4 items tagged “jargon”
2009
Talking about OpenID. “So a relying party walks in to a bar...”
2008
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."
2006
Agile Development -or- How to name a religion. Clever language trick: If you’re not doing agile, you’re “not agile”.
2005
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”.
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