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Enterprise Application Software (EAS)
Enterprise software, also known as enterprise application software (EAS), is computer software used to satisfy the needs of an organization rather than individual users. Such organizations include businesses, schools, interest-based user groups, clubs, charities, and governments. Enterprise software is an integral part of a computer-based information system.
Source: Enterprise software
Environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG)
Environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG), also known as environmental, social, and governance, is a set of aspects considered when investing in companies that recommends taking environmental issues, social issues and corporate governance issues into account.
Source: Environmental, social, and corporate governance
event listener
An event listener or event handler is a function that is called when a specific event occurs in the DOM. The event listener is passed an Event object which contains data about the event.
For example, event listeners might be registered for click events, focus events, submit events, etc.
There are two recommended approaches for registering handlers. Event handler code can be made to run when an event is triggered by assigning it to the target elementʼs corresponding onevent property (e.g., onclick), or by registering the handler as a listener for the element using the addEventListener() method.
Source: Event handling (overview)
exitprise
Exitprise is a term we coined to contrast with enterprise. We believe that most enterprise software is over-engineered, overwrought, far more complex than it has any right to be, and pricey. In most circumstances, you arenʼt gonna need it: YAGNI. And most enterprise processes are also overly-complex and wasteful. YAGNI again.
Exitprise says keep it simple, never write any code until you absolutely need it, and write it yourself whenever possible. Focus on ad hoc collaboration not arbitrary teams. Avoid process as much as practicable. Get stuff done.
We pronounce it “exit prize”, which reminds us of the many benefits that exiting the enterprise model brings us.
external dependencies
External dependencies are libraries of code not written by you that you import into your code to avoid having to code them yourself.
The obvious benefits of external dependencies are to save time (the code is already written) and to acquire code that might be beyond your ability to write yourself.
The detriments should be equally obvious: you have little or no control over the code. Hence, you cannot be sure that it is secure or well-tested. You can only configure what they give you. If a feature is lacking, you are pretty much out of luck.
Worse, because the code must suit a wide variety of circumstances, it tends to be complex, bloated, and overly abstracted: one-size-fits-all [sic]. In contrast, code you write yourself can be very efficient: no wasted lines.

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