Glossary
These are terms that I may/may not use on my site…
Programming Acronyms
| AJAX | Asynchronous JavaScript and XML |
| CI | Continuous Integration (see also CruiseControl.Net) |
| DI | Dependency Injection (see also MSDN) |
| DRY | Don't Repeat Yourself - aka Once and Only Once - no duplicate code or information. |
| MVC | Model View Controller (see also recent videos of MS MVC Framework) |
| MVP | Model View Presenter (also, Microsoft's Most Valuable Professional award) |
| TDD | Test Driven Development - aka Test First Development. See also MSDN |
| YAGNI | You Ain't Gonna Need It - Agile development practice suggesting you build only what you need right now. |
Object-Oriented Programming
(adapted from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented_programming)
| Class | Defines the abstract characteristics of a thing. Class Names should be nouns. Components of a class include: A thing's characteristics (attributes, fields, properties), A thing's behaviors or thing it can do (methods, operations)  |
| Encapsulation | Encapsulation conceals the functional details of a class. |
| Inheritance | A class that inherits another class are usually specialized versions of the parent class. This sub-class inherit attributes and behaviors from their parent classes, and can introduce their own. |
| Polymorphism | Polymorphism allows you to treat derived class members just like their parent class' members. |