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Posted by xconspirisist on Sat Jan 1st at 7:21pm 2005

I'm editing a few projects at the moment including a php-admin thinger, a general purpose unix server, and the like. At the moment none of my project's have decent memorable names - I've named a sql database admin thinger - ' Iridium ' after a cool sounding element. But that's just essentially pretty poor. I named another project after some greek god, but then again that's still pretty poor.

What I'm asking is if anyone has a good idea for naming things, like a using a list of something, or whatever. Any thought's or suggestions would be appreciated, I've got about 8 projects without decent names. [addsig]



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Posted by Gwil on Sat Jan 1st at 7:29pm 2005

Surely having EIGHT projects means they not only have no decent name, but more like "no decent input" ?

I'd scale down your interests massively if you want to seriously progress anywhere with your projects.

As for names, I just go with themes - eg, some IRC bots I established were named gnome, Nautilus, XFree, Fjear, Blackbox all related to open source/linux in some way..

The others I called Tossbot, Boozer, Whore Bot, On-Dope etc...

Just be imaginative, or dont name them at all and be worried about the actual content
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Posted by Leperous on Sat Jan 1st at 10:07pm 2005

Don't forget recursive acronyms! e.g. PHP, GNU, LAME

Ancient greek/roman Titans also have some cool names. Try Typhon or Hyperion (which is also the name of an excellent series of books...)





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Posted by xconspirisist on Sat Jan 1st at 10:52pm 2005

They're all very active, and very full projects gwil .

Will check that out lep, thanks. [addsig]




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