Strictly Business

Dragon Tea — A separate software dependency required for a piece of software one wants to build and/or run that is:

1. Excessively difficult to find and hidden in some dark corner of the Internet.
2. Excessively difficult to build.
3. Excessively difficult to integrate into build process for the software one wants to build/run.
4. Any combination of the first three.

Dragon Tea often takes the form of an obscure shared library or Yet-Another-Build-Environment, and usually tends to cause as much or more grief than conveniance it was intended to provide.

Etymology: Dragon Tea was named after the imagery of a mystical ancient Chinese cure to any ailment that one can only be found in the darkest, scariest, most out-of-the-way section of Chinatown on a full moon when all the planets line up, and having as much potential to kill the patient as it has to cure them.

Today I start adding an “Ilan Lexicon” section to Strictly Business. I have my own way of describing the situations I encounter in my work; most often, my invention of a word is for the purpose of accurately putting a finger on a truism that many have encountered but few have ever named. I find that when I can name a problem, I’m better able to deal with it.

It is my hope in the future that my invented words will migrate to their own section, but right now, they’ll sit aside all the other content.

So I am starting yet another blog, yet another time. This blog has to do with computer stuff and job-related stuff.

Short and sweet intro, baby.

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