I am disturbed by the evolution of the lingua franca of internet development.

We cope with evolving titles with no clear definitions (webmaster, web designer, web developer, et. al). We dumb-down the complexity of projects for the general techno-idiot lay-person. These are unwanted but necessary aspects of an evolving professional language.

However, the scatologicalization (did I just invent that word?) of our web development vocabulary must stop.

“Yeah, I do design front-end interfaces. Generally, however, I focus on the back-end.”

“The back end?”

“Yeah, I specialize in back-end applications.”

“applicators?”

“No, applications.”

Dump is another tragic addition to the internet vocabulary. “Can I get a dump of what you’re working on?” “I can’t update the back-end until I receive a dump of that.” Dump, dump, dump. Coupled with words like feed and digest we have a serious fetish infecting our industry. Alas, there is simply no suitable synonym for dump: nothing adequately describes the raw excretion of bytes transferred from one file to another during a dump.

Speaking of, gotta run: I have to dump a digest of your feed to my back-end application.