What would you name this class? [modified]
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(This is not a programming question). I have a bunch of
Fooobjects, all of which are controlled by aFooManager. What would you name an object that controls a collection ofFooManagers? [edit]Foo,FooManagerand the manager ofFooManagers are all processes in a distributed system. [/edit] [edit] John C is right - this really does belong in the Design forum. I might have actually got more than a couple of useful answers if I'd posted there in the first place. :-D [/edit] Thanks, /raviMy new year resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | My .NET bits | Freeware ravib(at)ravib(dot)com
modified on Thursday, May 22, 2008 12:49 PM
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I don't know what kind of data structures you are using, but somewhere in there I hope you have a queue. Even if you don't need it, how can you resist creating an object named FooQueue?
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brian8655 wrote:
an object named FooQueue?
Already suggested. :) /ravi
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One or all of the following: FooFooManager LordOfAllFooManagers FooAlmighty FooOfFoos HisGreatFooness TheGreatFooInTheSky Ralph
KramII wrote:
Ralph
:) /ravi
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PeterTheSwede wrote:
Foo is one ...
Exactly. So just why does an American WW2 military acronym find get used by nerdy computer programers? Did the first programmers come form 101 airborn? Makes me want to puke!
PeterTheSwede wrote:
Using it shows experience and literacy (and/or age, possibly - which also calls for respect).
That is exactly my point. Its used purely to atempt to appear more 'expert' or whatever despite the fact the user most likely isnt.
PeterTheSwede wrote:
So what exactly are you doing on a computer programming site?
Sorry, did CP become the home of nerds? I thought it was for software engineers? h, by the way, I was in mechanical engineering for many years before switching to software engineering, so I have many traits of a mechanical engineer, I like beer and cars for example, and not those of a typical software engineer.
Morality is indistinguishable from social proscription
"h, by the way, I was in mechanical engineering for many years before switching to software engineering, so I have many traits of a mechanical engineer, I like beer and cars for example, and not those of a typical software engineer. " I don't think being a software engineer excludes a person from being "cool". I like shooting assault rifles, classic rock, and racing cars(I used to race cars). I have more geek attributes than nerd attributes (if there is a difference), but I still like "normal" stuff. However, by most accounts I am a geek and I think most software engineers are too. I actually find it more interesting to be around geeks. They aren't all caught up in Berry Bonds steroid use or the Jeff Gordon nascar crash. I prefer discussing how Intel and AMD are scamming consumers by holding back on releasing better technology just so they can get a better return on their R&D, or how OSS is OK, but it will never become what MS has become. I think this is clear. Geeks (nerds) are cool. Everyone else is just boring. :laugh:
Ben
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"h, by the way, I was in mechanical engineering for many years before switching to software engineering, so I have many traits of a mechanical engineer, I like beer and cars for example, and not those of a typical software engineer. " I don't think being a software engineer excludes a person from being "cool". I like shooting assault rifles, classic rock, and racing cars(I used to race cars). I have more geek attributes than nerd attributes (if there is a difference), but I still like "normal" stuff. However, by most accounts I am a geek and I think most software engineers are too. I actually find it more interesting to be around geeks. They aren't all caught up in Berry Bonds steroid use or the Jeff Gordon nascar crash. I prefer discussing how Intel and AMD are scamming consumers by holding back on releasing better technology just so they can get a better return on their R&D, or how OSS is OK, but it will never become what MS has become. I think this is clear. Geeks (nerds) are cool. Everyone else is just boring. :laugh:
Ben
Odd. I am totaly not a geek or a nerd. I like talking about philosophy, telling jokes, politics, food, especially food, but never about computers. For me computers are a job. I like writing device drivers for windows, its very complex, very challenging, but I dont give a toss what the market as a whole is doing elsewhere.
Morality is indistinguishable from social proscription
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(This is not a programming question). I have a bunch of
Fooobjects, all of which are controlled by aFooManager. What would you name an object that controls a collection ofFooManagers? [edit]Foo,FooManagerand the manager ofFooManagers are all processes in a distributed system. [/edit] [edit] John C is right - this really does belong in the Design forum. I might have actually got more than a couple of useful answers if I'd posted there in the first place. :-D [/edit] Thanks, /raviMy new year resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | My .NET bits | Freeware ravib(at)ravib(dot)com
modified on Thursday, May 22, 2008 12:49 PM
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Odd. I am totaly not a geek or a nerd. I like talking about philosophy, telling jokes, politics, food, especially food, but never about computers. For me computers are a job. I like writing device drivers for windows, its very complex, very challenging, but I dont give a toss what the market as a whole is doing elsewhere.
