How do you name your project?

[hairy_hats]

Simon_Whale wrote:

we use description of animals

You project is called "SmallBlackAndWhiteNocturnalMammalThatLivesInSettsAndEatsSlugsAndWorms"?

[GParkings]

I once worked on an visual drag & drop editor for a proprietary scripting language, the devloper who wrote the language called it STRUDEL (Standardized Trigger and RUle DEfinition Language), so of course i had to call the editor project APPLE (Application for Programming by Placement of Logical Elements) ... we had a good old chuckle at that, our boss, however, grumped for ages over that one

Pedis ex oris

[Member 2053006]

I tend to use the Leonard of Quirm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_of_the_Discworld#Leonard_of_Quirm[^] technique of naming things. I guess I am just not imaginative enough. My boss prefers acronyms if possible. Fortunately we can mostly agree on a project name... after it has been released. ;-)

[dazfuller]

For the finished product they tend to have fairly boring and descriptive names, however I use to work for a company where all projects in development were named after Russian satellites. Another popular one we used at a different company were names from Greek mythology.

[Andrew Leeder]

I once worked on an Activity Planning system for a new startup company. The project was appropriately named NAP (Newco Activity Planning). The new company was formed and has christned Keir Rogers So NAP became KRAP overnight. ~A

[Julien Villers]

Mine is called "SeveralSpeciesOfSmallFurryAnimalsGatheredTogetherInACaveAndGroovingWithAPict", so why not :D

'As programmers go, I'm fairly social. Which still means I'm a borderline sociopath by normal standards.' Jeff Atwood

[Rakesh Meel]

Projects name Depend on projects concept.

[KLPounds]

Weird.. I actually had an inhouse debug tool that I called "Ummagumma". Most of my project names are inspired by some sort of music or movie loosely based on the projects functionality. Jude - "Julian calendar conversion tool" CommaChameleon - "CSV to other data source translator" Gumby - "In House bug tracker... don't ask" Pokey - "ASP.NET UI for Gumby but killed to move to a commercial bugtracking package." Wall-E - "tool I wrote to check and clean up garbage data due to a bug in the ERP software" not to mention the shameless matrix references for our test environments..

[Fabio Franco]

Since I work only on enterprise projects and never for the masses I never put much thought to a project name, so usually they look like this: 1 - BoringAspNet 2 - BoringWindowsForms 3 - BoringService 4 - BoringDAL 5 - BoringBLL 6 - BoringServiceLayer 7 - BoringDomainModel In the end, they worked. If you want a cool name, well, you need to be a little creative and if you're like me, you'll need to ask someone else for a suggestion.

"To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems" - Homer Simpson

[Alan Balkany]

In my company, our German group named the projects for two software components after strippers they knew.

[BrainiacV]

In a similar vein, when rumors were flying that layoffs were imminent, many choose to jump ship first, so we proposed changing the name of our department to: Integrated Quality User Information Technology

Psychosis at 10 Film at 11 Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it. Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.

[BrainiacV]

I frequently name my projects Curt Rostenbach Application Programs.

Psychosis at 10 Film at 11 Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it. Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.

[Alexander DiMauro]

The biggest problem with naming projects is finding out what web addresses are actually available. Many a name I had to drop because someone somewhere already had the website name registered. To make things worse, ~90% (not an exaggeration) of those are NOT even being used! I have one project that I am already pretty well into that still has no name. I just game the project file a generic name, and I'm hoping some time in the next couple months I'll be able to think of a snazzy name that hasn't been taken yet. That's the biggest aggravation. People just buy up names for no other purpose than to extort others when they actually need them. I even dropped my registration for a couple of names because I didn't need them anymore. And, within a couple of weeks, someone had already bought them up and sent me an email asking me if I wanted to buy them back from them! :mad::mad: There must be some way to reclaim all these unused addresses. One statistic I saw, I don't remember the exact number, but it was something like only around 15% of all web addresses registered are active sites. If you are a big company, buying them isn't an issue, but for personal projects, many good names are lost, and it's a shame.

The world is going to laugh at you anyway, might as well crack the 1st joke! Have you tried turning it off and on again? Have you tried forcing an unexpected reboot?

[ghaberek]

Pick a foreign language, then translate one or more nouns or adjectives related your product into that language and combine them in some way. Just have fun with it and see what you can come up with!

-Greg

[MacSpudster]

"PITA" followed by a sequential. There's always some major entity (computer, person, etc.), of every project that, well, is a pain in the arse (PITA). Of course, as lead programmer it's never me...

~ [Don't] Visual[ize the] Basic[s], C#[ly instead] ~ ASPX: Apple Simply Performs eXcellently

[RodClark]

Always love a really obscure reference to old Pink Floyd songs... ;P

[jschell]

.jpg wrote:

Are there any cool ways to name your project?

I think it is quite "cool" to name projects with names that describe the project. As a professional developer and someone that knows that between 50% and 90% of the total cost of any application originates from maintenance and not the initial development I attempt to produce code that will be easy to maintain. And I certainly think that descriptive names are more likely to achieve that than fun ones are.