Thursday 18 December 2008

Parallizing

Meaning: Working in parallel with ones peers.
Author: FH

Bad Ganymede

Meaning: Bad Karma
Author: NT

Thursday 11 December 2008

N.U.T.S

Meaning: Nebulous Units of Time (plural)
Author: NT

Susfisticated

Meaning: A very sophisticated fellow indeed
Author: GD

Sexual Preferation

Meaning: Sexual preference for penetration
Author: GD

Tuesday 9 December 2008

Gift Vulture

Meaning.1: A Gift Voucher probably involving alcoholic beverages.
Meaning.alt: ebay - Picking over the carcasses of unwanted presents post Christmas.
Author: PK

iPull-fEmail

Meaning: Male orientated Singles email client akin to iPull-Male.

Author: FH

iPull-eMale

Meaning: Female orientated Singles email client with built in RSS feeds for all the popular dating sites, including: match.com, enterlove.com, datetheuk.com, etc.

Author: FH

iPull

Meaning: New iPhone application suite designed for the Singles market.
Author: FH

Wednesday 26 November 2008

Technical Tipple

Meaning: A snippet of technical information provided over an alcoholic beverage.

Author: FH

Friday 7 November 2008

Manwell recordings

Meaning: Recordings of a non-automatic nature.
Author: PK

Thursday 23 October 2008

Sex Pixels

Meaning: I'll give you a hint, we were talking about graphics rendering and not 1970's music.
Author: GC

A Singular Plural

Meaning: Anyone's guess!
Author: PK (who else?!)

Wednesday 15 October 2008

NAF

Meaning: Not A Feature
Author: FH

Thursday 2 October 2008

Riddleware

Meaning: The middleware is riddled with the callback requirements.
Author: NT, LM

Wednesday 24 September 2008

Implification

Meaning: No one's quite sure, even the author!
Author: CD

Tuesday 23 September 2008

I'm On Fire Of Line

Meaning: One is a bit worried about the possibility of being intercepted at high velocity by a pink ball due to one's height and proximity to an existing war-zone.
Author: PK

Inaminute

Meaning: Inanimate (as in inanimate object)
Author: PK

Thursday 31 July 2008

Rehacktering

Meaning: (A close cousin of) Refu*ktering a piece of code in a non-optimal way.
Author: JB2

Thursday 24 July 2008

I am attacked by a nap

Meaning: (One from the archive this) I came over all tired.
Author: PK

Wednesday 23 July 2008

public abstract class CelebrationManager implements IGoodTime, INightOut, ITeamBonding, IEmbarrassingPhotos

Meaning.javadoc: The base class for all PartyManagers.
Known.Subclasses: DrinkingManager, ClubbingManager, BowlingManager, PaintballManager, BeerFestManager
Methods.inherited.from.Interface IGoodTime: isHappy, isPissed,
Methods.inherited.from.Interface INightOut: gotSome, hasLostWallet, hasMissedLastBusHome, hadKebab
Methods.inherited.from.Interface ITeamBonding: hadFreeCurry, skimmedBossesCreditCard, isCompanyPaidTaxiUtilised
Methods.inherited.from.Interface IEmbarrassingPhotos: uploadedPhotosToFacgebookOnSameNight, hasDodgyStainOnApparel, hasPhotocopiedOwnArseFiftyTimes
Author: PK, RD, NT, JC, FH

Reverse Polish Engineering

Meaning.recipe:  Take your typical TVGM, decompile it, analyse it in vain, swear profusely at it, curse the level of comments/documentation/logic/synchronising/frequency of InvalidStateExceptions and finally refactor it by means of either: a) Machete, b) Firing squad, c) Whip (well why not?!), d) Gatling gun (this being my personal favourite - ed) e)  M.O.A.B, f) Thermonuclear ordinance (of at least 10 Mega-tonnes) and stand well back (we recommend a minimum distance of 20 nautical miles and a large bottle of sun cream) or g) Throw it away and completely rewrite it.
Author.chef: RD, NT, PK.

