Daily Archives: May 6, 2011

Mental Note

Technical Buzzwords

As an active Technical Architect I encounter and (sadly) use a lot of buzzwords. Although the buzzwords are not technical in nature it would seem that my clients and colleagues just love hearing them. I don’t know what it is about the buzzwords that makes things easier for them to understand; actually I almost think it does the opposite of helping people understand. It certainly does help me sell the idea though.

Here’s a list of my favourites:

  • Verticals
  • Initiative
  • Alignment (with business / IT / HR / or other buzzwords :))
  • PKI (more of a technical term but it seems to get thrown around a lot these days)
  • _________ model (substitute your favorite word … some examples include: RBAC, security, delegation)
  • Cross Authority
  • Key Indicators (KPI, kind of like PKI above only different lol)
  • Silos
  • The Cloud
  • Holistic
  • Virtual
  • Sustainment
  • Strategic

The best part of the buzzwords is that you can string them together like, “A strategic decision was made with substance that aligns various business and IT verticals to achieve an overall holistic view.” Damn… I sound smart; too bad I didn’t actually state anything.

Well, I’ll be adding these buzzwords throughout my writing, so keep your eyes peeled!

~JCF

Misc

1MB Corporation Continues To Grow

Over the past couple of years, my company, the 1MB Corporation has made great strides in development and consulting services.  As a newly formed company we spent a lot of time consolidating our services in the areas of web hosting, programming libraries and support.  This has enabled us to provide severely reduced costs in development, procurement and ongoing sustainment.

One of our major accomplishments was consolidating and updating our PHP library to be in a modular (reusable) format.  We have a very robust user management and security system that has been put to the test time and time again; evidently it scales nicely!  Some key areas of development have been in the areas of clean reusable user interfaces, file management, advertising, SEO, navigation, HTML templates, sales management, security management, accounting integration, image management and MANY more!  Needless to say we are excited about our offerings to any sized business large or small.

We continue to stay focussed with our overall company vision, “Smart. Quality. Simple.”  The future is looking great for us; for more information check back at http://1mb.ca.

~JCF