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		<title>JaroslavTulach: /* Have You Ever Wondered...? */</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;autocomment&quot;&gt;Have You Ever Wondered...?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;== Have You Ever Wondered...? ==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;== Have You Ever Wondered...? ==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;-&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Maybe you are asking yourself: &amp;quot;Why should I slow myself down by creating an API? Is not that more work?&amp;quot;. In the [[The Motivation to Create an API|&lt;del style=&quot;color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;3rd &lt;/del&gt;chapter]] of [[TheAPIBook]] I describe that overall, it is not more work. Moreover I also reveal that even if you try, you cannot live without APIs. APIs are everywhere, even in in-house systems. In the world of [[DistributedDevelopment]] they become inevitable.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Maybe you are asking yourself: &amp;quot;Why should I slow myself down by creating an API? Is not that more work?&amp;quot;. In the [[The Motivation to Create an API|&lt;ins style=&quot;color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;second &lt;/ins&gt;chapter]] of [[TheAPIBook]] I describe that overall, it is not more work. Moreover I also reveal that even if you try, you cannot live without APIs. APIs are everywhere, even in in-house systems. In the world of [[DistributedDevelopment]] they become inevitable.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;autocomment&quot;&gt;Have You Ever Wondered...?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;-&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Maybe you are asking yourself: &amp;quot;Why should I slow myself down by creating an API? Is not that more work?&amp;quot;. In the 3rd chapter of [[TheAPIBook]] I describe that overall, it is not more work. Moreover I also reveal that even if you try, you cannot live without APIs. APIs are everywhere, even in in-house systems. In the world of [[DistributedDevelopment]] they become inevitable.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Maybe you are asking yourself: &amp;quot;Why should I slow myself down by creating an API? Is not that more work?&amp;quot;. In the &lt;ins style=&quot;color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;[[The Motivation to Create an API|&lt;/ins&gt;3rd chapter&lt;ins style=&quot;color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;]] &lt;/ins&gt;of [[TheAPIBook]] I describe that overall, it is not more work. Moreover I also reveal that even if you try, you cannot live without APIs. APIs are everywhere, even in in-house systems. In the world of [[DistributedDevelopment]] they become inevitable.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<title>JaroslavTulach at 19:47, 2 August 2008</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;== Have You Ever Wondered...? ==&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Maybe you are asking yourself: &amp;quot;Why should I slow myself down by creating an API? Is not that more work?&amp;quot;. In the 3rd chapter of [[TheAPIBook]] I describe that overall, it is not more work. Moreover I also reveal that even if you try, you cannot live without APIs. APIs are everywhere, even in in-house systems. In the world of [[DistributedDevelopment]] they become inevitable.&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<title>Apidesign: Removing all content from page</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Removing all content from page&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;-&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;del style=&quot;color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;More on topic than the previous chapter.&lt;/del&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;-&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;del style=&quot;color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Still quite a lot of preachy text without much in the way of specific information or advice.&lt;/del&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;-&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;del style=&quot;color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Could likely be trimmed down quite a bit.&lt;/del&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;-&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;del style=&quot;color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;--[[User:JesseGlick|JesseGlick]] 22:38, 26 March 2008 (UTC)&lt;/del&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<title>JesseGlick: New page: More on topic than the previous chapter. Still quite a lot of preachy text without much in the way of specific information or advice. Could likely be trimmed down quite a bit.  --~~~~</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;New page: More on topic than the previous chapter. Still quite a lot of preachy text without much in the way of specific information or advice. Could likely be trimmed down quite a bit.  --~~~~&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;New page&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;More on topic than the previous chapter.&lt;br /&gt;
Still quite a lot of preachy text without much in the way of specific information or advice.&lt;br /&gt;
Could likely be trimmed down quite a bit.&lt;br /&gt;
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--[[User:JesseGlick|JesseGlick]] 22:38, 26 March 2008 (UTC)&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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