Buzzword Buster

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” then the amount of setup/configuration it requires is minimal and the central…

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 test — If it looks like a…

Buzzword Buster — Stylesheets, XSL and XSLT

Stylesheet

A Stylesheet language or style language, is a computer language used to describe the presentation of structured documents. A structured document which doesn’t break the schema it is designed to conform to is…

Buzzword Buster — DDD

Definition:

Domain Driven Design (DDD) is an approach to software design which puts the focus on the problem domain and provides a structure for making design decisions to accelerates software development for complicated domains. The key components in DDD…

Buzzword Buster — Cross-Cutting Concern

Definition:

A Cross-Cutting Concern is a concern your application needs to address that is unrelated to your application’s problem domain, and ‘cuts across’ other concerns. Typical examples include: