Failover:
New job.
Feature:
A planned bug.
Fanboi
- Ad-hoc cheerleader, substituting unsubstantiated internet bench-tests for pompons during exhibitions of enthusiastic support for whatever platform, product, tool, or framework is specifically excluded from their current environment.
- Advocate of any cool new technology because it makes the advocate seem cool by affiliation.
- Devotee, often of one particular technical religion, who cannot recognize that all technical religions demand the same devotion.
Financial Reporting:
- Delivery of tightly-bound knots in such a way as to imply their innermost parts have been revealed by keen insight.
- The content overload produced by disgorgement of massive detail in response to sensitive inquiries concerning clandestine activities.
- The derivation of legitimacy for erroneous numbers by transference of origination from human to computer; and then from computer to human.
- A fanciful excursion into the Financial Accounts that renders the conclusion of growth during reduction, profit during loss, and robustness during times of frailty.
See: Reporting
Flash© :
A momentary brilliance followed by little of significance.
Foreign Key:
- A database table reference that improves performance and impedes understanding.
- A functional grouping mechanism used in data structures for conferring integrity through rigor while ignoring syntax through ignorance.
- The key to your Audi.
Framework:
The conclusion of design efficiency whereby the complete collection of all possible resources must be present before the least of all programs will run.
Freetard:
- Enthusiastic supporter of freeware; detractor of licensed software.
- Senior designer on all Windows software projects.
Freeware:
Software worth what you paid for it.
Front End
- n. The most important aspect of any design, any project, or any solution — how it makes the user feel.
- adj. (front-end) Any reference to the only part of an application understood by managers, clients, or users.
- v. To spend all allotted time and effort on an irrelevant portion of design or production in order for the overseers to appear active.
Let’s front end the front-end design so we can get the front end out the door so the stakeholders can see it.
Fuzzy Logic:
- Coding without glasses.
- A halfway house for Boolean values that won’t go all the way.
- The essay answer to a true-or-false question.
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