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 idea is that it will stay out of …
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 cycle
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 organization incurs when it chooses to do things the quick and dirty way, which benefits the short-term but increases complexity and ultimately is more costly …
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 service; a VO is also known as a Data Transfer Object (DTO), it is used to transfer data between application subsystems. An …
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 duck, swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck
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 “well-formed”. One modern Stylesheet language with widespread use is Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), which is used to style documents written in …
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 include: Domain: the subject area to which your program is applied Model: abstractions that describe aspects …
Definition: Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) is a programming paradigm where each application can focus on its primary functions and core concerns by encouraging greater modularity and increasing separation of cross-cutting concerns (such as logging and authentication). Purpose: In any real-world applications, when you’re writing code to address the problem domain (say, booking an order) you …
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: logging persistence security error handling They are usually difficult to decompose from the rest of the system and result in tangled code. Addressing these cross-cutting concerns will …
Definition: A Domain Specific Language (DSL) is a programming language that’s dedicated to a particular problem domain. DSLs are often used to support domain-drive design and modelling. It’s the opposite of general purpose programming languages such as C# or Java. Advantages: Code looks like domain prose. Easier to understand by everyone. Easier to align with …
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