Posted onAug 2, 2020

Interesting naming you have come across?

#discuss #watercooler #naming #cat

Just to say, today I came across a package,

And it is not a typo.

Also, NaN Monthly downloads

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Thomas Rayner

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• Aug 3 '20

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I once worked with a sysadmin who named all his servers after specialty coffees, but was terrible at spelling. So there were servers namedespreso,esspreso, andespresso... Repeat for cappuccino, and latte.

Ben Halpern

A Canadian software developer who thinks he’s funny.

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• Aug 2 '20

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I sort of like that the popular HTTP client for Ruby is called HTTP "Party"

jnunemaker / httparty

🎉 Makes http fun again!

httparty

Makes http fun again! Ain't no party like a httparty, because a httparty don't stop.

Install

gem install httparty

Requirements

Ruby 2.0.0 or higher
multi_xml
You like to party!

Examples

# Use the class methods to get down to business quicklyresponse=HTTParty.get('http://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/questions?site=stackoverflow')putsresponse.body,response.code,response.message,response.headers.inspect# Or wrap things up in your own classclassStackExchangeincludeHTTPartybase_uri'api.stackexchange.com'definitialize(service,page)@options={query:{site:service,page:page}}enddefquestionsself.class.get("/2.2/questions",@options)enddefusersself.class.get("/2.2/users",@options)endendstack_exchange=StackExchange.new("stackoverflow",1)putsstack_exchange.questionsputsstack_exchange.

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I do think that enhances my enjoyment typing it compared to if it were "HTTPClient" or something generic or boring.

Jeff

I've been coding since my first ZX81 - so long, that I tend to look at things sideways. My stack is full.

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• Aug 3 '20

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I once had to support a small system written by the BA team...

They had discovered these cool things called VARIABLES... and decided to use them... their selected taxonomy was... first-names of all the people in the office.

Which made funny reading - it was amusing to see who was being multiplied by whom, who was fetched from the database, and who was destroyed by going out of scope!

Adam Crockett 🌀

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• Aug 2 '20

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It has to be this, it's a bit of an in-joke about recruitment.

RockstarLang / rockstar

The Rockstar programming language specification

Rockstar

Rockstar is a dynamically typed computer programming language, designed for creating programs that are also song lyrics. Rockstar is heavily influenced by the lyrical conventions of 1980s hard rock and power ballads.

But why?

Mainly because if we make Rockstar a real (and completely pointless) programming language, then recruiters and hiring managers won't be able to talk about 'rockstar developers' any more.

Also 'cos it's kinda fun and any language based on the idea of compiling Meatloaf lyrics has to be worth a look, right?

Plus we can make stickers. Who doesn't want a sticker on their laptop saying 'CERTIFIED ROCKSTAR DEVELOPER'?

What's here?

Implementations

The official reference implementation isSatriani - written in JavaScript, it runs in browsers and supports NodeJS for server-side and larger projects.

Rocky is a fully spec-compliant Rockstar implementation written…

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