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Buzzword Buster – Duck Typing
The term ‘duck typing’ is often used to describe a type of dynamic typing in programming languages where the object’s current set of methods and properties determines the valid semantics. Why? duck...
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Buzzword Buster – AMFVO
AMFVO is short for Action Message Format (AMF) Value Object (VO). AMF is a binary format used to serialize ActionScript objects, primarily used to exchange data between a Flash application and a remote...
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Buzzword Buster – Technical Debt
Yet another recurring phrase on DotNetRocks’s podcasts, and a catchy one at that! The term ‘technical debt’ was coined by Ward Cunningham to describe the eventual consequences a software development...
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Buzzword Buster – CTP and RTM
Definition: CTP stands for Community Technology Preview, another fancy term for a ‘beta’ or ‘prototype’. RTM stands for Release To Manufacturing or Release To Market. References: Software release life...
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Buzzword Buster – Low Ceremony
One of a new wave of buzzwords that have been made popular by the emerging breed of Ruby/Scala developers, low ceremony is usually used to describe web frameworks – if a framework is "low ceremony"...
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