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

[Dave Thacker]

On Wednesday 13 August 2008 21:45:23 Dan Anderson wrote:
> 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.

Many years ago I wrote a couple reports for my former employer.  

Daily Source of Business-dlysob.4ge
Activity Analysis-actanal.4ge

Dave
>
> 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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