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4 posts tagged “jargon”

2009

Talking about OpenID. “So a relying party walks in to a bar...”

# 5th January 2009, 10:46 am / comic, jargon, openid, relyingparty

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 / jargon, tim-oreilly, web20

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 / agile, jargon

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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