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Contents 1 Software names 1.1 Wesabe 1.2 Yojimbo 1.3 rake 1.4 hoe 1.5 facets 1.6 ratchets 1.7 rash 1.8 Fossilize 1.9 RailFrog 1.10 exacto 1.11 Faucets 1.12 SackCloth 1.13 citriski 1.14 ClassRoom 1.15 XD 1.16 Campfire 1.17 Ruby 1.17.1 Rubricks 1.17.2 RubyGems 1.17.3 redMine 1.18 Markdown 1.19 rSh3ll 1.20 rubish 1.21 Piggy Bank 1.22 Joomla 2 [Recursive acronyms (category)] 2.1 GNU is Not UNIX 2.2 Binc Is Not Courier 2.3 PHP Hypertext Preprocessor 2.4 LAME Ain't an MP3 Encoder 3 [Domain names (category)] 3.1 Misc 3.2 http://ActsAsFlinn.com 3.3 Fancy TLDs 3.4 German 4 Poor names 4.1 Game Boy 5 Article metadata

[edit] Software names

[edit] Wesabe

http://www.wesabe.com/ Wesabe: Take Control of Your Money

A clever play on Wasabi. Possibly a [Portmanteau (category)] with "Web"?

[edit] Yojimbo

Not only is it a catchy name (with a catchy logo of some kind of [ninja]/martial arts person), it also has a catchy tagline, "Master the Onslaught". They are masters of marketing...

[edit] rake

[Portmanteau (category)] of ruby + make

[edit] hoe

Play on rake ... another garden tool.

[edit] facets

Rubies and gems have facets (edges). Rhyming:

• facets/core
• facets/more
• facets/yore

See Facets

egzzulqd86qjyi23 orlistat orlistat

[edit] ratchets

Tools...

[edit] rash

play on bash, ...

[Portmanteau (category)] of "Ruby as shell"

[edit] Fossilize

[Figurative (category)]

http://rubyforge.org/projects/fossilize/

Fossilize is a plugin for Ruby on Rails that allow developers pack their applications as Gems and distribute them...

[edit] RailFrog

http://cvsdude.com/trac/railfrog/cms

Railroad frogs are the sections of railroad track that guide rail car wheels from one track to the other. We chose the name because it's symbolic of the guidance Railfrog gives you in getting your new website published, smoothly and effortlessly. And yeah, also because we like frogs.

[edit] exacto

[edit] Faucets

http://rubyforge.org/projects/faucets/

"Fixtures for Watir"

Double wordplay!

• [Wordplay (category)] on the alternative meanings of "fixture".
• [Wordplay (category)] on the [sounds-like-word] of "watir" ("water").

[edit] SackCloth

[Wordplay (category)]

http://rubyforge.org/projects/sackcloth/

In the mode of RedCloth and BlueCloth, SackCloth provides a simple text-to-XHTML markup method

[edit] citriski

[Portmanteau (category)] of citrus and wiki?

http://rubyforge.org/projects/citriski/

[edit] ClassRoom

http://rubyforge.org/projects/classroom/

ClassRoom is a Ruby 'class server' powered by DRb. You can upload and amend classes on the fly, and it will serve classes and objects to client applications, allowing client apps to use them as if they're local classes.

[edit] XD

SVN::XD module is a svn_wc (working copy) replacement (XD is a [character increment (category)] of WC).

http://svk.bestpractical.com/view/About

[edit] Campfire

http://www.campfirenow.com/

Campfires bring to mind a circle of people huddled around a fire, telling jokes, singing, and talking (all good connotations). Just like a real campfire, the Campfire software promotes real-time conversation...

[edit] Ruby

"Ruby" allows for all kinds of fun wordplays.

[edit] Rubricks

http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubricks/

Rubricks is ajax style content management system powered by rails.

A modification of the word "rubric"?

[edit] RubyGems

...

[edit] redMine

http://rubyforge.org/projects/redmine/

redMine is a project management web application: issues tracking, news, documents and files management.

I have no idea if that was their intent, but it makes me think of a mine where rubies (red objects) are mined.

[edit] Markdown

(play on markup ... simple markup)

Markdown [1]

[edit] rSh3ll

(Amazon S3 command shell for Ruby)

[Portmanteau (category)] of S3 + shell

Interesting use of capitalization and using a 3 as an E.

[edit] rubish

(A Ruby on Rails CMS)

Humor: "Some may call it rubbish, but we think it's perfect" [2]

[edit] Piggy Bank

Apparently so named because you can store a bunch of data / metadata that you collect on the Web in your own personal "bank" (database)...

[edit] Joomla

http://www.joomla.org/index.php?Itemid=44&option=com_faq&catid=9

The name Joomla is a phonetic spelling for the Swahili word "Jumla", which means "all together" or "as a whole".

...

It was chosen as the entire Core Team was unanimous in their commitment to protecting the interests of the project and community.

...

This name was chosen from thousands of recommendations by the community, and even went through an arduous review session by branding and marketing professionals who also felt that Joomla was the best choice of the lot.

I also like how the name reminds me vaguely of the Mambo project (since they both are bisyllabic, and sound sort of "African") that is in its heritage, but doesn't remind me of it so much that it's distracting.

[edit] [Recursive acronyms (category)]

[edit] GNU is Not UNIX

[edit] Binc Is Not Courier

[edit] PHP Hypertext Preprocessor

[edit] LAME Ain't an MP3 Encoder

[edit] [Domain names (category)]

(These are real (registered) domain names...)

[edit] Misc

http://accessify.com/ "accisify.com -- Verb: To make accessible"

Tools, wizards, articles and tutorials on Web Accessibility for the conscientious web developer

http://thatswhatimtalkingabout.org

http://betterexplained.com/

http://parentnode.org/

[edit] http://ActsAsFlinn.com

A play on Rails "acts_as" plugins...

Very "Rails-y". Just by looking at the URL, you can tell it's going to be a site about Rails stuff ... which could be a good thing or a bad, depending on what you're after...

[edit] Fancy TLDs

http://caboo.se

-.us:

• http://script.aculo.us/
• http://mir.aculo.us/
• http://locusfoc.us/

http://brainspl.at

http://shnoo.gr/ "A Teaspoon of Shnoo.gr"

-i.st:

• http://project.ioni.st/
• http://photo.graphi.st/
• http://scie.nti.st/

[edit] German

http://neugierig.org/

[edit] Poor names

[edit] Game Boy

[edit] Article metadata

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