Comments | ouatic_7: Jargon Ahoy!

ouatic_7

Jargon Ahoy!

Jan 29, 2009 05:44

My boss, R, likes metrics. I like metrics. We have been in a slow period so I have been working on an application that combines code coverage, a good thing, with complexity, a bad thing, to highlight methods that might need further tests or refactoring ( Read more... )

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nokomarie January 29 2009, 15:46:40 UTC

Your poor knees and those are terrible names.

ouatic_7 January 29 2009, 23:43:16 UTC

This is what happens when you have engineers name stuff. Or everything has a Simpsons/Star Trek name.

fenikkusuken January 29 2009, 18:33:46 UTC

*chortle* I rather liked 'Mashup'!

You could've also gone with a variation on 'George' to go with the Jane Austen-ish 'Emma', or 'Honey' to go with 'Clover' if you wanted to sneak in a manga ref.

ouatic_7 January 29 2009, 23:44:58 UTC

I was afraid if I stuck with "Mashup" someone would officiously inform me that it wasn't.

Emma might be a manga/anime ref all on its own.

alterfano January 30 2009, 02:21:01 UTC

i kinda like Methlab:)

ouatic_7 January 30 2009, 03:11:03 UTC

I mentioned it at work today to positive response but I think if I'd tried to use it I would have been shot down.

When I make my own open source thingy I'll use it.

alterfano January 30 2009, 03:22:48 UTC

LOL. good use of it then

black_lavender January 30 2009, 02:47:29 UTC

How about EmmaBeans? Some obscure play on the java and coffee...

Accountants probably shouldn't name stuff, either.

ouatic_7 January 30 2009, 03:14:10 UTC

Silly Lavender! A bean is something specific in Java and all of the other engineers would have pointed at me and laughed in a derisory manner.

Oh! You didn't know Java has beans?

black_lavender January 31 2009, 00:12:05 UTC

My knowledge of java extends as far as knowing it's not a cup of coffee. No more.

And yet, oddly, accountants refer to themselves as 'bean counters'.

ouatic_7 January 31 2009, 00:30:33 UTC

What do you think accountants should call themselves?

Have you ever read any of the Vorkosigan books by Bujold? On Barrayar, the highest office below the Emperor is Imperial Auditor. And the Counts aren't called "Count" from counties but because they are descended from the imperial accountants/tax collectors. Apparently, being the tax collector in a feudal society is a full contact occupation.

45cats January 30 2009, 14:30:49 UTC

I'm pretty bad at picking names. I like Knotscape, it has kind of an RPG world feel to it.

Then again, I liked Crockpot as well until I read Knotscape.

I'm only familiar with the tools I live with/near so I have no frame of reference. I really only stopped by to say hi! :)

ouatic_7 January 31 2009, 00:00:38 UTC

Hi!

I'm only familiar with the tools I live with/near so I have no frame of reference.

I'm sure they are less useful.