U.I. Dominatrix

Meaning: Whips, Lots of Whipping, Muchos-Whipos
Author: NT

Tuesday 1 July 2008

As Clear as Clarity

Quote: "At least we''ll all have a consistent level of ignorance."
Author: RD

I Leeked Out

Meaning: "A Bin. My Kingdom for a Bin!" - The "Green Revolution" continues... the contents of my Tea Bag leaked onto the floor in transit to the Oasis Point.
Author: PJ

De ja Vee

Meaning: A De Ja Vu moment.
Author: PK

Thursday 26 June 2008

Do as I say not as I do

Quote: "Although we're not building for demonstration, I need everything working for tomorrow's demo!"
Author: PK

Wednesday 25 June 2008

Joining a Jumper

Quote.dizzy.blonde: "I feel like an outsider as the group you're in is already tight knit…….It’s like joining a jumper that’s already been knitted"
Author: via LM

Tuesday 24 June 2008

Regretion Bugs

Meaning: Some blugs have been found using Regression testing.
Author: PK - who else ?!

Wednesday 11 June 2008

Exploding Compliments

Meaning: Components are exploding all over the place.
Author: PK - "Heeeeee's back !"

Thursday 29 May 2008

Stop The Press

Our most valued contributors are currently offline - unlearning English we hope.
Normal service will be reinstated as soon as they open their mouths again.

- Ed.

Wednesday 21 May 2008

Taking the Duracell

Quote"These batteries are made of Urine."
Meaning: "Golly gosh, these batteries are as heavy as Uranium old boy!"
Author: U235PK

Urine

Meaning: An isotope of Uranium: U235PK - native to Central Eastern Poland, occasionally turning up in annoyingly small quantities in West London.
Author: PK

Thursday 15 May 2008

New Polish sport revealed

Quote: "Now Nicola has joined the team she is revealing a second bottom."
Meaning: Nicola is finding new problems. (Personally I think the author's Paraphilia is now exposed for all to see! - ed)
Hystonikal: "We've found the bottom" - ie: "The worst it can get", however someone discovered something even worse - a second bottom!
Author: PK

Doc. Brown

Quote: "Ian saw it tomorrow - if you can find what's that?"
Meaning: No f'ing idea, but the author is obviously trying to Collunicate something! (mind you, Ian has been out of the office all day - isn't the Delorean ment to take you back to the exact moment you left ? Any excuse eh?! - ed)
Author: PK via YV

Tuesday 13 May 2008

Vag*na On Demand

Meaning: The act of squeezing as much p*rn as possible (which, let's face it, is what most people will be doing) from VOD servers, through as small a Hole - sorry Crack, no - Orifice, no Bandwidth-limited Socket as possible.
See: Blow-VOD for what's on offer.
Author: GC

Blow-VOD

Meaning: Push-VOD.
Author: CG

Suck-VOD

Meaning: Pull-VOD.
Author: CG

Disconbobulation

Word.of.the.day: Disconbobulation
Meaning: I've no idea but doesn't it sound great! (GC has just pointed out that it is indeed a "real" word, probably a close relation to Disconfabulate - ed)
Author: CG

Thursday 8 May 2008

A Sam Murray

Meaning: Presenting the substance in a condensed form.
Author: PK

Wednesday 7 May 2008

Signalising

Quote.code: "Responsibile for signalising the controller that it's time to hide the banner"
Meaning: To make remarkable or conspicuous.
Author: PK

Tuesday 29 April 2008

Niagarra Falls

Meaning: Non-Agile method of software development.
Prefix: F**king
Author: PK

Tuesday 22 April 2008

Leefactoring

Meaning: See DeLEEte.
Author: FH

deLEEte

Meaning: The immortalising act of unrecoverably removing ones non backed-up source tree over nfs
Pronunciation: rm -rf *
Author: PK

Sprintophrenia

Meaning: Multiple Sprint Personality Disorder.
Pronunciation: sprint-o-fri-nia
Author: PK

Friday 18 April 2008

Enrage

Meaning: A secure repository for customers to view and report boogs. Creates an anti-feeling of peace and tranquility amongst developers and a gives customers that warm and cosy feeling.
Author: FH

Thursday 17 April 2008

The Never Ending Story

Meaning: TVVM
Author: PK
Author.portrait:

Blugged-out

Meaning: The overwhelming despair experienced by a Development Team Leader upon realizing that there are excessive Blugs during a project's final push. Symptoms include excessive pink ball throwing, shouting and having that knowing smile during team meetings stand-ups before breaking the bad news to the blissfully unaware (or was that ignorant - ed) developers. Also involves excess use of BlameZilla for whipping purposes.
Author: FH

BlameZilla

Meaning: The use of Bugzilla to punish the guilty.
Author: GC

CrippleBlocke

Meaning: See CrippleBug.
Author: GC

CrippleBug

Meaning: See Blug.
Author: JP

Blug

Meaning: A Blocking Boog.
Note: It has nothing whatsoever to do with this although $65 for 2" sounds reasonable!
Author: JP/GC/FH.

