by Nick Gall | September 17, 2010 | 2 Comments
[This is a continuation of a discussion of the “shape of the web” that started in Twitter and then moved to Richard Veryard’s blog: What shape is the Internet.] Glad we agree on the 1st point. On the 2nd point, I’m not sure Tim’s vision of hypermedia was all that "innocent". I think both Tim [...]
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by Nick Gall | July 21, 2010 | 21 Comments
I just plunged back into the linked data scene after having been more focused on other topics, like design thinking/hybrid thinking. I was surprised to find that the controversy about whether linked data requires RDF is still raging: When is Linked Data not Linked Data? – A summary of the debate. I assumed this would [...]
by Nick Gall | June 2, 2009 | 5 Comments
As a few of my friends know, I live for epiphanies. I love to connect concepts. So I’m really happy to be having one now (it’s been a while as regular readers of my blog — if any remain — can tell). For a LONG time, I’ve been talking about how all interfaces can be [...]
by Nick Gall | January 14, 2009 | Comments Off
Recommended: http://blog.maxindelicato.com/2009/01/17-distributed-systems-and-web-scalability-resources.html
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by Nick Gall | January 6, 2009 | 1 Comment
Anne Thomas Manes has started the new year of with a bang by declaring: SOA is Dead; Long Live Services. While I agree with many of the sentiments behind Anne’s declarations that “SOA is dead”, I disagree with her way forward: “long live services”. It is services thinking, as conventionally understood, that led to the [...]
by Nick Gall | December 8, 2008 | 2 Comments
The most important aspect of WOA is application neutral interfaces (or as some prefer application generic interfaces). Since interfaces are constituted by their IFaPs (Identifiers, Formats, and Protocols), this means that all three aspects must be made "as generic as possible, but not too generic" (playing off Einstein’s quote regarding simplicity). We all know about [...]
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by Nick Gall | November 19, 2008 | 17 Comments
As my friend and colleague Anthony Bradley just pointed out in his blog, our WOA note has finally been published (subscription required) and it’s something that I am very proud of. Not just because my co-authors Anthony, Dan Sholler and I produced a well-crafted piece of research (if I do say so myself), but more [...]
by Nick Gall | October 21, 2008 | Comments Off
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: [...]
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by Nick Gall | October 6, 2008 | Comments Off
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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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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