Validation and Verification

1. A mystical process known to only a few, practiced by none.
2. In mythology, V&V conquers fear by vanquishing ignorance from the blind and conferring grace on the condemned.
3. The elixir from the secret well of application wisdom, sold only to the gods for the measly price of an eye.

Variable:

1. Unknown, as in the sanity of the project manager, or its fragility if it exists.
2. Variables don’t; constants aren’t ~~ Osborne’s Law
3. The storage space reserved for a certain value that will eventually, in practice, exceed the space or value limitations enforced by that type.

View:

1. In database scripting, a virtual structure that looks like a table. Used to hide complexity or protect integrity — so as not to scare the skittish programmers who don’t necessarily like data anyway.
2. On executive row, the corner office.
3. In the cube farm, anything you can see when you stand up.
4. That part of the MVC model that contains nothing but style, holds nothing but context, and by vacuity alone is considered the most important aspect of all production.

Virus:

Any Version 1.0 release by Microsoft.

Version Control:

1. Adding bugs by the numbers.
2. Formal process by which extensive code can be overwritten with “Do something here .” 
3. Tyranny’s offering to the application development process.

Virtualization:

1. Fantastic technology that allows programmers to build castles in the sky; and then move into them.
2. A platform that is virtually there, virtually stable, and virtually usable. But not really.
3. Working in a universe of your own creation, with all limitations thereto.

… and the Virtualization Expert looked upon his creation and it was good enough for programmers.

Visio^©:

1. Paint^© for project managers.
2. UML-lite without the stricture of visual semantics.
3. Visual design product validating the M.C. Escher conundrum that if it can be drawn, it can be developed.

Dr. Roland Poundtoe, noted computer anthropologist reported recently of an unhappy case where Mr. Norman Friendbottler, Pictionary Champion, 1992, required medication and rehabilitation after trying to decipher a Visio drawing carelessly left in the coffee room at Amalgamated Navel Lint, LLC. Mr. Friendbottler is recovering and is expected to compete in the hospital intra-mural Pictionary Open next month.

Vista^©:

1. Professionally-manufactured virus, produced by Microsoft, that mimics a Windows operating system only to the extent that the visual interface appears to be stolen from Apple. Again.
2. A view from a great height, e.g. 50,000 feet, where traumatic brain injury from cerebral hypoxia might explain why anyone at Redmond rescued this disaster from the dumpster.

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