Last night (Jan. 11, 2006) was the monthly Northern NJ .Net User Group (N3UG.org) meeting, and Stephen Forte was the speaker (sponsored by Ineta). Stephen’s discussion was on Design Patterns in ASP.Net 2.0 (if you are a member of Ineta, I highly recommend that you request them to send Stephen to speak at your group!) and during the talk he accidentally stumbled onto a new geek speak term. He was doing the usual Microsoft-like ASP.Net presentation and dropping a SqlDataSource onto a page and using the wizard to generate the code. He was trying to show that this isn’t really the “right” way to write code, since it wasn’t easy to copy the resulting code and paste in into another form (which he was also explaining is not the way to reuse code), and instead you should be learn when to use the Model-View-Controller design pattern. In Stephen’s usual comedic style, he was trying to come up with a term for the code that was generated by the wizard, and Wizard Droppings just happen to come fall out of his mouth. It immediately struck me as a definitive description of this coding style, and I let Stephen know about it. While sitting in the back of the room laughing with the others at this new found term, I also realized that one could also use a variant to describe a person that utilizes this coding style, a Wizard Dropper.
Wizard Droppings
Noun
The programming code generated thru the use of Wizard Dialogs.
Wizard Dropper
Noun
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A programmer that can only develop programs by way of Wizard Dialogs. See
Mort.
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A technical speaker that uses Wizard Dialogs in their demos.
Oh, don’t bother to try to register the urls www.wizarddroppers.com and www.wizarddroppings.com they are already taken by yours truly. I’m just not entirely sure what I want to do with them. If Stephen wants one of them, I’ll give it to him, but otherwise they both sound like nice blogging urls ( a la www.dailywtf.com).
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