally linked within a timeline.
• Automatic categorization and self-organization of topics by means of tagging.

Target users:

• Students.
• Knowledge workers.
• Researchers.
• Hobbyists.

Basically anyone that needs to map one or more areas of domain knowledge ensuring that the appropriate information can be easily found and extended within the context of said information can be considered a target user.

Interested in ProjectMappr? Please fill out the (the very short) survey. Thanks in advance :-)