Words & Language: December 2005 Archives

I recently ran into the lovely term, "Architecture Astronauts." Joel Spolsky recently mentioned this lovely  term recently in reference to the hype surroundin Web 2.0 and the long ago hype surrounding P2P . I've had similar feelings although I never had such a neat term for it. I first had this sensation when I ran into material where people think we should re-organize the web into neat little ontologically correct collections where you can reliably search for synonyms and always get the one you meant and not the other one.

I'm always relieved when I realize that working code always wins out over complex but architecturally correct diagrams.