Here's one for the Prog fans!
As a developer, you sometimes get to have fun during the long hours coding by using silly words as variable names or adding funny comments that the end users never see, but yesterday I surpassed myself!
I was helping a fellow developer complete a system which automatically built a form from entries in a database – something I've done before and am about to start working on for my current client.
We needed a name for the main control component, which called several 'Builder' components (one to build a select field, another for radio buttons etc.), so I suggested we call it 'MasterBuilder'
(Note for the techies in the audience: Right about now, most of the Prog fans are laughing or going 'Yeah!', but you have no idea why that's funny! B->)
Basically, for the uninitiated, the stand out track on the 1974 album 'You' by Gong is called MasterBuilder.
More information about this stunningly good album can be found in this review.
It's just a pity I couldn't get a comment into his code about 'Pot Head Pixies'! B->
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