[olug] Developers with a sense of humor, or lack of maturity?

[Dan Anderson]

I'd vote for funny...

Years ago I worked with an Lt at HQ SAC who wrote a slick "dashboard"
type app that took textual network status reports and displayed them
graphically on a map.  He called it "Global Oriented Network Automated
Display System"...  I think it was officially shortened to "NADS" -
which was still just as funny.

A few years later my programming team was tasked with writing a "file
ingest" process, which was basically a custom FTP server.  In the RFC
for FTP it suggests that the server offer a "Friendly" greeting upon
connection.  In "tribute" to one of the SSgt's, from the south, who
worked with us, our "friendly" greeting was "Howdy Yall!  Geet yet?"

I suppose they could both be technically considered unprofessional,
but maybe sometimes it is worth sacrificing a little professionalism
in the name of morale.

Dan

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Jay Swackhamer <Jay at reboottheuser.com> wrote:
> A little of both? I find this amusing.
>
> A 'LaTeX' project called 'rubber'
>
> *  dev-tex/rubber
>       Latest version available: 1.1_p20080323
>       Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
>       Size of files: 83 kB
>       Homepage:      http://iml.univ-mrs.fr/~beffara/soft/rubber/
>       Description:   A LaTeX wrapper for automatically building documents
>       License:       GPL-2
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