The next Central MD Semantic Web Meetup will be held at 6:00pm on Thursday, February 27, 2014 at Inovex Information Systems (7240 Parkway Dr., Suite 140, Hanover MD). Michael Grove, the Chief Software Architect at Clark & Parsia, will talk on their Stardog triple store technology. The meetup is a good way to meet and network with others working on or with semantic technologies in Maryland.

“Stardog Unleashed will provide some background on the motivation for building Stardog, as well a short review of its history and unique feature set We will also provide an overview and demo of Stardog Web; a Javascript framework for building web applications backed by semantic technologies.

Our speaker, Michael Grove, is the Chief Software Architect at Clark & Parsia, where he also serves as the lead developer of Stardog, the leader in RDF databases featuring fast query performance and unmatched OWL & SWRL support.

A graduate in Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park, Michael first got started with semantic technologies in 2002 as a research assistant under Dr. Jim Hendler at the University of Maryland with the MINDSWAP group. Before joining the team at Clark & Parsia, he worked at Fujitsu Research Labs as the lead developer for the Task Computing project, an effort bring the semantic web to pervasive computing environments.

Michael is also active in open source where he is a contributor to Pellet the leading OWL DL reasoner and maintains Empire, an implementation of JPA backed by semantic technologies. Additionally, he is contributor to the Sesame project and active on the Jena development list.”

It’s Tuesday which means that the Treehouse Show is back! In episode 79 of The Treehouse Show, Nick and Jason (@jseifer) talk about Front-End Guidelines, Sublime Text, Sass and Compass, and more. There’s also the usual roundup of horrible puns and bad jokes.

This Week’s Links

• Tmw-frontend-guidelines
• Sublimall
• Sache: Find Sass and Compass Extensions for your next project
• InstantClick – JS lib to make your website instant
• CSS A/Z
• Go ahead, with the Treehouse Show | Eight Arms, London
• Hemingway
• localForage by mozilla

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During the last week, multiple internships have been posted to UMBCworks for students like you! Check them out (plus many, many more opportunities) by logging in to UMBCworks today.

ID: 9263872 – Analyst (ICF International)

ID: 9253223 – Multiple Positions (Chimes)

ID: 9263864 – Consultant, Audio/Visual Projects (Actualize Consulting)

ID: 9255236 – Contracts Coordinator (Carahsoft Technology Corp)

ID: 9263219 – Day Program Facilitator (Way Station, Inc.)

ID: 9264030 – GIS Analyst (Maryland Department of Planning)

ID: 9263962 – Instructional Designer (Technical Resources International Inc.)

ID: 9259090 – Marketing Generalist-Entry-Level (Carahsoft Technology Corp)

ID: 9264013 – Trial Presentation Specialist (MGM Trial Services, Inc.)

ID: 9263875 – Support Specialist (Finalsite)

ID: 9264094 – Wage and Hour Investigator (United States Department of Labor)

To access these positions, log in to your UMBCworks account (via the link in the Jobs & Internships Topic inmyUMBC) and find details and application instructions as well ashundreds of other job postings! 

Please note you MUST have an approved resume to apply to positions. To schedule an appointment, click on "Request a Counseling Appointment" via the UMBCworks homepage or call 410-455-2216.

It’s tricky to find a good set of icons, most packs have one or two useful graphics and then a lot of filler. So it’s refreshing to discover an approach like the one used by Icons8; every day they check the most requested icons from their community, design the three most popular and add them to their collection. It’s a great way of ensuring that their icons are relevent to their users.

Icons8 have also generously designed this set of 53 sports icons, exclusively for WebdesignerDepot readers. They come as EPS and SVG vectors, so you can be sure they’ll scale to whatever size you need them to.

Amongst our favourites are the dynamic canoeist digging deep into the water; the anatomy icons, especially the lungs and abs; and the lovingly detailed climbing gear.

Icons8 make a range of different icons, from the popular iOS7 style with over 1200 icons, to the Windows 8 icon pack with over 1600 icons. There’s a new Android icon pack and their brand new app, allowing you to search for icons and drag and drop straight into applications like Photoshop is available now for Mac and Windows.

You can download the files beneath the preview:

Have you used Icons8′s icons in a project? Which of these sports icons works best for you? Let us know in the comments.

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