My credits by name in (released) software:
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Does this count... (Score:5, Funny)
Does this count the batch file I just wrote that repeats my name over and over just so I'd qualify myself for this poll?
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I don't see your name anywhere. Were you even hired for this gig?
<script>Alphatel</script>
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More than 20, but I don't code. (Score:2)
Employees don't need their names put up in lights for doing their job. Consultants get paid enough not to care who's name is on the product.
If anybody's name is going to go onto the software, it's mine, the PHB.
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<shameless plug>
It's a simple, clean weather app. (US only). Has NOAA feed for week's forecast + wind speed and direction
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10 PRINT "telchine woz ere!"
20 GOTO 10
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Linus? ;)
No, Copyright.
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Yeah, McAfee's fingerprints are all over the place...
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Quiz time!
Mike Rowe?
Iris Bending Margharetha?
are you the Oracle?
Released where? And what is Code? (Score:3)
Done bunch of stuff that's mostly used internally and our customers and now maintained by someone else. Some of this stuff includes things like stored procedures in databases. Are such things "code"? Are they "released" when they are only released internally or directly to customers?
I also have some stuff from the 80's written in Basic for an 8-bit computer. Some of these were published in magazines, as program listings. Were they "released" software?
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Quite. I've 'released' stuff on my website. A few things actually. It all has my name on it. In fact, my website has code that has my name on it, in use (e.g. the JavaScript email showing script).
I've also written stuff that has been used by others, sometimes with, and sometimes without, being paid. That stuff may then have gone onto more wider distribution.
However, I've never sold software, or (to my knowledge) had code I've written been sold as part of software. I sell a service, I sell solutions, and som
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We don't have a habit of ego whoring in the source we create either. Someone a few years back was very fond of his own initials for variable names, but other than that the software we release has contact info for our department, not any individuals in it. (we're not a dev shop, so we don't "release" stuff into the wild).
Do commit messages to internal source control count?
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I had to put my name in contacts splash because it was REQUIRED.
People needed to know who to bug to no avail asking for a "more colorful" GUI and such.
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Just throw in a fake name now and then. Wait for the phone call for someone wanting to talk to Mike Hunt.
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or Mike Hawk.
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I can't. The apps are distributed internally, and rules say my name has to be in there. Putting a fake name in would likely get me fired.
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I can't. The apps are distributed internally, and rules say my name has to be in there. Putting a fake name in would likely get me fired.
You need to invent a whole fake employee then. I'd like to hear a HR manager announce that they'd just fired "Mike Hunt" or "Mike Litoris".
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I'm Romanian, so a better name would be "Mihail Abagiu" which means "Michael Jer Kopf".
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I say yes. Therefore I can say I am credited in 1 or 2 pieces of software.
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When i used to write games (30 years ago) there were no credits at all - apart from the company name. I got a credit in the instructions booklet though!
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Done bunch of stuff that's mostly used internally and our customers and now maintained by someone else. Some of this stuff includes things like stored procedures in databases. Are such things "code"? Are they "released" when they are only released internally or directly to customers?
Code: I'd say so. It makes a computer behave in a certain way, so I'd say it's code. Released: can easily be argued either way. For me, I consider released as "available to the public", and the latter regardless on whether it's for pay or for free.
I also have some stuff from the 80's written in Basic for an 8-bit computer. Some of these were published in magazines, as program listings. Were they "released" software?
That I'd definitely call released, as you made it available to the public. Everyone who wanted could buy a copy of the magazine and with that a copy of your code.
I changed my name... (Score:4, Funny)
My name is now "IF" just so I can win this poll. And only because I can't really change my name to the space character.
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My name is now "IF" just so I can win this poll. And only because I can't really change my name to the space character.
If you want to be known as the programmer of the best software in the land, you should have changed it to "GOTO".
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I changed my name to "GOTO" so I could be vilified.
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You bastard!
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"I changed my name to "GOTO" so I could be vilified."
You are now considered harmful. Please leave.
goto rocks (Score:2)
and you all know it.
(For well controlled specific circumstances of course.)
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Why not space? Then program in Whitespace language.
TAB
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My name is Case, so I've got you beat.
