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Ahhhrgghhhhhh! Naming Conventions That Suck

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  • M Mark_Wallace

    Ax him ta fix it 4 u

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

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    Super Lloyd
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    exactly bro!! :laugh:

    A train station is where the train stops. A bus station is where the bus stops. On my desk, I have a work station.... _________________________________________________________ My programs never have bugs, they just develop random features.

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    • S SockPuppeteer

      We have a txt naming dev here at the coalface. So I am plagued with method names like AddChild2Parent and KeepUp2Date Jeez! it's one flaming character you're saving yourself! it drives me 2 distraction!

      .\\axxx

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      jim lahey
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      We've got people who insist on prefixing everything with the first letter of the company we work for, "so that we know what is ours and what isn't". Namespaces are not enough it seems.

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      • M Mark_Wallace

        It's a "fusion" (since that's the in word) of gigantic and enormous, and therefore a calculated and appropriate use of poor English for this thread, innit?

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

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        grralph1
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        Thanks Mark for the clarification. One would think that, someone with my intelligence, would have realised this immediately. I misread it and my brain mispronouced it and I got excited about a new word. I do like fusion words though. Your clarification has cleared the whole issue. ...and made me feel a bit dumb Thanks

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        • S Super Lloyd

          I mean humongous, my bad! :( you know, so gigantic it's preposterous!!!

          A train station is where the train stops. A bus station is where the bus stops. On my desk, I have a work station.... _________________________________________________________ My programs never have bugs, they just develop random features.

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          grralph1
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          It wasn't bad. It was a great description and I have a new word to add to my vocab...

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          • M Mark_Wallace

            Ax him ta fix it 4 u

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

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            dan sh
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            Mark Wallace wrote:

            Ax him ta fix it 4 u

            FTFY

            "Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[^]

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            • S SockPuppeteer

              We have a txt naming dev here at the coalface. So I am plagued with method names like AddChild2Parent and KeepUp2Date Jeez! it's one flaming character you're saving yourself! it drives me 2 distraction!

              .\\axxx

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              Abhinav S
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              SockPuppeteer wrote:

              Ahhhrgghhhhhh

              That sounds like a good variable name.

              WP7.5 Apps - XKCD | Calvin | SMBC | Sound Meter | Speed Dial

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              • G grralph1

                Thanks Mark for the clarification. One would think that, someone with my intelligence, would have realised this immediately. I misread it and my brain mispronouced it and I got excited about a new word. I do like fusion words though. Your clarification has cleared the whole issue. ...and made me feel a bit dumb Thanks

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                Brady Kelly
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                Guys, there is a proper name for 'fusion words'. Ginormous is a portmanteau.

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                • D dan sh

                  Mark Wallace wrote:

                  Ax him ta fix it 4 u

                  FTFY

                  "Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[^]

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                  Rage
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                  This is brilliant on many levels.

                  ~RaGE();

                  I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb

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                  • J jim lahey

                    We've got people who insist on prefixing everything with the first letter of the company we work for, "so that we know what is ours and what isn't". Namespaces are not enough it seems.

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                    Mark_Wallace
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                    Take advantage of it, e.g. if your company name starts with "W", use a lot of anchors.

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

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                    • B Brady Kelly

                      Guys, there is a proper name for 'fusion words'. Ginormous is a portmanteau.

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                      Mark_Wallace
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                      <Turns up nose> Oh, you are so out of vogue... <Restores nose to its original shape>

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

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                      • M Mark_Wallace

                        <Turns up nose> Oh, you are so out of vogue... <Restores nose to its original shape>

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

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                        Brady Kelly
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                        I know. Grumpy old man I am.

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                        • R Rage

                          This is brilliant on many levels.

                          ~RaGE();

                          I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb

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                          Mark_Wallace
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                          It has to be, because when you chop a bit off one leg, it still wobbles, so you have to chop an bit off the other, but it'll still wobble, so you have to... etc.

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

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                          • M Mark_Wallace

                            Take advantage of it, e.g. if your company name starts with "W", use a lot of anchors.

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

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                            jim lahey
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                            Unfortunately it doesn't, otherwise it's a genius idea. It's as good as the vandalised road sign in Tamworth that points to Ankerside. I think you know the rest. I'm trying to keep my ranting as anonymous as possible so unfortunately I can't tell you some of the odd and amusing things this naming convention has created, there are a few. Attempting to reason with this mentality is akin to trying to kick water up hill. I can get my revenge in other ways though. The same people who like to pointlessly prefix stuff are also allergic to anything development-related that is more recent than 1995. We've already integrated Dependency Injection, MVC, WCF, NHibernate, Moq and AOP into a couple of projects and these are the topics I use for my tech talk sessions so they are just going to have to sit there quietly for an hour at a time and listen to me talk about stuff they refuse to understand.

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                            • B Brady Kelly

                              Guys, there is a proper name for 'fusion words'. Ginormous is a portmanteau.

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                              grralph1
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                              Excellent Brad I remember hearing this word before and now you have brought it back… Portmanteau That’s 3 things that I have learnt today Thanks

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                              • A Abhinav S

                                SockPuppeteer wrote:

                                Ahhhrgghhhhhh

                                That sounds like a good variable name.

                                WP7.5 Apps - XKCD | Calvin | SMBC | Sound Meter | Speed Dial

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                                Richard Deeming
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                                Is that the castle of Ahhhrgghhhhhh[^]? ;P


                                "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer

                                "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined" - Homer

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                                • M Mark_Wallace

                                  It's a "fusion" (since that's the in word) of gigantic and enormous, and therefore a calculated and appropriate use of poor English for this thread, innit?

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

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                                  jsc42
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                                  Mark Wallace wrote:

                                  poor English

                                  My standard reference of what is valid English (The Oxford Compact English Dictionary [1996 hard back edition]) has an entry for "ginormous" but marks it as adj. Brit. slang. So it is OK for use in ordinary parlance but not acceptable for Scrabble (although, I understand that in recent years the 'accepatbility' criteria for Scrabble has been relaxed); but using 'OK' is not acceptable as it is a mangled abbreviation.

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                                  • S SockPuppeteer

                                    We have a txt naming dev here at the coalface. So I am plagued with method names like AddChild2Parent and KeepUp2Date Jeez! it's one flaming character you're saving yourself! it drives me 2 distraction!

                                    .\\axxx

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                                    Rob Grainger
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                                    Ah yes, that along with B2B applications - obviously the work of a text kid. Get over it.

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                                    • M Mark_Wallace

                                      It's a "fusion" (since that's the in word) of gigantic and enormous, and therefore a calculated and appropriate use of poor English for this thread, innit?

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

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                                      H Brydon
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                                      Mark Wallace wrote:

                                      It's a "fusion" (since that's the in word) of gigantic and enormous, and therefore a calculated and appropriate use of poor English for this thread, innit?

                                      Absatively. That kind of usage is posilutely underwhelming.

                                      -- Harvey

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