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Failover:

New job.

Feature:

A planned bug.

Fanboi

  1. 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.
  2. Advocate of any cool new technology because it makes the advocate seem cool by affiliation.
  3. Devotee, often of one particular technical religion, who cannot recognize that all technical religions demand the same devotion.

Financial Reporting:

  1. Delivery of tightly-bound knots in such a way as to imply their innermost parts have been revealed by keen insight.
  2. The content overload produced by disgorgement of massive detail in response to sensitive inquiries concerning clandestine activities.
  3. The derivation of legitimacy for erroneous numbers by transference of origination from human to computer; and then from computer to human.
  4. 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:

  1. A database table reference that improves performance and impedes understanding.
  2. A functional grouping mechanism used in data structures for conferring integrity through rigor while ignoring syntax through ignorance.
  3. 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:

  1. Enthusiastic supporter of freeware; detractor of licensed software.
  2. Senior designer on all Windows software projects.

Freeware:

Software worth what you paid for it.

Front End

  1. n. The most important aspect of any design, any project, or any solution — how it makes the user feel.
  2. adj. (front-end) Any reference to the only part of an application understood by managers, clients, or users.
  3. 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:

  1. Coding without glasses.
  2. A halfway house for Boolean values that won’t go all the way.
  3. The essay answer to a true-or-false question.


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