Comments on: 30 overused software naming techniques

By: Rarst

Rarst — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 16:28:19 +0000

@Panos OpenOffice seems to be in tough spot at moment with LibreOffice appealing against "big evil Oracle". I wonder how will it play out over next couple of years.

By: Panos

Panos — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 15:56:39 +0000

I believe you should reconsider your RC definition as OpenOffice set a new record here — RC10 and going. I wonder if they’ll go for a Guinness.

By: Rarst

Rarst — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:53:02 +0000

@Rick

Thanks. :) Actually I intended to do short one like ~10 but once I started typing them out it escalated.

I do not do humor posts often so they are nice change of pace, heh.

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:48:06 +0000

Rarst,

Very nice article… Took some time to put that list together and “how true this is”… Great Post!

Rick

By: Rarst

Rarst — Tue, 19 May 2009 11:57:55 +0000

@szekelya

I have noticed that if official name has spaces but official download doesn’t – it confuses people all the time. Instead of single consistent naming there is suddenly
- with-spaces
- without-spaces
- based-on-without-spaces-with-creatively-added-spaces

I guess it’s more about sticking with single variant than about spaces.

And again – I don’t use shortcuts or start menu, more of executables person. :)

By: szekelya

szekelya — Tue, 19 May 2009 11:53:42 +0000

I mean if the binary is called MyApplicationSolvingAllYourComputingNeeds.exe without spaces, that’s fine. Could be even better with lowercase characters. But I’m not sure I’m happy with “MyPhoneExplorer” or “InfraRecorder” in my startmenu without the spaces. (The applications themselves are terrific.) Either without capitalization or with spaces between the words, while their exe can be without spaces.

By: Rarst

Rarst — Tue, 19 May 2009 10:39:18 +0000

@szekelya

I think no spaces is more practical than trendy. Maybe I just have more trust in filenames without spaces, looks better in download links as well.

Randomname2 – you mean some that start from versioninng from two? :) Yeah, that is so weird.

I considered exclamation mark but luckily it is quite rare. On other hand also quite lame.

Thanks for your input and glad to see you commenting again. :)

By: szekelya

szekelya — Tue, 19 May 2009 07:27:33 +0000

NoSpacesButAllWordsCapitalized – looks trendy
Randomname2 – pity you missed the first one, but this is tad better
Whatever! – if yahoo got away with the exclamation mark…

By: Alek Davis

Alek Davis — Mon, 18 May 2009 21:54:41 +0000

Agree.

By: Rarst

Rarst — Mon, 18 May 2009 21:43:15 +0000

@Alek Davis

As for me killing folder with portable executable and configuration files is simpler than uninstall (I do not use shortcuts).

It too true about configuration files all over drive after install (and who said unsinstall would bother with them at all) that’s exactly why portable rocks – it is contained.

By the way portable executable with install routine I described above could easily contain uninstall routine as well.

Overall I am trying to say that it is possible to make portable act as installable but impossible to make installable act as portable.