Morality is indistinguishable from social proscription
OK, this is strangely becoming more like a personals ad. Maybe, you don't feel apart of the geek community, but I do think that for the most part software engineering does attract people that may be considered geeks or nerds. Although, that seems to be mostly an U.S. thing. Outside of the U.S. those people just seem to be considered very smart.
Ben
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John C wrote:
For the most part he's the village idiot
Do you really take it so seriously?
John C wrote:
I do agree with a dislike of nerdiness for nerdiness sake, if there as a CodeProject for people who own their own business and write the software I'd be there a lot talking about getting things done.
Agree.
Morality is indistinguishable from social proscription
fat_boy wrote:
John C wrote: For the most part he's the village idiot Do you really take it so seriously?
Sorry, that was a little harsh, I should have said *one of* the village idiots, there's at least a dozen I'm sure if I added them all up. ;)
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(This is not a programming question). I have a bunch of
Fooobjects, all of which are controlled by aFooManager. What would you name an object that controls a collection ofFooManagers? [edit]Foo,FooManagerand the manager ofFooManagers are all processes in a distributed system. [/edit] [edit] John C is right - this really does belong in the Design forum. I might have actually got more than a couple of useful answers if I'd posted there in the first place. :-D [/edit] Thanks, /raviMy new year resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | My .NET bits | Freeware ravib(at)ravib(dot)com
modified on Thursday, May 22, 2008 12:49 PM
What's a foo? If you're using "foo" as a name for something in production code, I think you have bigger problems than what to call a foo object manager manager. Might as well call it "bar", after all, you'd be hard pressed to obsfucate your code further. Besides, changing class names is a low risk operation, so don't fret over it. D'oh! Nevermind. Haven't had my coffee yet :) Overseer? UberManager? OverLord (that one's always fun)? Controller? Foreman? Container?
patbob
modified on Friday, May 23, 2008 12:17 PM
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(This is not a programming question). I have a bunch of
Fooobjects, all of which are controlled by aFooManager. What would you name an object that controls a collection ofFooManagers? [edit]Foo,FooManagerand the manager ofFooManagers are all processes in a distributed system. [/edit] [edit] John C is right - this really does belong in the Design forum. I might have actually got more than a couple of useful answers if I'd posted there in the first place. :-D [/edit] Thanks, /raviMy new year resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | My .NET bits | Freeware ravib(at)ravib(dot)com
modified on Thursday, May 22, 2008 12:49 PM
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What's a foo? If you're using "foo" as a name for something in production code, I think you have bigger problems than what to call a foo object manager manager. Might as well call it "bar", after all, you'd be hard pressed to obsfucate your code further. Besides, changing class names is a low risk operation, so don't fret over it. D'oh! Nevermind. Haven't had my coffee yet :) Overseer? UberManager? OverLord (that one's always fun)? Controller? Foreman? Container?
patbob
modified on Friday, May 23, 2008 12:17 PM
patbob wrote:
What's a foo?
Serves me right for posting a design related question in the Lounge. :sigh: /ravi
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(This is not a programming question). I have a bunch of
Fooobjects, all of which are controlled by aFooManager. What would you name an object that controls a collection ofFooManagers? [edit]Foo,FooManagerand the manager ofFooManagers are all processes in a distributed system. [/edit] [edit] John C is right - this really does belong in the Design forum. I might have actually got more than a couple of useful answers if I'd posted there in the first place. :-D [/edit] Thanks, /raviMy new year resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | My .NET bits | Freeware ravib(at)ravib(dot)com
modified on Thursday, May 22, 2008 12:49 PM
fooBAR perhaps?
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fooBAR perhaps?
