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If one spent enough time, they could even find "Ruby on Rails" offensive, in some misconstrued way as the word "rails" can be derived as conformist and against
by yareally 13y ago
If one spent enough time, they could even find "Ruby on Rails" offensive, in some misconstrued way as the word "rails" can be derived as conformist and against free thinking as one is confined to "rails." I don't think it's any of that, but just alluding that spend enough time dissecting anything and someone is bound to find issue with it.
I think the overall gist is that we developers are not always marketing people, so we spend more time on making whatever it is and less on the name. Naming things is a hassle, especially when you have no intention on making it a marketable product.
- billsix 13y agoI thought on rails was referring to a category of first a person shooters http://www.giantbomb.com/on-rails/3015-169/ http://www.giantbomb.com/on-rails/3015-169/
- anonyfox 13y agoI recently wrote about a way for developers to find "good enough" names in a short period of time. http://blog.plague-dev.de/an-algorithmic-name-finding-process/ http://blog.plague-dev.de/an-algorithmic-name-finding-proces... It works for me and my colleagues pretty well. You could give it a try if you want.
- yareally 13y agoThanks for the tip. I'll check it out.