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overengineering

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  • verb Present participle of overengineer.

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Examples

  • Talk about a case of overengineering and useless waste of Flash. reply

    Redefining The IMG Tag Michael Arrington 2005

  • Spring has been one of the most important parts of the Java landscape in the past decade, encouraging simplicity in place of overengineering.

    Javalobby - The heart of the Java developer community 2010

  • The gist of which is: is the latest overengineering of a razor really that innovative?

    Johnnie Moore's Weblog Johnnie Moore 2010

  • You know, I find that as I get older, I am able to avoid overengineering things a lot better than when I was twenty something.

    Slashdot: Developers 2010

  • We also have to ensure we are not overengineering the process.

    Purchasing - Top Stories 2010

  • The gist of which is: is the latest overengineering of a razor really that innovative?

    Johnnie Moore's Weblog Johnnie Moore 2010

  • We also have to ensure we are not overengineering the process.

    Purchasing - Top Stories 2010

  • Incidentally, all of this is a massive overengineering of what's necessary to finish my Artomatic project: those requirements could probably be satisfied with a wireless doorbell kit from Logan Hardware and a couple of

    Manifest Density 2009

  • Incidentally, all of this is a massive overengineering of what's necessary to finish my Artomatic project: those requirements could probably be satisfied with a wireless doorbell kit from Logan Hardware and a couple of

    Manifest Density 2009

  • Zope 3 is a full framework and exhibits many "frameworky" tendencies -- overengineering and inversion of control.

    Artima Developer Spotlight 2009

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