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Sunday, 13th January 2008

Poorly Macbook, ineffective error message design. Nat’s MacBook died the other day, throwing out some impressively meaningless error symbols. How exactly are you meant to Google for a circle with a line through it?

# 11:31 pm / apple, errors, google, macbook, natalie-downe, searchability, usability

I've never heard anyone from the REST camp claim that building distributed systems was "easy". [...] The WS-* folks have historically been obsessed with making things easy, usually for an imaginary business analyst who is nowhere near as technically adept as they. The REST folks, on the other hand, seem much more interested in keeping the entire stack simple, and for everyone involved.

Ryan Tomayko

# 11:34 pm / rest, ryan-tomayko, simplicity, web-services, ws-star