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First There Was Java, Then XML, Then AJAX; Now Comes...XJAX
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04/08/2006, By Daniel B. Markham
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XJAX stands for Cross-domain JavaScript and XML. It's a way of working with data sources from various sites inside a web page without having to have a dedicated server.
How do I know this new word, this new force majure of the industry? Well. I made it up.
I guess I should apologize to sombody. After all, perhaps you need a special certificate or something to create something as beautiful as awk, grep, RegEx (not to be confused with FedEx), LAN, WAN, and any of the other zillion catch phrases.
It was all for naught. Year after year, project after project, we created reams of buzzword-encrusted reports and paperwork that would make any linguist cringe. And it wasn't just computer jargon. Heck no. That would have been too easy. We took industry jargon, the stuff that nobody else in any other field would recognize, and mixed it with computer jargon, the kind that the industry people themselves wouldn't understand. Then, just for some fun, we made up new acronyms and buzzwords and ladled them in there with the rest of them.
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