Ramble On

Because I spend too much time worrying about stuff like this (my side of the IM conversation with my wife):


1:47:51 PM jason: so
1:48:21 PM jason: this programming language I use will automatically pluralize things
1:48:41 PM jason: like "tag" will become "tags" when you need it to
1:48:44 PM jason: too
1:48:56 PM jason: I'd like to use the attribute "expertise"
1:49:05 PM jason: but "expertises" sounds funny
1:49:20 PM jason: so what's a good synonym for expertise?
1:49:41 PM jason: skill I guess
1:49:46 PM jason: but that is stupid
1:50:25 PM jason: I think I'll just leave as expertise/expertises
1:50:49 PM the wife: why is skill stupid?
1:50:53 PM the wife: expertises sounds more stupid
1:51:02 PM jason: (and no, areas of expertise won't work in the code - it'll be labeled that way for the user though)
1:51:41 PM jason: because if you are listing something for the user - telling a bunch of extension staff to list their "Areas of expertise" is more relevant than listing their "Skills"
1:51:48 PM jason: the users will never see "expertises"
1:51:52 PM the wife: oh
1:51:54 PM the wife: ok
1:51:59 PM jason: it will always be in the program
1:52:26 PM jason: maybe I'll call it "expertag" and "expertags"
1:52:40 PM jason: the programming construct is a "tag"
1:52:59 PM jason: this is why I'm not a professional programmer


This isn’t quite on the scale of Linden Labs opening the sim code (actually, I’d be far more in favor of them packaging it up so that you could run your own sim) - but I’ll be damned - they open-sourced the client

That will certainly reverberate across the 2nd life and other 3D virtual world blogs today.