I Have A Problem With Design Patterns Just in case the title and heading didn’t tip you off, I have a problem with software design patterns. The problem isn’t actually with the design patterns themselves, nor (necessarily) with the people who promote them. My problem, at it’s root, is how people treat them with an unquestioning semi-religious idolatry, and also use them as a way to declare themselves superior to others in a most idiotic fashion....
Irksome Lingo It is common amongst the non-executive types to deride so-called ’execu-speak’. That is, words and phrases which sound trite, stupid or (sometimes) like disingenuous euphemisms. While there can sometimes be some justification for such criticism, quite a lot of that vocabulary is simply, in essence, the jargon of that field. Software developers are actually at least as equally guilty of overusing sayings, re-using lexicon from somewhere else such that it makes little sense in the original context,1 and just plain using words and phrases that irritate me....