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September 05, 2002
Generating code names
While trying to come up with possible "code names" for a new software release I found the following.
- An excellent overall resource for generating names of all sorts.
- Ftrain: Operation Wild Badger, which generates mock names for military operations. It includes a link to this interesting Washington Post article on how names for military operations are really chosen.
- Another sort of autogeneration is this generator of tag lines for "buddy" cop shows
Comments
A good story about code names is in my note
"Project names and Borges Numbers."
http://www.multicians.org/thvv/dumey.html
For many uses, you want a code name that
conveys as little as possible, especially
about siblings of the named.
A long time ago, I worked in an organization
where we wanted to have code names for the
projects that would eventually become software
releases, because we didn't want to commit to
a particular release number. One proposal was
to name the projects after diseases. "I'm working
on Influenza now, and after that I'll go on
to Tuberculosis." We gave up on that because
nobody could spell the names.
Posted by: Tom Van Vleck on September 7, 2002 10:14 AM
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