[AlexC04]

I was a 'corporate giant' a number of years ago and developing internal applications, and I always made a point of naming my applications with absolutely ridiculous names.

A script for calculating the rate of employee attrition (voluntary departure) in Human Resources was named the "Quantitative Attrition Calculator" or "QuAC" for short. The icon was a duck.

I always had a laugh when they said the name - some got the joke and loved it, which was great... but, even better was the one who "refused to be made a fool of" and would always make a point of saying the letters. (Bless her :) )

Just last year, I had to write some Customer Relationship Management Software - which brought back memories of Quac and I went with the name "Customer Relationship Management Interface" or "CRMI" the logo was a frog and the interface was green. It's not easy being green.

:)

My suggestion: make it as fun as you can.

[robgough]

I once named a deployment system "Parachute".

Because, as with a parachute... we were f*cked if it didn't deploy properly.

A tenuous link, but we still laugh about it now. And because of that, you would never forget what it actually does.

I can't believe no body has made this quote yet either...

"There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things" - Phil Karlton

[wccrawford]

I agree with the ridiculous names, especially if they fit will.

I managed to name a 'reminder system' the 'CRS'. Supposedly that stands for 'company reminder system', but we all know what it really means. ;) (Wow, a Google search doesn't turn that up as an acronym... It starts with 'Can't remember', for those that don't know. ;) )

[alanl]

Ha, I like that, I'm not the funniest, guy in the world but some of the guys I work with are pretty funny. I suspect my biggest problem with this is that a ridiculous name won’t get past some of the more serious old school members of upper mgmt.

[groaner]

Anyone pronounce CRMI as "crummy"?