Developers really do have a language of their own, one which can be hard for non-developers to decipher. A terse sentence fired over IM can communicate reams of information.
"It's a kludge, but put the tuple from the database in the cache."
The problem is — as this video shows — even developers themselves can have a hard time understanding each other.
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Adaptavist have similar geek talk that I ended up creating a glossary for recently: https://www.adaptavist.com/display/~gfraser/Adaptavist+Glossary
What surprised me is that most of our documented terminology revolves around our "determination to make things work, no matter what". A fairly large percentage of the terms are for "blowing off steam" to enable us to quickly get back to the task at hand.
By Guy Fraser at November 13, 2007 5:26 AM
Add the works 'Linux' and ... urrrm ... 'Jira' in here and you've got a winner!
By Mike Roberts at November 13, 2007 1:04 PM
JIRA is pronounced consistently throughout Atlassian.
Confluence, on the other hand...
By Charles Miller at November 13, 2007 4:27 PM
Is that the "ji-ra" or "jhi-ra" or "ghira" pronunciation of JIRA?
By Guy Fraser at November 13, 2007 5:32 PM
http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/3230/manualjiraac4.jpg
By Luke at November 13, 2007 6:20 PM
Just seriously discovered atlassian - what a great company you guys seem to have! I am so getting JIRA Studio as our issue tracker.
By Mattias Johansson at November 19, 2007 2:03 PM