Programming related terms you have coined or heard.

[abhijit]

I coined "Ping-pong webservice" to describe a webservice that gets a request, sends it to another webservice and then returns the response sent by that webservice to the client that called it.

Another term, I have heard at our workplace is "Trash Report" to indicate a report that is completely useless and deserves to be trashed. Some of the reports filed to describe bugs faced by our users fall in this category.

Example report: Subject: "Application crashed. Please help."
Description: "Application crashed. Please help."

[TheBigB]

Example report: Subject: "Application crashed. Please help."
Description: "Application crashed. Please help."

I often get those too

[abhijit]

I often get those too

Hit the delete key and trash those mails.

[FireXtol]

I got tired of troubleshooting user error. So I just tell them they're doing it wrong, or that it's really a feature.

Or if they're really pesky, I get them to open up a command prompt and type out the command to recursively delete every file on their C drive without prompting. Then I charge them for reinstalling Windows. Suckers.

[abhijit]

I got tired of troubleshooting user error. So I just tell them they're doing it wrong, or that it's really a feature.

Or if they're really pesky, I get them to open up a command prompt and type out the command to recursively delete every file on their C drive without prompting. Then I charge them for reinstalling Windows. Suckers.

How many jobs have you had so far?

[mendhak]

I coined "SOA" one day when I was feeling too lazy to write a certain function. I convinced everyone that the function should live somewhere else.

Now there's an entire industry centered around this gaffe.

[FireXtol]

How many jobs have you had so far?

Too many. They always ask what "deltree" is for. I tell them it's delegate tree! Yea! It's makes everything on your computer faster by speeding up folder(trees) traversal. It'll make your computer boot faster!

Technically... I'm not lying. Every computer is faster without Windows. And without Windows to boot to, it's also booting faster.

[TheBigB]

I coined "SOA" one day

In Dutch that is the abbreviation for STD

[Milk]

Wild night in Amsterdam, BigB?

[TheBigB]

What did visualAd exactly tell you?

[abhijit]

Too many. They always ask what "deltree" is for. I tell them it's delegate tree! Yea! It's makes everything on your computer faster by speeding up folder(trees) traversal. It'll make your computer boot faster!

Technically... I'm not lying. Every computer is faster without Windows. And without Windows to boot to, it's also booting faster.

DELTREE? Which version of Windows are you on?

[JuggaloBrotha]

How many jobs have you had so far?

According to the teen programmers thread here, he's 12, so I'd think he hasn't had a job yet. At least not an actual professional job yet, probably just friends and family's computers, installing drivers or whatever.

Too many. They always ask what "deltree" is for. I tell them it's delegate tree! Yea! It's makes everything on your computer faster by speeding up folder(trees) traversal. It'll make your computer boot faster!

Technically... I'm not lying. Every computer is faster without Windows. And without Windows to boot to, it's also booting faster.

Ahh, the good ol' DOS 2.0 to 6.22 days when that command was actually useful.

[Hack]

I invented "UTabKim" (pronounced - U tab Kim), which translated loosely, means "You've got to be kidding me"

It also means that when translated tightly.

[abhijit]

I invented "UTabKim" (pronounced - U tab Kim), which translated loosely, means "You've got to be kidding me"

It also means that when translated tightly.

What does it mean if you don't translate it?

[abhijit]

According to the teen programmers thread here, he's 12, so I'd think he hasn't had a job yet. At least not an actual professional job yet, probably just friends and family's computers, installing drivers or whatever.Ahh, the good ol' DOS 2.0 to 6.22 days when that command was actually useful.

I believe you still have the rmdir command that can do that with a switch.

[Hack]

What does it mean if you don't translate it?

Utabkim

[MarMan]

We had a guy who would design the user interfaces. He was a nice guy, but would be annoying sometimes. He became know as the user-in-your-face guy.

[baja_yu]

I invented the term (when visiting Thailand) 'ding-dong service', but I doubt I'd be allowed to explain it here.

[FireXtol]

According to the teen programmers thread here, he's 12, so I'd think he hasn't had a job yet. At least not an actual professional job yet, probably just friends and family's computers, installing drivers or whatever.Ahh, the good ol' DOS 2.0 to 6.22 days when that command was actually useful.

I've never posted in that thread. But don't let what I say stop you from your endeavor to be consistently wrong. You're doing a great job at it! Keep it up.

[abhijit]

I heard another term "Sometimes error", which stands for an error that can not be reproduced, except sometimes.

[abhijit]

I invented the term (when visiting Thailand) 'ding-dong service', but I doubt I'd be allowed to explain it here.

"Ding" is the term used to describe instant messaging in our shop. That's the sound the client makes when someone sends you a message. So you'll hear "Ding me when you're done with your meeting", several times throughout the course of the day.

"Dong" is the currency measure in Vietnam. The more Dong you have, the richer you are.

[Spetnik]

Binary Compulsion

[JuggaloBrotha]

Binary Compulsion

I've heard the term "Binary Convulsion", though I'm not sure what the person was referring to exactly

[Spetnik]

I've heard the term "Binary Convulsion", though I'm not sure what the person was referring to exactly

It's Binary Compulsion and wonder no more: http://www.spetnik.com/binary.php

[JuggaloBrotha]

It's Binary Compulsion and wonder no more: http://www.spetnik.com/binary.php

Well that makes sense, I guess the guy was coining a slam against Spetnik and I wasn't familiar with it.

[abhijit]

Binary Compulsion

Hey Spetnik,
I tried to use your SQL Stinger, but I am not sure how to give the website name. I tried to give www.vbforums.com and the select query said "select * from users". It said Invalid Sql syntax.

how does that work?

[Spetnik]

Did the error message say "most likely because of a syntax error"? That does not mean that there is a syntax error, rather the query failed for some other possible reason (such as the server running the Binary Compulsion Regulator). Many times, though, database servers are protected only from retrieval queries, while update, delete, and truncate queries seem to run fine). Try different query types on different sites until you find one that works .

[Merrion]

bgu - any thread synchronisation error

[baja_yu]

"Ding" is the term used to describe instant messaging in our shop. That's the sound the client makes when someone sends you a message. So you'll hear "Ding me when you're done with your meeting", several times throughout the course of the day.

"Dong" is the currency measure in Vietnam. The more Dong you have, the richer you are.

This wasn't related to instant messengers or money... well, it was related to money, but not programming.

[abhijit]

This wasn't related to instant messengers or money... well, it was related to money, but not programming.

The Vietnamese are a clever people.

[mendhak]

Hey Spetnik,
I tried to use your SQL Stinger, but I am not sure how to give the website name. I tried to give www.vbforums.com and the select query said "select * from users". It said Invalid Sql syntax.

how does that work?

[Spetnik]

Mendhak. Thanks for making me crack up! But seriously, try an UPDATE, DELETE, or TRUNCATE statement .

[FunkyDexter]

I once heard Barry Cryer describe a bug as a "Negatively Aspecting Undocumented Feature"

[wossname]

Error Code 0x000000bb (187)

User has died mysteriously.

[Max Peck]

When I make complex low-level changes to our rules logic I call it "bending hyperspace".

-Max

[abhijit]

I think I coined another programming term.

"A cock-up": The error that results in the feeling where database and system adminstrators get to say "I told you so"

As in, the file deletion resulted in a major cock-up for the windows admin.