Naming
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Another.VCProj Some.VCProj TestApp.VCProj Temp345.VCProj HereGoes.VCProj And so on here. :)
There are some really weird people on this planet - MIM.
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Never let us coders pick the name: 1) I called a project for Avon and Somerset Police LOLOLO 2) For the AA it was RELAY 3) And my PM tried really hard to get Computer Line Integrated Test Or Repair Information System off the ground...
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
:laugh: Unfortunately, I have to pick the names for my personnal projects...
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WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong.VCProj.
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Trollslayer wrote:
WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong.VCProj WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong.VBProj.
Le..Me..Fi..Fy.. (LMFIFY) :)
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How do you come up with your projects' names? Seriously, I have lots of ideas that go to waste just because I can't find a name...
'foo', 'junk',... :rolleyes:
If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong. -- Iain Clarke
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How do you come up with your projects' names? Seriously, I have lots of ideas that go to waste just because I can't find a name...
With my eyes shut, I open an encyclopaedia at a random location and point to a topic and wherever I land becomes the codename. It's known as the Womble effect.
I have CDO, it's OCD with the letters in the right order; just as they ruddy well should be
Forgive your enemies - it messes with their heads
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How do you come up with your projects' names? Seriously, I have lots of ideas that go to waste just because I can't find a name...
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Give it a name that has absolutely nothing to do with its purpose, then give a different (but similarly inappropriate) name to its executable. Then you have to name the installation program "setup.exe", and include a readme file that only states system requirements, and does not give a clue as to what the program is or does. And make sure that the installer installs the program in a subdirectory of PF that is named after what you might name a company if you owned one (or after a favourite uncle; something like that), and that any Start menu shortcuts are also placed in a subdirectory with a name that says nothing whatsoever about the program itself. Once you have implemented all of these points, you may freely enter the realm of professional shareware developers.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
Mark Wallace wrote:
include a readme file that only states system requirements
Also make sure the requirements are completely random as well.
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You still have to think of a name, sooner or later...
Only if the project survives.
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How do you come up with your projects' names? Seriously, I have lots of ideas that go to waste just because I can't find a name...
Use an acronym or short form of an immediate parent software or system as a preffix followed by simple or common verb. This links your development effort to something well-known and gives stakeholders a software label that serves a one-word software specification. Example: Widget Company is having software system built for scheduling product development called Widget Development Scheduler (WDS). You as a separate contractor are writing a subsystem that should analyze schedules, hence, you should name your project WDSAnalyzer.
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Another.VCProj Some.VCProj TestApp.VCProj Temp345.VCProj HereGoes.VCProj And so on here. :)
There are some really weird people on this planet - MIM.
I did one titled "MaybeThisTimeEh", it worked on the first compile and the support staff were in a rush so I had to release it as was (internally only). It's quite funny when you hear support staff using the phrase "maybe this time eh" over the phone. I offered to rename it but they won't. Embarrassing but funny.
Prepare to put mustard on those words, for you will soon be consuming them along with this slice of humble pie, that comes direct from the oven of shame, set at gas mark 'egg on your face'.
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How do you come up with your projects' names? Seriously, I have lots of ideas that go to waste just because I can't find a name...
Fabio V Silva wrote:
Seriously, I have lots of ideas that go to waste just because I can't find a name...
Oh to be young again! ;)
“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea” - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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How do you come up with your projects' names? Seriously, I have lots of ideas that go to waste just because I can't find a name...
Do what we do - outsource the job to a proctologist with a flashlight.
Will Rogers never met me.
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I did one titled "MaybeThisTimeEh", it worked on the first compile and the support staff were in a rush so I had to release it as was (internally only). It's quite funny when you hear support staff using the phrase "maybe this time eh" over the phone. I offered to rename it but they won't. Embarrassing but funny.
Prepare to put mustard on those words, for you will soon be consuming them along with this slice of humble pie, that comes direct from the oven of shame, set at gas mark 'egg on your face'.
LOL :thumbsup:
WE ARE DYSLEXIC OF BORG. Refutance is systile. Your a$$ will be laminated. There are 10 kinds of people in the world: People who know binary and people who don't.
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Do what we do - outsource the job to a proctologist with a flashlight.
Will Rogers never met me.
That's marketing.
I have CDO, it's OCD with the letters in the right order; just as they ruddy well should be
Forgive your enemies - it messes with their heads
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If I pay less, can I not have the Artificial Stupidity, please?
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
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How do you come up with your projects' names? Seriously, I have lots of ideas that go to waste just because I can't find a name...
I always look for something that can be used as a good, short namespace with about three letters. My current namespace in a (private) project is FoC. While playing a game, one of the characters appeared with the line 'Forces of chaos, bow to me!'. 'Forces of Chaos' was a great name for the project in a direct sense (using evolutionary algorithms) and in a sarcastic sense (regarding the people involved), so it stuck.
A while ago he asked me what he should have printed on my business cards. I said 'Wizard'. I read books which nobody else understand. Then I do something which nobody understands. After that the computer does something which nobody understands. When asked, I say things about the results which nobody understand. But everybody expects miracles from me on a regular basis. Looks to me like the classical definition of a wizard.
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Only if the project survives.
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How do you come up with your projects' names? Seriously, I have lots of ideas that go to waste just because I can't find a name...
Had to write a COM component in VB6 that performed a HTTP Post of a file from one server to another... called it COMPost.
Kevin Rucker, Application Programmer QSS Group, Inc. United States Coast Guard OSC Kevin.D.Rucker@uscg.mil "Programming is an art form that fights back." -- Chad Hower
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How do you come up with your projects' names? Seriously, I have lots of ideas that go to waste just because I can't find a name...
My favorite name for my test or prototype projects in any platform is 'Codename Xero'. And we always have a code name for our project, some living examples are 'Mark 6', RubberDuck, HummingBird, LazyDog, AlleyCat, Glue etc. :) I would like to see some code names from the members as well.
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How do you come up with your projects' names? Seriously, I have lots of ideas that go to waste just because I can't find a name...
last projects had to deal with Shipping and handling items. so I named it shitems and did not notice it till it went into production as a web directory.
