How do you name your project?

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I am currently using some very boring yet descriptive names for my projects. Such as "IssueTracker" for issue tracker, "Forum" for forum, etc. Are there any cool ways to name your project?

Simon_Whale

Sub project names we use description of animals at the moment we like badgers (why please dont ask me as even I dont know) and we named the internal report engine to the new underwriting system Boogle (as this has something to do with the description of a collection of badgers)

Lobster Thermidor aux crevettes with a Mornay sauce, served in a Provençale manner with shallots and aubergines, garnished with truffle pate, brandy and a fried egg on top and Spam - Monty Python Spam Sketch

OriginalGriff

Loads: 1) Open the dictionary with your eyes shut. Stab the page with a finger. 2) Use an acronym that describes it's use. Can be a problem if you are developing Projects Examining New Infrastructure Systems. 3) Go to a Pr0n site at random. Whatever actor / actress / position / body part is under your mouse is your project name. 4) Name them after people you admire. Use on the first name. "Winston" and "Marilyn" are ok, but watch out for "Elvis"

Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."

Gary R Wheeler

One of our recent new product developments was code-named "Mississippi" by the Pointy-Haired Bosses. I code-named our part of the product "Delta", since all of the crap in the 'river' piles up in our lap. But that's not all! We've now been tasked with developing a new version of the product, a sort of minute difference from the Delta (δ). Of course, I named this one Epsilon (ε).

Software Zen: delete this;

Keith Barrow

Name Ironically/For your own amusement. I named my last project "Synergi" because marketing got involved and the mentally restricted people staff there liked the buzzword.

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OriginalGriff

I managed to get away with a project for the Avon and Somerset Police called LOLOLO once. The customer was amused, anyway...

Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."

R Giskard Reventlov

I think of a word I want to use and then translate it to Latin and use that. Why? Why not?

"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair. nils illegitimus carborundum me, me, me

David C Hobbyist

I use very descriptive Names! It Makes since to me that a Project's name should say what it's usage will be.

Frazzle the name say's it all

PIEBALDconsult

Re: 2) We had endless hours of fun trying to name a system a few years back, my favorite suggestion was: Transportation Information Tracking System.

OriginalGriff

A friend of mine (Oi! Bradbury! Are you still alive?) tried to get a project called Computerized Line Integrated Test Or Repair Information System through when he worked for BT. He boss was just about to sign the order for project ties when he noticed the acronym... :sigh:

Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."

PIEBALDconsult

Those seem like very good/sensible names. On my last assignment I wrote a FieldMapper and a ParameterLoader. For my own code I choose whatever catches my fancy (see my articles). However, using names that are more "fun" can make an otherwise dreary task more enjoyable.

PIEBALDconsult

I'm a fan of garden railways, the name I have in mind for if I ever build one is the Canyon Lands and Indian Territory.

Mike Hankey

I tried number one when trying to think of a name for my current project and stabbed "Flatulence"?

C'est What?

OriginalGriff

I'm going to stop there, before I get this thread moved to the soapbox... :-O

Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."

OriginalGriff

Does it involve the potential release of toxic gases?

Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."

Mike Hankey

OriginalGriff wrote:

Does it involve the potential release of toxic gases?

No but not sure how bad it may stink. (Depends on user acceptance)

C'est What?

Bert Mitton

Usually I use a descriptive name during development, and change the name later in the process. However, I have about a hundred projects with "Test" somewhere in the name, where I was just playing around learning something or other, or trying a new idea I had. I don't think I have ever deleted a test project, although now I don't know how to tell them apart anymore. I guess I'm just not that creative. :-D

JimmyRopes

" How do you name your project?" I use descriptive names for my projects, such as "IssueTracker" for issue tracker, "Forum" for forum, etc. :-D

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DaveyM69

:badger:

Dave
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DaveyM69

I wrote an email splitting utility for processing incoming notifications from the courier we use at work, it's called: City Link Imap Tracker

Dave
Binging is like googling, it just feels dirtier. Please take your VB.NET out of our nice case sensitive forum. Astonish us. Be exceptional. (Pete O'Hanlon)
BTW, in software, hope and pray is not a viable strategy. (Luc Pattyn)