We're Running Out of Dogs
Like any nerdy good team of developers, we use internal code names for our projects while in development (think "Tiger" for Mac OSX). It helps keep things secret. We feel more like Jack Bauer and less like a programmer.
Here at BIG Folio, we've been using species of dogs for our projects. Admin version 2 was "Wolf" and version 3, which was just released, was code-named "Fox".
We have two new secret projects in the works right now. Code names: "Coyote" and "Hyena". We have a problem, however. There aren't that many dog species on the planet (in fact, foxes aren't even true dogs). Now I know why Apple chose cats-there's a lot more.
So, other than "Jackal", there aren't many dog species left with cool names. What to do? I suppose we could use dog breeds, but "Project Labradoodle" doesn't sound very appealing.
Come 2009, we'll either need to find new code names-or just stop makin' stuff.