Dear fellow nerds, please write out all acronyms the first time you use them (TFTYUT), our nerd circles may not overlap. After TFTYUT you can use the nice short version however you wish. Many thanks.
It may be persnickety, but it just really throws me off when authors create a new acronym, and I have no idea what they're talking about.
Its all about the API for me. I don't want to see Device.FPC, when I have no idea FPC is a thing. I want to see Device.Power
Like any other writing, it's just about knowing your audience.
I mean, are you really going to write "HN (Hacker News)", "YC (Y Combinator)", "HTTP (Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol)", etc. every single time you use those in a comment here?
Is this really the case? I've been using it since it's inception (never used "Indigo" in production). At the time it was a godsend because our company was moving to a SOA (ahh... the dark ages) using Oracle Fusion Middleware, and judging by the job postings over the years I suspect many other non-Java/Oracle houses also adopted WCF.
I did not realize it was considered an obscure technology.
This is the third project I have worked on that uses WCF, and I have been working on the .NET platform since Beta.