If buzzword proliferation was a punishable crime, the penitentiaries would be full of software developers and blog authors.
Below is my list of buzzwords, catch-phrases, and technologies that need to be summarily executed without a lengthy trial:
- Web 2.0 (do I even need a reason?)
- AJAX (ahem.. The idea of asynchronous HTTP requests for XML content is core to XForms and better architected in that context)
- SOA / Web Services (90% of the time people use this term they refer to SOAP-based remote procedure invokation specifically)
- RDF/XML Syntax (This one has done more damage to RDF advocacy than any other)
- Semantic (This term is so thoroughly abused that it would be par for the course to read of cron job referred to as a 'semantic' process.)
- "Yes, that's very nice and all, but does it scale?" !*&%#@@$!!!
- Ontology: I've found it easiest to think of an Ontology as a Taxonomy (or polyhierarchy) with a minimal number of logical constraints. Without logical constraints, there is nothing 'ontological' about a model that could easily be represented in an E-R diagram.
I'm certain this is only about 2% of the full list, I'll be sure to add to it as more come to mind.
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