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Thursday 21 August 2008, 11:04 PM
Software Scrabble: D.E.V.E.L.O.P.E.R.
Here’s a bit of software application development scrabble for you to serve as Friday down time. Hopefully this comes with enough of a thought-provoking nudge that you might even like to play.
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Here’s the genesis behind my thought process. I was listening to F.E.A.R. by Ian Brown (he of Stone Roses fame naturally) this afternoon and revelling in the fact that he sings the whole song with each line simply composed of four words each starting with the letters F.E.A.R.
Could I do that with D.E.V.E.L.O.P.E.R. I wondered? Here my best shot at it:
1. Does Every Vendor Exaggerate Lavishly Over Products’ Endless Rewards?
2. DOS Evolved Via Engineers’ Love Of Programming Excellence Realistically
3. Debian Evangelists Verify Existing Logic (in) Open-Source Programming Efficiency Repeatedly
4. Delivering Enterprise Value Envelops Large Organisations Promoting Early Retirement
5. Determined Engineers Virtually Everywhere Look Over Programmes Ever-so Relentlessly
6. Databases Evolve Validating Every Last Object Possible Encompassed (in) Releases
7. Did Everyone Violate Enterprise Linux Or Pathologically Embrace RedHat?
8. Devious Employees Voluntarily Entrap Losers Over Potential Eclipse Rollout
9. Designing (for) End-User Vulnerability Eventually Lowers Obvious Problems (for) Each Replication
… and finally,
10. Dose (of) Extra Viagra Extends Leading Operating-System Performance Exponentially (in) Real-time
I know, I know – I need to get out more. Enough already!
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Adrian,
You DEFINITELY need to get out more... and stop making me feel inadequate, because I can't come up with a single line to fit your criteria... hmmm. Can I write a program to do it, choosing random words from the dictionary? The resulting lines would probably make as much sense as a lot of the press releases we see...
jw
Hi Jamie,
Yikes! I missed an obvious one there - but can you program for sarcasm? I guess not huh?
Hmmm, computers and language...
:-) It's a great subject, I've studied language translation tools before as I was writing on the subject and there are just so many idioms and twists to accommodate for.
IBM has something called NLP Natural Language Processing - that I think works at this level...
http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/research.nsf/pages/r.nlp.about.html
I have just booked a two day camping trip leaving this afternoon (no, really, I have) to get out and see the trees and try and regain my grip on reality. Swallow Falls here I come!
http://www.dnr.state.md.us/publiclands/western/swallowfalls.html
AdrianB


