4 items tagged “jargon”
Talking about OpenID. “So a relying party walks in to a bar...”
5th January 2009, 10:46 am
I seem to have lost the battle to define Web 2.0 as “the use of the network as platform to build systems that get better the more people use them.”
— Tim O'Reilly
29th December 2008, 7:29 pm
Agile Development -or- How to name a religion. Clever language trick: If you’re not doing agile, you’re “not agile”.
12th December 2006, 8:54 am
Why the term Ajax is useful
Software design patterns are useful mainly because they provide a shared vocabulary: rather than discussing the intimate details of a three layered application architecture, we say “MVC”. Rather than describing an object that tracks your progress while looping over a collection, we say “Iterator”. [... 152 words]