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Less is More – The Comic

by Nick Gall  |  October 5, 2008  |  1 Comment

Technorati Tags: fun Via a comment by Frank Hood on my less is more post, here is the perfect comic to illustrate my point. Be sure to read the comments to the comic…

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My First Post From Windows Live Writer

by Nick Gall  |  October 5, 2008  |  Comments Off

I’ve heard great things about Windows Live Writer. We’ll see.

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How Does REST Help Solve Data Semantics Problems?

by Nick Gall  |  October 2, 2008  |  3 Comments

Eric Roch recently blogged (Gartner on SOA vs. WOA) about my REST interview and he asked an excellent question: “So let’s look at the [REST] constraints, can someone please tell me which of these constraints solves data semantics problems?” The answer is the uniform interface constraint (UIC), which you can also think of as the “generality [...]

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Less is More — Especially in Social Interactions

by Nick Gall  |  October 2, 2008  |  13 Comments

My colleague Anthony Bradley posted a thoughtful response to my post Web 2.0: Now with Fewer Features. First he wonders why I didn’t mention Gall’s Law. Well, If I were to cite a law it would be Sowa’s Law, which I sometimes refer to as Sowa’s Corollary to Gall’s Law: Whenever a major organization develops a [...]

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