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My new name is +
Pronounced as the programmer formally known as alta.
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My new name is +
Pronounced as the programmer formally known as alta.
Ooh! Ooh! Sing "Raspberry Beret"!
Wrong name change then (Score:2)
What about server-side developers? (Score:3)
And I'm not even going to mention the time spent on systems that communcate with other systems over say web-services. Or systems developed for internal use...
Next poll should be how many Easter Eggs (Score:3)
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I've made three Easter Eggs. One of my favs was clicking on my name in the credits while holding certain keys plays the "Yeeeessss, master." Warcraft II audio clip :D
The contract for the last contracted code development I did was very clear about what would happen if any "easter egg" or similar feature was added to the code.
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Fair Use (Score:3)
True, I am infringing but I would be covered under the Fair Use defense (if some bizarre reason where they thought it was worth their time and could find the Easter Egg). Let see:
-Purpose/character: Easter Egg/hidden/non-commercial
-Amount used: small, one out of hundreds of sounds
-Effect on the market/value of the work: would not effect or damage the value of the work.*
*It might even boost the value of the item... even though this kind of blows my mind... there might be people who have not heard o
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I was in the military back in the mid-90s. Computer support specialty. We played Warcraft on the computers in the shop for a while, networked with IPX of course.
One day, the corporal in charge mentions he likes playing the game at home better (on a computer with a sound card and speakers), because of the sound effects. They are really cool. My response was, "There's sound effects?" It never occurred to me that the characters said anything when you clicked on them.
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What I didn't find out until later was that they had a set of "Pissed" sounds for each of the characters! Click on them/order them 8 or more times... they start using the pissed off sounds. "D'you want axe?", "I got axe for you!" , "Say hello to my little friend!"
The sheep would explode too when clicked enough times. Such fun memories.
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What the fuck? You don't understand fair use at all. Everything you mentioned could be used as an excuse to pirate MP3s ("non-commercial", "single out of thousands", "doesn't necessarily damage the market"), which... doesn't work. Essentially you're only OK because Blizzard doesn't care.
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Sounds like you don't understand Fair Use. There are many flaws in your thinking.
First- you are looking at the wrong amount used. I am talking about a part of a single work: a sound effect file from the Warcraft II game. You are thinking about a complete work, in this case a single (one full song). This is a big difference. If you were talking using only 5 secs of a 8.3 minute song... then it might be a closer comparison.
Second- you are confusing the market for a work vs the market for works (notice t
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Honestly don't know (Score:2)
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I never checked if I was mentioned in the projects I submitted code to. I never write my name in my own code (subversion tells me who did what, and I only want useful comments, not distracting ones).
The "Copyright (c) 2013 Errol Backfiring" comment is a useful one, though -- if copyright is indeed yours.
Other than that, I tend to agree.
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; 010199xx: bug
xx is initials of a now retired "programmer". The system we're working with now is littered with this shit, along with "not used anymore" comments that turn out to be false on inspection of the code, or 3 different methods doing the same exact thing - except for minor undocumented changes.
Forget version history, it is all "organised" by renaming source files by date, or sometimes functionality. Or better yet, named according to functionality the programmer thought he added, but didn't. So you
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I asked you not to post his code base on slashdot, bash.org, or coding horror. We need to talk in the morning.
Incorrect. You asked me to [redacted] in order to [redacted] with her, and then you said [redacted] and I slammed the door!
Meh (Score:2)
Does the software still needs to be used ? (Score:2)
Applications or projects? (Score:4, Funny)
And how does it count if you have contributed to a popular open source project used by thousands of applications? Do you count it once for the original project, 20 times for all the various forks, or thousands of times for the applications it is used in?
Maybe the poll should be:
0 (I don't program)
0 (I program, but not open source, or only under company credit)
1-4 (Open source application developer)
5-20 (Open source janitor)
20-100 (I worked an open source library)
100-1000 (I worked on a succesful open source library)
1000-10000 (I worked on the Linux kernel or KHTML)
10000+ (I am Linux Torwalds)
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I want a business card that lists my title as "Open Source Janitor".