Bugzollerance

Meaning: A well known medical affliction of the te-chi class.
Detail: An intolerance to fixing Boogs, specifically the ability to remember to look in Bugzilla for yours. Some developers appear to suffer from this condition more than others, mentioning no names...
Author: FH

Wednesday 9 April 2008

A Croydon Special

Meaning: A bit of Charlie (no not this type).
Author: NT

Magic Law#1: Conservation Of Magic

Quote.law: "Magic cannot be created or destroyed, only transferred from one viewing card to another."
Meaning: Viewing card cloning woes.
Author: IF/FH

Tuesday 8 April 2008

Droaning

Meaning: Suffocation due to submersion in multiple copies of ones self resulting in asphyxia.
Author: PK

Magic Green Finger

Meaning: The Golden Sample dev. "Magic Box".
Author: AA

Mefology

Meaning: Methodology.
Author: FH

Friday 4 April 2008

Yogorian Time

Meaning: See Yogorian Calendar.
Author: PK/TF.

Yogorian Calendar

Meaning: A Calendar system based on the Absolute and Immutable value: 1st Jan. 2001.
Author: TF

Thursday 3 April 2008

Enter the Dragon

Quote: "Here be Big Fish!" (and no, the author wasn't point at an ancient map)
Meaning: A Dragons Den Demonstration at the end of the Sprint might contain some reasonably important people.
Author: PK




Fu*ktards

Meaning: F***ing Retards (better not mention who the author is talking about - ed)
Author: GC

Trash the Cache

Quote: "Caching is for losers!"
Meaning: To optimise or not, that is the question...
Author: MA

Wednesday 2 April 2008

Flash the bitch

Meaning: "I can't flash the bitch." (as in STB - ed)
Author: FH / TF

Collerate

Meaning: A number of items are correlated.
Author: GC

Oppulous

Meaning: See Lectury.
Author: PK

Marketecture

Meaning: An Architectural presentation for the Marketing dept.
Author: JB/GC

Friday 28 March 2008

Slipperage

Meaning: To experience increased project timescales.
Author: PK (thanks to SM for that one)

Friday 21 March 2008

Collunicate

Meaning: The ability to correspond with ones peers.
Author: FH

Thursday 20 March 2008

Gaping Jam Hole

Meaning: MMMMMMMM forbidden doughnut
Author: TF

Deliverables, Shmiverbles

Quote: "'suppliers name withheld' don't seem to know what the f**k they're doing!"
Meaning: To be sure, I'd say that the author is particularly unimpressed with the quality of delivered code from a particular supplier.
Author: IF

Tolleritting

Meaning: To put up with something annoying.
Author: CO

Wednesday 19 March 2008

My juicy fruit

Quote: "I need some nuts to go with your juicy fruit."
Meaning: Well you've got to get it 5 times a day haven't you?
Author: TF/FH

Tuesday 18 March 2008

Endolphins

Quote.after.beer: "The active ingredient in chilli's causes brain damage by overloading it with endolphins."
Meaning: Intelligent endogenous opioid polypeptides
Author: JB

Deconcentrating

Quote: "Stop deconcentrating me!"
Meaning: The art of distraction.
Author: PK

JB's 'Quality Bar'

Quote: "My 'quality bar' hangs as low as the gutter."
Meaning: Possibly has something to do with his 'Little Slot' (but we fail to see how - ed), although he refused to be drawn on which way it hangs.
Author: JB

JB's 'Little Slot'

Quote: "I have a little slot."
Meaning: Apparently, JB has some free time ... well on Monday at any rate.
Author: JB

