Tuesday, 24 November 2009

Dynamitus

Meaning: The Roman God of Metrics or Explosives (depends if the emphasis is on the a or the i  - ed)

Author: CG

Friday, 20 November 2009

embedded.c.firmware.joke.groaner (you have been warned)

Joke: Why do embedded software engineers find it difficult to write good firmware?
Answer.groaner: Because it's written for hard-ware!
Author: FH

Tuesday, 6 October 2009

2 Longs do not make a right

Meaning: (java.lang.Long.constructor != 64bits) - arhhh!
Author: FH / CG

Thursday, 30 July 2009

"Coding is the smallest part of what we do"

Meaning: QuoteInterpretationFactory.getInterpreter(name, mood, expectedResult).getMeaning(Title);
Author: AB

Thursday, 18 June 2009

Rebel without a flag

Meaning: Commit and Runnnnnnnnnn.
Author: FH, NT

Wednesday, 17 June 2009

Tyreany

Meaning: Arbitrary or unrestrained exercise of power; despotic abuse of authority when describing 4-wheel drive delivery mechanism.
Author: PK (1st entry in eons! Damn - his English is soo much better - ed).

Caveet


Meaning: Caution, Warning, Alarm formal admonition. A caveat to you or I.
Author: MB

Wednesday, 20 May 2009

"I couldn't see behind my crack"

Meaning: My wing mirror that is, not my arse!
Author: YP

"Your purple penis - It's got a ring to it!"

Meaning: Silly Putty indeed!
Author: RD

Tuesday, 28 April 2009

Gullablised

Meaning: To believe multiple comments of a gullible nature.

Author: MB

Shitter

Meaning: Twitter for the toilet
Author: GD

Twatter

Meaning: Team Twitter for issues
Author: Team P under GC

Bivi-wacking

Meaning: T.B.D but sounded good at the time!
Author: GC

Thursday, 16 April 2009

"Those who can; Code and those who can't; Manage"

Meaning: PMs (no offence RD !).
Author: FH

Beer Storming

Meaning: Generating genuinely useful ideas the old fashioned way.
Author: GC

Blitter Hokey Cokey

Meaning: What a blitter does best!
Author: GC

Thursday, 9 April 2009

Abdul Reference Platform

Meaning: A STB hardware reference platform based on the Abdul chipset (still in Beta)

Featured highlights:
  • Class-leading Alcohol processing capabilities.
  • Ultra smooth operation under heavy (female) load.
  • SIMD extensions (Streaming Independent Multiple Dates) for improved pulling performance.
  • Extra large volatile memory capacity (see ADUL1 below).
  • Integrated LNTN-MMU (Late Night Telephone Number Memory Management Unit).
  • Fabbed using the latest 20:20 CMOS (Cricket MemOry Stats) process lithography.
Known bugs:
  1. Ref# ADUL1
  • Description: Car key lookup table infinit-loop.
  • Status:       Unable to reproduce but known blocker.
  • Fix:            Move to non-volatile memory.
Author: GC, Abdul


"But I don't have a putting green in my living room...any more"

Meaning: My wife doesn't get the whole Golf 'thing'.
Author: IB


Wednesday, 8 April 2009

Paralysing Unit Tests

Meaning: To make unit tests lock up on multiple machines at once.
Author: KC

Wednesday, 11 March 2009

Multi Womb

Meaning: A Club, Venue or TV Music Show with a gracious over supply of fit Totty, and definitely not a UK Satellite TV product touted by an Oriental with a lisp.
Author: GC

Tuesday, 17 February 2009

Oxymoron of the Day: "Quality Center"

Yes, even better than Military Intelligence.
Author: NT

Tuesday, 10 February 2009

Mr. Chris "Huston, we have a problem" D.

Meaning: "Huston, we have a problem with TVVM again!"

Author: PK, NT

Wednesday, 4 February 2009

Glaswegian Diet

Meaning: Shallow-fried Mars bar.
Author: CD

It's Scrum Jim, but not as we know it!

Team.moto: It's Scrum Jim, but not as we know it!
Meaning: "I know scrum, me!" "Anyway, this is what we have to do... - in the little time available to us, so update your estimates on what you can achieve in this time, I'll ignore them, you do all the work anyway and I'll bitch when the work you didn't commit to isn't done - PS: Unit tests included 8-)"

Author: NT

Wednesday, 21 January 2009

Tuna Clashes

Meaning: To over-utilise certain hardware resources
Author: NT

I.P.S

Meaning: Irritable Personality Syndrome - some more than others!
Author: GD

Curryfuckyou

Quote.perseeved: "Here's your curry, now Fuck You!"
Meaning: "Hi. I'm your favourite clueless curry waiter. Here's your 5 currys but I'm not going to tell you which curry is which because you ordered 10 poppadoms and I delivered 10 poppadoms each (which, surprisingly, you didn't want at 85p per-pop and are coming out of my wages), so here's a plate of moldy chips and burnt curry to mask the smell of raw sewage wafting around this pub (with only one Ale on tap because it's not that type of area)."
PS: "Why you wan see bill before pay?" (seemed to have slipped into a Chinese one there - ed)
PPS: Service definately not included! - FH
PPPS: "Authentic!" - GD
Author: GC
Poppadoms:

Hacking cough

Meaning: Every software Engineer's nightmare - worse than the Flu!

Author: FH, GC.

Bush Oil

Meaning: Lubrication to prevent female smoking [Vag-lube to you and me - ed] and nothing to do with the invasion of Iraq.

Author: GD, GC

Tuesday, 20 January 2009

Bollotics

Meaning: Politics which means complete bollocks or makes no sense at all.
Pronunciation: Bol-lou-tycs 
 Slang: Bolloctics [Bol-loc-tics]
Author: GD

Thursday, 8 January 2009

Fagile

Meaning: Like Agile only involving a large amount of swearing and absolutely nothing to do with the state of female anatomy...
Author: NT

Wednesday, 7 January 2009

Fuckbended

Meaning.technically: The opposite of Fuckstrated
Meaning.abstract: Good question!

Meaning: Let your mind do the thinking for a change.

Author: NT

Fuckstrated

Meaning: Fucking frustrated ! [Surely word of the year - ed]
Author: PK

Proxymoron

Meaning: Oxymoron.
Meaning.funny: To act a fool/idiot on someone’s behalf.
AuthorDG