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    Wags
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    I introduced a colleague to the term "Bobby Tables" the other day, after a discussion about SQL input sanitisation. http://xkcd.com/327/[^] And an electronics engineer friend commented the other day that he used to understand computers when he did "Narrow Code" - meaning assembler - but didn't understand all of this "Wide Code" that I wrote. We also have the term "Green Code" for code comments. Do you have any strange terms for programming / computer related things?

    "...there's what people want to hear, there's what people want to believe, there's everything else, THEN there's the truth!" - New York D.A., The International

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      I introduced a colleague to the term "Bobby Tables" the other day, after a discussion about SQL input sanitisation. http://xkcd.com/327/[^] And an electronics engineer friend commented the other day that he used to understand computers when he did "Narrow Code" - meaning assembler - but didn't understand all of this "Wide Code" that I wrote. We also have the term "Green Code" for code comments. Do you have any strange terms for programming / computer related things?

      "...there's what people want to hear, there's what people want to believe, there's everything else, THEN there's the truth!" - New York D.A., The International

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      vaghelabhavesh
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      Wags wrote:

      We also have the term "Green Code" for code comments.

      I like that. Now I will use that. :-) How about the "Red Code" for code with errors?

      If you fail to plan, you plan to fail! Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person. - Chanakya

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        I introduced a colleague to the term "Bobby Tables" the other day, after a discussion about SQL input sanitisation. http://xkcd.com/327/[^] And an electronics engineer friend commented the other day that he used to understand computers when he did "Narrow Code" - meaning assembler - but didn't understand all of this "Wide Code" that I wrote. We also have the term "Green Code" for code comments. Do you have any strange terms for programming / computer related things?

        "...there's what people want to hear, there's what people want to believe, there's everything else, THEN there's the truth!" - New York D.A., The International

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        How about Blue code - for code with f*ing stupid bugs in it :mad:

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        • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

          How about Blue code - for code with f*ing stupid bugs in it :mad:

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          Wags
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          :)

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            I introduced a colleague to the term "Bobby Tables" the other day, after a discussion about SQL input sanitisation. http://xkcd.com/327/[^] And an electronics engineer friend commented the other day that he used to understand computers when he did "Narrow Code" - meaning assembler - but didn't understand all of this "Wide Code" that I wrote. We also have the term "Green Code" for code comments. Do you have any strange terms for programming / computer related things?

            "...there's what people want to hear, there's what people want to believe, there's everything else, THEN there's the truth!" - New York D.A., The International

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            Brady Kelly
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            Smelly poo?

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            • V vaghelabhavesh

              Wags wrote:

              We also have the term "Green Code" for code comments.

              I like that. Now I will use that. :-) How about the "Red Code" for code with errors?

              If you fail to plan, you plan to fail! Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person. - Chanakya

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              JimmyRopes
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              crudeCodeYogi wrote:

              How about the "Red Code" for code with errors?

              If you haven't made changes to the color scheme in VS2008 for C# red code is quoted literal strings.

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              • W Wags

                I introduced a colleague to the term "Bobby Tables" the other day, after a discussion about SQL input sanitisation. http://xkcd.com/327/[^] And an electronics engineer friend commented the other day that he used to understand computers when he did "Narrow Code" - meaning assembler - but didn't understand all of this "Wide Code" that I wrote. We also have the term "Green Code" for code comments. Do you have any strange terms for programming / computer related things?

                "...there's what people want to hear, there's what people want to believe, there's everything else, THEN there's the truth!" - New York D.A., The International

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                Mark_Wallace
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                "Green code" is cool :) How about "Code blue" for something that causes a lock-up (or coloration of the air).

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                • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                  How about Blue code - for code with f*ing stupid bugs in it :mad:

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                  Mark_Wallace
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                  OriginalGriff wrote:

                  How about Blue code - for code with f*ing stupid bugs in it

                  Apologies for the seeming plagiarism; I should have read more posts before replying.

                  I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                    OriginalGriff wrote:

                    How about Blue code - for code with f*ing stupid bugs in it

                    Apologies for the seeming plagiarism; I should have read more posts before replying.