Dirty Sexy Dongle - A nice pair of Double-D's

Quote: "I need a dongle (for something) but unfortunately my Dirty Dongle is broken" (is it just me, or whenever a women says the word dongle, it sounds really dirty ? - ed).
Meaning: How not to look embarrassed in front of a room full of blokes!
Author: TE/GC

FEPP

Acronym: Feel our way through Elektronical (2) Pack Programming.
Meaning: The process through which scum cards are injested into ScumWorks.
Author: PK

Elektronical (2)

Meaning: An electronic instrument.
Author: PK

Elektronical

Meaning: Danger! High power electronics.
Author: PK

Extentionism is the new Functionalism

Quote: "Working, to what extent?!"
Meaning: Great it works! Hold on, PK might have written it - so how much of it works then?
Author: IF

Skeletons

Quote: "I like filling my Skeletons with Meat."
Meaning: To flesh out a code block.
Author: PK

Arrarabian

Meaning: A person, group from the Middle-East.
Author: PK

Arrabiac

Meaning: An item originating in the Middle-East.
Author: PK

Prayor Romanee

Meaning: Unknown - probably something to do with Player/Planner interaction/love.
Author: PK

Valoo

Meaning: A value
Author: PK

Hystonikal

Meaning: Of the old world.
Author: PK

Idlefy

Meaning: To make idle (inert, stopped etc).
Author: PK

Lectury

Meaning: Luxury, Oppulous (not really a word but sounds good! - ed)
Author: PK

Carry

Meaning: Curry (the hot stuff in case there is any doubt - ed)
Author: PK

ShagOff

Meaning: As "Shag is to Fuck" and "Off is t.#!$" Arh, fuck it: "To Fuck Off!"
Author: PK

BatchOfPack

Meaning: BunchOfPack
Author: PK

Inoccurate

Meaning: Not very Occurate
Pronunciation: in-ok-ur-at
Author: TF

Occurate

Meaning: Accurate
Pronunciation: ok-ur-at
Author: PK

Ordinjelly

Meaning: To be normal (not the hair-care product, tenuous - ed).
Author: PK

Particle of Functionality

Meaning: An individual item of specific purpose in a sea of ‘others’
Author: PK

BunchOfPack

Meaning: A deck of cards – ‘white’ presumably.
Author: PK

Fiking

Meaning: To fake something.
Pronunciation: fik-ing
Author: GC / PK

Assillium

Meaning: (No not a Roman city name) The act of asking for Asylum.
Pronunciation: ass-i-lee-uhm
Author: PK
Notes: One ‘l’ or two - ed?

Chavling

Meaning: Chav spawn, Child of a Chav, The offspring of a chav, you get the idea!
Pronunciation: chav-ling
Author: TF

Chavalling

Meaning: To travel 'midst chavs.
Pronunciation: chav-a-ling
Author: FH (nice to have a new contributor on board - ed)

Ecually

Meaning: Of equal measure .
Pronunciation: ey-kyoo-al-ee
Author: PK

Blue's brudders

Meaning: Possessive, Blue cards relating to ‘this’ card.
Author: PK

White brudders

Meaning: Non-rasist, White cards of equal relation.
Author: PK

Frozing

Meaning: To deep freeze something.
Pronunciation: froh-zin g
Author: PK

MocksOnTheBox


Meaning: As reliable as the Mocks (not that we have Mocks on-the-box mind you).
Meaning.alt: The cat in the Hat.
Author: PK (you seem to be generating a lot of content- ed)

UnBlue

Meaning: The opposite of blue (In an EPG context).
Author: PK

Constant Variable

Meaning: A Java variable permanently taking a constant value (sounds like a hack to me - ed)
Meaning.alt: A Java Constant parameter assuming a variable value.
Author: PK

Solitairiate

Meaning: A person who enjoys their own company.
Author: PK

Temporary Reengineering

Meaning: To 'refactor the fuck' out of something.
Author: PK

Optivated

Meaning: To hold a high opinion of one's self.
Author: PK

MissMash

Meaning: To MishMash
Author: PK

FuckTory

Meaning: A Fucking Factory! (Java factory class that is).
Author: PK

TrackDump

Meaning: The art of extracting a Java stack trace to stdout by whatever means necessary.
Author: PK

FuckNuckle

Meaning: A hacker who messes with the code.
Author: GC