Quick request to the hive mind

[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?