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You all bitch and moan when someone posts a programming question here, I point out quite rightly that we have a design forum and you vote me down and proceed to answer Ravi. Away and raffle your donuts! :mad:
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(This is not a programming question). I have a bunch of
Fooobjects, all of which are controlled by aFooManager. What would you name an object that controls a collection ofFooManagers? [edit]Foo,FooManagerand the manager ofFooManagers are all processes in a distributed system. [/edit] [edit] John C is right - this really does belong in the Design forum. I might have actually got more than a couple of useful answers if I'd posted there in the first place. :-D [/edit] Thanks, /raviMy new year resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | My .NET bits | Freeware ravib(at)ravib(dot)com
modified on Thursday, May 22, 2008 12:49 PM
Ravi Bhavnani wrote:
I have a bunch of Foo objects, all of which are controlled by a FooManager. What would you name an object that controls a collection of FooManagers?
how about FooDirector or FooController (apologies to MVC)? or redefining the level you call something a manager so that that: FooMgr | |FooCollection, FooCol, FooSum, or Foos (yes, plurals are usually a no-no). | | | | Foo, FooItem, or FooDet | | | | Foo | | |FooCollection | | | | Foo | | Foo or you could design the whole Foo to be recursive, such as in System.Collections.Specialized.NameValueCollection, whereby the uppermost level item becomes the parent, or 'manager'. moving to Parent/Child removes the whole Manager concept; that's how the Http Request object is structured. and if that doesn't cover it then this post is probably FooBar :-\
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote:
I have a bunch of Foo objects, all of which are controlled by a FooManager. What would you name an object that controls a collection of FooManagers?
how about FooDirector or FooController (apologies to MVC)? or redefining the level you call something a manager so that that: FooMgr | |FooCollection, FooCol, FooSum, or Foos (yes, plurals are usually a no-no). | | | | Foo, FooItem, or FooDet | | | | Foo | | |FooCollection | | | | Foo | | Foo or you could design the whole Foo to be recursive, such as in System.Collections.Specialized.NameValueCollection, whereby the uppermost level item becomes the parent, or 'manager'. moving to Parent/Child removes the whole Manager concept; that's how the Http Request object is structured. and if that doesn't cover it then this post is probably FooBar :-\
Thanks. I think many folks are missing the point that
FooandFooManageraren't vanilla objects, but running services; hence the need to be able to actively "manage" (rather than simply aggregate) these entities. I've decided to go with my original choice ofFooManagerController, which while quite a tongue twister, explicitly conveys that it controls one or moreFooManagerinstances. /raviMy new year resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | My .NET bits | Freeware ravib(at)ravib(dot)com
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(This is not a programming question). I have a bunch of
Fooobjects, all of which are controlled by aFooManager. What would you name an object that controls a collection ofFooManagers? [edit]Foo,FooManagerand the manager ofFooManagers are all processes in a distributed system. [/edit] [edit] John C is right - this really does belong in the Design forum. I might have actually got more than a couple of useful answers if I'd posted there in the first place. :-D [/edit] Thanks, /raviMy new year resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | My .NET bits | Freeware ravib(at)ravib(dot)com
modified on Thursday, May 22, 2008 12:49 PM
That's Foony, I've been reading these posts when it occured to me how Foocking ridiculous people can be and how Foor they can take things. Foormally, I've foound that my foondest memories have been when I foollowed my heart and struck out on my own. However, this has resulted in my biggest foolures and foollies. Now I'm beginning to realize that I was just fooling myself and that the true foon in life is in foollowing the great ideas of others and fooguring out a way to make them even more foontastic. Just a foought foorom a fooriend here at code project. Don't foorget the lesson I've learned and you will lead a foofulling life, too. Foorever, -Erik
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Lol well at least it actually is a bar. ;)
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(This is not a programming question). I have a bunch of
Fooobjects, all of which are controlled by aFooManager. What would you name an object that controls a collection ofFooManagers? [edit]Foo,FooManagerand the manager ofFooManagers are all processes in a distributed system. [/edit] [edit] John C is right - this really does belong in the Design forum. I might have actually got more than a couple of useful answers if I'd posted there in the first place. :-D [/edit] Thanks, /raviMy new year resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | My .NET bits | Freeware ravib(at)ravib(dot)com
modified on Thursday, May 22, 2008 12:49 PM
FooManagerSquared? :)
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Lol well at least it actually is a bar. ;)
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logan1337 wrote:
at least it actually is a bar.
Hence the name. :) /ravi
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