Nethack (Score:2)
Last time I checked, I was still credited in the nethack credits even though I didn't do a whole lot really. I was mentioned in a StarTrek game article in one of the gaming magazines for a StarTrek game I wrote back in the late 80's. My name was on several PCBoard BBS plugin games.
Over the years I've written a bunch of little utility programs. Several for 3+Share back in the early late 80's for managing the 3+Menu config files and for across domain user and group administration (you had to change domains to
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Bukaroo Bonzai fan?
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Of course (see Journal :) ).
[John]
conventions and events? (Score:2)
Hmm ... I've been looking for something similar [stackexchange.com] for a few years now ...
Was finally going to bite the bullet and write something myself this year. Any chance you'd release the code for someone else to take a look at to see if they can adapt it to their needs?
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The ones provided by the followup links to your SE post seem pretty good in general (and have given me a few ideas for my site :) ). You're welcome to go take a look at mine if you like:
dga dot shadowrun dot us
Feel free to create an account and let me know; dungeon-master (at) rocketmail dot com
I can escalate your privs and let you poke at the back end.
It was a quick; 3 or 4 week project right after the convention while I got the site up and working as a functioning proof of concept for the convention organ
Does it count for... (Score:2)
old, archived projects? Haven't been able to do much lately, but who knows. I just identified a gap.
marketing trick? (Score:5, Interesting)
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Anyone else get the impression this 'poll' is just going to be used as a selling point to advertisers for slashdot?
It took you this long to figure out the polls have been gathering marketing data? Some were way more obvious than this.
somewhere on fish disk 478... (Score:5, Interesting)
I remember reading my name in an Amiga magazine waaay back in connection with a little program I wrote... very cool indeed, and totally unexpected to have it picked up by Fred Fish himself!
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That would be cool. Loved my Amiga 500.
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You still have all the Fish Disks on floppys?
1000+ was a lot to carry around to a club meeting, gave up that idea when we had them on CD and could count on a CDRom equipped machine being there.
I had to give up my amigas when I moved from NZ to USA
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But, .., I still have my CD32+SX32 (and A!000 and A500).
Game Tester baby!!!! W00000tttt111!!!! (Score:2, Interesting)
Didn't write a single line of code, just drank Mountain Dew and gamed all day, woohooo!!!!
The game I tested was for Xbox, I did testing work on the PC version as well including localization testing for 3 other languages but didn't get credit for that version, also did multiplayer testing on Battlefield 1942, but didn't get credit on that one either.
I can still crash the Xbox game, true story: we had been told we had the weekend to finish testing before the game would be sent to Microsoft for approval, I fou
Of course, I released it... (Score:2)
Sure, I put my name in all the software that I release.
For actual work? (Score:4, Insightful)
I've got my name in four pieces of released software because of my work in the games industry. However within a year or so, given a reasonable success rate, i'm going to have my name in the credits of at least as many games just for donating a relatively trivial bit of money to various kickstarter projects.
"Get your name in the credits!" is one of the cheapest and easiest perks to add for a software project on kickstarter and other similar sites.
Video games are helpful for this (Score:3)
Junkyard pinball
Revenge From Mars Pinball2000
Star Wars Ep 1 Pinball2000
Redcard Soccer PS2/Xbox
NBA Ballers PS2/Xbox
NBA Ballers Phenom PS2/Xbox
Mortal Kombat Deception (not 100% sure about main credits, but definitely one of the dev team/support photos you unlock in the Krypt)
City Of Heroes (I think, the credits on the web site were updated but not always accurate)
I am not a coder/programmer/developer... (Score:3)
... but I do test softwares. There are other people like support, leads, managers, etc. They all get credited in help about's credit list. :)
Buried in control modules (Score:2)
My code is buried in control modules so no one but the product release manager sees my name. (Well, maybe the developers who inherited projects after I moved on to better projects - assuming they actually read the release documents.)
Work as a gear-head, but software skills help (Score:2)
depends... (Score:2)
Depends on how you count. As a programmer, a couple. If you add in designer and tester (I've been beta tester on a few AAA titles before beta tests were the other word for "public release") then it's quite a few more.
