Object:
- n. abstract representation of a physical entity.
- v. first reaction to any management suggestion.
- The lowest hierarchical application structure in an object-oriented language that can stand up and say, I instantiate!
- The first O in Oh-oh.
Object Orientation:
The predictable result of choosing a language that requires everything to be an object. When all you have is a class, everything looks like an object.
Online Analytical Processing (OLAP):
- The sound of a deflated tire when traveling at dangerous speeds.
- The sound of an analytical strategy when presented with deflated data.
OOA:
- Object Oriented Architecture
- Expressing deific powers through abstract representation of the Other Creator’s wares.
This is the thing that’s gonna save the bad manager’s project, right?
OOD:
- Object Oriented Design
- Attempting to breathe life into the abstract representations of the OOA.
This is the thing that’s gonna save the bad manager’s project, right?
OOP:
- Object Oriented Programming
- Class corruption by syntax and grammar of the beautific elegance once imagined by the OOD.
- Common exclamation heard when using OO.
This is the thing that’s gonna save the bad manager’s project, right?
Open Source:
- Operating systems and applications developed communally under the chaos theory of software design.
- Developed by each according to his abilities; used by each according to his need.
- The anti-capitalists’ threat against free markets by giving away their labor to make an inferior product that a third-party will eventually try to sell for a profit.
Operating System:
- The rules of the game on your chosen board.
- Machine-level instruction set that codifies the superiority of eating a soft-boiled egg from either the small end or the big end.
- The temple laws of each platform priesthood.
ORM:
- Object Relational Mapping. What object? What relation? What map?
- Not so much a map as a translation with interpretation; as when converting colors to sound.
This is the thing that’s gonna save the bad manager’s project, right?
Outlier:
- The most important and critical data element in the set.
- The single-most valuable data to your particular analysis.
- Data that are always ignored, e.g., the charges in the general ledger that would show that the company is losing money.
Outsourcing:
- Using offshore resources to accelerate client alienation in half the time using half the resources at half the cost.
- Familiar business mistake by incompetent managers who forget that the cost/value relationship involves Output and Quality as factors.
Overloading:
- Using the same word to mean different things; e.g. Inflammable, or Impregnable.
- Giving the few, or the one, competent programmer(s) another assignment.
- Appropriating, wholesale, the sheep’s clothing in order to situate the wolf inside the flock.
- A cautionary tale of straw and a camel and the consequences of inadequate capacity metrics.
- A method with the same name but different signature, as is any identity thief.
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