A shim in my world is something used to support something by taking up some space. Like putting pack of matches under a table leg. Or a real cedar shim in a doorframe. Maybe they meant it as coding something not in the standard - or cleanest - way to solve the problem.

>Recently someone here wrote something like "... code a shim to ...". "Shim", I asked myself. What the hell would that be!?!?!!! I chalked it up to another Microsoft invention.