enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Conway's law - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_law

    An example of the impact of Conway's Law can be found in the design of some organization websites. Nigel Bevan stated in a 1997 paper, regarding usability issues in websites: "Organizations often produce web sites with a content and structure which mirrors the internal concerns of the organization rather than the needs of the users of the site ...

  3. Coupling (computer programming) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coupling_(computer...

    Whether loosely or tightly coupled, a system's performance is often reduced by message and parameter creation, transmission, translation (e.g. marshaling) and message interpretation (which might be a reference to a string, array or data structure), which require less overhead than creating a complicated message such as a SOAP message. Longer ...

  4. Crossword abbreviations - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossword_abbreviations

    Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE. "Say" for EG, used to mean "for example". More obscure clue words of this variety include: "Model" for T, referring to the Model T.

  5. Tightly coupled system - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/?title=Tightly_coupled_system&...

    This page was last edited on 12 February 2014, at 09:41 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  6. Loose coupling - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loose_coupling

    In computing and systems design, a loosely coupled system is one in which components are weakly associated (have breakable relationships) with each other, and thus ...

  7. Symmetric multiprocessing - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetric_multiprocessing

    Diagram of a symmetric multiprocessing system. Symmetric multiprocessing or shared-memory multiprocessing [1] (SMP) involves a multiprocessor computer hardware and software architecture where two or more identical processors are connected to a single, shared main memory, have full access to all input and output devices, and are controlled by a single operating system instance that treats all ...

  8. Organizational information theory - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organizational_information...

    Other scholars notice the Weick's warning that loose coupling should not be used as a normative model. Universities will not lose their academic freedom with a tighter coupled system. Frank W. states that "They (universities) are tightly coupled in some aspects and uncoupled in other aspects.

  9. Azed - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azed

    Azed is a crossword which appears every Sunday in The Observer newspaper. Since it first appeared in March 1972, every puzzle has been composed by Jonathan Crowther who also judges the monthly clue-writing competition. [1] The pseudonym Azed is a reversal of (Fray Diego de) Deza, a Spanish inquisitor general.