Quick request to the hive mind

[dan sh]

Not my job The dark side of IT Dungeon of networking team Things that often delay go-live Or... environment stuff = GW databases = NSA connectivity = FB leads to GWNSAFB.

"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[^]

[Mark_Wallace]

"The rubbish that I leave for idiots to take care of."

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

[ZurdoDev]

Nagy Vilmos wrote:

My brain was farting

I thought I smelled something. :~

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data. There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.

[Nathan Minier]

When talking to management, I call it the Operating Environment. With nerds, you can go with WSOGMM (Whole-Sort Of General Mis-Mash). Shout out to Douglas Adams. If you're talking to marketers, call it the Mist (because it can be local, right?) and they'll go all gooey. Because they think it's a marketing term that refers to the Cloud. When talking to techs, I use a different word. Notably: why isn't my %$&^ running on your #$&*!!!

"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics." - Benjamin Disraeli

[PIEBALDconsult]

Nathan Minier wrote:

call it the Mist

Does your software frolic in the autumn mist in the land called Honali?

[Nathan Minier]

No, but it does have gorillas.

"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics." - Benjamin Disraeli

[BillWoodruff]

"FrameWork," or, "Application Context"

«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008

[Leng Vang]

Definitely Gorilla Tape!

[Kirill Illenseer]

Infrastructure

[Moreno Airoldi]

Underlying IT Infrastructure ? :)

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice, but not in practice. - Anonymous A computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match. - B. Bryson

[DodgyCode]

Engineers would call this ancillaries.

[englebart]

Application Execution Environment

[TylerMc007]

Ecosystem

[NedPat]

Describing databases and external connectivity as rubbish does provide a clue to the poor performance of so many applications. Aren't they integral to the application?

[Mark_Wallace]

See here[^], here[^], and here,[^]

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

[Alister Morton]

Perhaps it's a German view on the entire situation.

[Kirk 10389821]

I have a couple: 1) Joy 2) Bliss 3) Billable Hours 4) Stuff I forgot to include in #3 when I wrote the qoute!

[pmauriks]

Dependencies? Interfaces? People, Process and Dependency?