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Used of products that seem to have been specified to incorporate all of this month's trendy technologies. It is also known as buzzword-enabled and often used disparagingly. Some key buzzwords that often show up in buzzword-compliant specifications today are "Agile", "Cloud computing", "Internet of Things(IoT)", etc.

In the technology industry, buzzword compliant is a tongue-in-cheek expression used to suggest that a particular product supports features simply because they are currently fashionable. It is widely used in public speaking, when some company presents its new products. Since many of the decision-makers regarding technology purchases may only be semi-literate technically, the use of buzzwords makes a product sound more valuable.

Some examples can include Big Data, Internet of Things (IoT), NoSQL, etc.

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What is "business intelligence" software?

Is "business intelligence" a buzzword that has no real meaning to software developers, or does the term carry some implied meaning in terms of what the software does or how the software does it (in a general sense)? It appears to be a real business…
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What problem does XHTML strict solve?

I really don't understand the fascination with XHTML strict. Inline JavaScript typically requires a rats nest of escapes to make it compatible with XHTML and semi-backwards compatible with MSIE 5 & 6. Then there is the issue of not being OCD…
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How do you use Active Directory in a "hosted solution"?

Yesterday I got a call from a Microsoft representative asking if we supply "hosted solutions", presumably as part of the big Windows Azure push. As soon as I got off that call, our marketing director came into my office and said the majority of our…
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In TDD, how do you write tests first when the functions to test are undefined?

If you have nothing, you cannot write a test because there is nothing to test. This seems pretty obvious to me but never seems to be addressed by proponents of TDD. In order to write a test, you have to first decide what the method or function looks…
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Buzz words in architecture document

The architecture document of our application has a couple of buzz words that I am not able to relate to intuitively Stateless distributable application Pluggable security model I can understand what distributed means , but what does it mean to…
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replacement for "functionality" buzzword?

Of all the annoying buzzwords, "functionality" is the worst when I am in the middle of writing a specification (as I am now): "these requirements define the functionality to be included in version 2"..."as part of the download functionality, we need…
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Need help in sorting the programming buzz-words

How do you sort out the good buzz from the bad buzz? - I really need your help here :) I see a lot of buzz-words nowadays, both here on SO and in school. For example, we had a teacher who everyone respected, who said "be careful about gold-plating…
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