Nick Gall

From Global Nerdy. This is the best thing I’ve seen out of PDC so far! Click on the picture to go to the original.

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I don’t know why, but this video really cracked me up. Especially the special appearance by Palin. Bring it!

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Judith Hurwitz apparently doesn’t like WOA. That’s OK. To each their own. [BTW, I choose to use the ungrammatical their/they/them as a universal 3rd party pronoun to avoid having to use gender specific his/he/him or her/she/her.] I can’t be too upset because her blog post turned me on to PollDaddy.com. Here is my first poll:
Do [...]

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I’m finally on twitter now, and I’m happy to report that it hasn’t been the major time sink I feared it would be. I think in large part this is due to how simple the interface and functionality are. Contrast this with Facebook, which has infinite interface and functional (aka apps) knobs and levers to [...]

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[This post was triggered by a fun discussion in the comments on the post Is ‘Wireless’ Anemic or Merely Retrospective?]
When the term "electric guitar" became nearly as popular as the original unmodified word "guitar", the term "acoustic guitar" emerged because "guitar" (unmodified) was considered ambiguous. "Acoustic guitar" is labeled the retronym. What is "electric guitar" [...]

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In a recent post, Dave McCoy discusses what he calls anemic words and how "[d]efinitional context [entailed by such words] will constrain your imagination."
I suppose whether or not to hark back to a word’s roots or context is a matter of taste. I personally love studying etymology — the history of words. And I often [...]

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I recently came across this gem at Jim Zimmermann’s Analyst Perspectives blog:
I had the opportunity to work on several new business presentations to Lou Gerstner, the CEO of IBM at the time. When working on the presentation, we were told in no uncertain terms that we should not even bother bringing a proposal to Gerstner [...]

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There is arguably no more intense experience for an IT analyst than Gartner Symposium. And I can say that as an ex-META analyst — METAmorphosis (META’s flagship event) was wonderful, but in terms of the sheer numbers of interactions it pales in comparison. When I am not presenting, I am engaged in one-on-one meetings with [...]

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In his paean to the great 1962 movie The Manchurian Candidate, David McCoy asks the following:
Are we so focused on tomorrow that we deny today and desecrate the past?  Yeah…  we are.  Not everything worth having was just discovered in the past two weeks, in some garage in Palo Alto, by a few kids in [...]

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How to GET a Cup of Coffee is a very detailed discussion of a RESTful application of ordering and paying for coffee at a hypothetical Starbucks. It shows a lot of the details needed to understand the power and flexibility of the approach. It even manages to explain HATEOAS (Hypermedia As The Engine Of Application [...]

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