                    I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                    OriginalGriff
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                    No prob: easy to do! :laugh:

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                    • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                      No prob: easy to do! :laugh:

                      No trees were harmed in the sending of this message; however, a significant number of electrons were slightly inconvenienced. This message is made of fully recyclable Zeros and Ones

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                      Mark_Wallace
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                      So I can steal more of your ideas? Great! :):):)

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                        Smelly poo?

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                        Brady Kelly
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                        Oh dear, another incontinent incompetent in-a-bad-place little child voted me down for saying 'poo'? I hope you get another wife besides your mother before you catch your sister's clamidia from your father.

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                          Oh dear, another incontinent incompetent in-a-bad-place little child voted me down for saying 'poo'? I hope you get another wife besides your mother before you catch your sister's clamidia from your father.

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                          Brady Kelly
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                          Come now child, you're making me feel more smug than I did earlier you stupid poes.

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                            Come now child, you're making me feel more smug than I did earlier you stupid poes.

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                            Mark_Wallace
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                            That's 111, so far, which is OK, but you need a couple of zeroes interspersed. (It wasn't me, BTW)

                            I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                              That's 111, so far, which is OK, but you need a couple of zeroes interspersed. (It wasn't me, BTW)

                              I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                              Brady Kelly
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                              Mark Wallace wrote:

                              (It wasn't me, BTW)

                              Duh!

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                                I introduced a colleague to the term "Bobby Tables" the other day, after a discussion about SQL input sanitisation. http://xkcd.com/327/[^] And an electronics engineer friend commented the other day that he used to understand computers when he did "Narrow Code" - meaning assembler - but didn't understand all of this "Wide Code" that I wrote. We also have the term "Green Code" for code comments. Do you have any strange terms for programming / computer related things?

                                "...there's what people want to hear, there's what people want to believe, there's everything else, THEN there's the truth!" - New York D.A., The International

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                                Gary R Wheeler
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                                My group uses the term "flush and fill" to stand for reformatting and reinstalling the OS. We make commercial ink-jet printing systems. Occasionally you have to 'flush' the ink handling hardware with a cleaning fluid, and then re'fill' it from the supply tank to remove clogs and contaminants.

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                                  I introduced a colleague to the term "Bobby Tables" the other day, after a discussion about SQL input sanitisation. http://xkcd.com/327/[^] And an electronics engineer friend commented the other day that he used to understand computers when he did "Narrow Code" - meaning assembler - but didn't understand all of this "Wide Code" that I wrote. We also have the term "Green Code" for code comments. Do you have any strange terms for programming / computer related things?

                                  "...there's what people want to hear, there's what people want to believe, there's everything else, THEN there's the truth!" - New York D.A., The International

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                                  Erik Westermann
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                                  Wags wrote:

                                  Do you have any strange terms for programming / computer related things?

                                  "Code complete" for code we think meets the requirements or spec. In reality, the code is junk because the end users changed their mind the moment that the developers started working, and of course, did not update the specs :D

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                                  • B Brady Kelly

                                    Mark Wallace wrote:

                                    (It wasn't me, BTW)

                                    Duh!

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                                    Mark_Wallace
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                                    Brady Kelly wrote:

                                    Mark Wallace wrote:(It wasn't me, BTW) Duh!

                                    Well, you never know what people might think. Messengers do get killed.

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                                      I introduced a colleague to the term "Bobby Tables" the other day, after a discussion about SQL input sanitisation. http://xkcd.com/327/[^] And an electronics engineer friend commented the other day that he used to understand computers when he did "Narrow Code" - meaning assembler - but didn't understand all of this "Wide Code" that I wrote. We also have the term "Green Code" for code comments. Do you have any strange terms for programming / computer related things?

                                      "...there's what people want to hear, there's what people want to believe, there's everything else, THEN there's the truth!" - New York D.A., The International

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                                      Wags wrote:

                                      We also have the term "Green Code" for code comments.

                                      Hmmm, I just call them "comments".

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