4 items tagged “jargon”
2009
Talking about OpenID. “So a relying party walks in to a bar...” # 5th January 2009, 10:46 am
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.”
— Tim O'Reilly # 29th December 2008, 7:29 pm
2006
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
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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