Depends what you mean by "credited" (Score:2)
I took "credited" to mean that your name is mentioned in "About" box or installation screens of the software, so that's only one or two projects.
But if you're talking development logs and license agreements, there are probably more on the order of 75 projects that I've had a hand in which made it to production during a 30 year career. :)
Linux Kernel (Score:3)
linux/fs/ext3/xattr.c
What do I win?
shareware? (Score:2)
as an old shareware writer, I have/had my name on 30+ software items. not everything was 'successful' but it was usually of reasonable quality, for shareware.
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Shareware was awesome. That counts.
Missing Option: None, and blissfully so. (Score:2)
I am not proud enough of any of the projects I have worked on in my career to attach my name to.
Just two (Score:2)
Just two
For the 1st one:It is already extinct, but I helped on the online user registration system for a multi-player online game. The company was cool enough to include me as a named credit on the box, with the rest of those of us that worked on the registration/payment online stuff for it.
For the 2nd one: I think I am the only user, but I released it gpl in case someone besides me ever uses it, or finds parts of it useful for their own project(s).
Missing option (Score:2)
I write some code but my credits are all in IMDB you insensitive clod. ( nm1487742 )
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I write some code but my credits are all in IMDB you insensitive clod. ( nm1487742 )
So if we just showed up at WETA could we get a tour of the render farm?
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Nope those blinky lights are off limits sorry. But the Workshop does tours. http://www.wetanz.com/window-into-workshop/ [wetanz.com]
Beta (Score:2)
I beta tested an adventure game once. Now I'm in the credits list of that game. Nice!
I'm credited in a LOT of Unix stuff (Score:3, Funny)
You wouldn't know it from my Slashdot name, though.
My real name is #!/bin/sh
Counting individual commits (Score:2)
I'm pretty sure that I've been mentioned in more than 20 core patches to Drupal over the years.
Other than that, most of my open source code exists as personal projects in permanent pre-alpha state on github, so it doesn't really count as released.
Software not officially released? (Score:2)
What counts as released? Open-source stuff with an unknown number of users? Stuff written for one-off use? For friends? For clients? Only complete programs, or individual utilities?
Hard to tell... (Score:2)
My one and only open source project got forked after I stopped maintaining it.
hmmm... I voted zero, but (Score:2)
entirely syntactically incorrect pidgin code since I've not done any type of programming in nearly fifteen years and forgotten most of it:
{
for n=1 to 21{
for o=1 to 5{
append data(o) file(n+"program".bas)
next
}
}
{
for n=1 to 21{
ch. file(n+"program".bas)
next
}
DATA print $thisfilename
DATA print * Written by Tastecicles *
}
three loops, two nested. :) and if you can actually get that thing working...
There's 22.
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and this from the guy who codeveloped the Phonecian CMS...
I sign all the errors my code generates (Score:2)
After my illustrious military career, I took up coding. I write the code that displays errors and what not. Normally, the suits don't like it when you sign your code so that the end user sees it, but I figured out a way around that. I only signed the errors! They hardly notice.
Yours Truly,
General P. Fault
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Unfortunatelly sometimes I get my paycheck on credit ...
(see what my love of puns made me write ...)
Re:Zero (Score:4, Interesting)
My company owns all rights to my code. The only credit I get is a paycheck. That's fine with me.
I rather like the situation I'm in... code that I write at work specifically 'to be sold' is credited solely to the company. Code that I write for internal use (including worldwide distribution to parent, sister and daughter companies) gets my name prominently on the about screen.
In both cases however, the code is dual-copyright between myself and the company (other parts like graphics/images, code written by others, etc I have no claim to (so it's definitely in my interests to document and mark well what is "mine")). If I leave the company, I could fork any of the apps that I wrote wholly myself (a few of them); or at the very least reuse some useful component code I've written. Out of this deal, when I started I gave them a mountain of code I'd written previously under the same dual-copyright agreement, so they got a giant jump forwards at the time they hired me.
It is worth noting that we're not a company that really makes money out of selling software. Software is 'something that helps us do business' (by improving our hardware sales or general customer satisfaction) rather than being the business itself.
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I had a Nintendo you insensitive clod!