Comments on: The true meaning behind Apollo, Atlas, Ajax, and Dionysius

By: Prof Paulo Maximo

Prof Paulo Maximo — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 04:12:40 +0000

Hey, hey!

No more interest in naming frameworks using greek mythology?
I told you: letÂ´s use name of pharaohs!
Hmmm… could you imagine yourself using ‘Imhotep’ or even ‘Tutmea’ libraries?

BTW, is anyone using YUI or Dojo or ZapatecÂ´s Suite? What are your impressions?

regards

By: Luis' Parenthesis

Luis' Parenthesis — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:47:31 +0000

Dionysus (Dionysian): intoxication, celebration of nature, instinctual, intuitive, pain, individuality dissolved and hence destroyed, wholeness of existence, orgiastic passion, dissolution of all boundaries, excess, human being(s) as the work and glorification of art, destruction.

Sounds more like the coming back of Front Page than anything worth maintaining to me! I’ve never woken up covered in vomit the day after a debauchery, but I would expect the code of this application’s to smell just about the same.

So, yeah, having PHP on the server side would appear to be an appropriate choice…

By: halans

halans — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:15:16 +0000

What about Leonidas? We know he kicked ass in 300.

By: Prof Paulo Maximo

Prof Paulo Maximo — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 22:06:01 +0000

So, what’s the next?

- An OOP language named ‘Thor’?
- Another framework, named ‘Persaeus’?
- Zeus, Olympus, Diana, Prometheus… and so on.

Let the greeks rest in peace!
I purpose using pharaoh’s names.

I’ll write a PERL module nam’d ‘Tuthankhamon’. Or ‘Amenophis’.
Or even ‘Imhotep’ (‘Mummy, the movie’ ?! Save us, Rachel Weiss.).

Hey, friends, don’t stole *my* brand new ideas! (May I register them after someone do it?)

(When BASIC and COBOL were the *only* options, we weren’t worried about names… Just to code…)

By: Valery Silaev

Valery Silaev — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 09:40:59 +0000

Apollo helped Hector to fight Ajax during Trojan war…
If now Ajax & Apollo are competitive technologies, what/who is Hector? ;)

By: Bernard

Bernard — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 21:04:59 +0000

In the same vein I named my software company Salamis Software. (In The Iliad, Salamis is the island where Ajax was king.) As expected, it’s completely lost on everyone. So much for being a smart-ass.

By: Venkat

Venkat — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 10:25:06 +0000

How about Ajax 2.0?

By: Rizqi Ahmad

Rizqi Ahmad — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 20:25:01 +0000

Doesn’t Xulrunner count as web-desktop framework?

By: Keith Peters

Keith Peters — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 19:03:36 +0000

You guys take this stuff way too seriously! ;)

Besides, check out the logo. I think it’s more likely we’ll be seeing stuff like Voyager and Discovery.

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:02:33 +0000

Ajax was _merely_ human? Bah! Being human and overcoming adversity or doing the impossible is much more appealing than being a god who has an intrinsic nature that automatically affords him a position obtained without a challenge. On the other hand, that Ajax killed himself because he didn’t get a prize isn’t a position to aspire to.

By: Michael Mahemoff

Michael Mahemoff — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:39:03 +0000

“And I thought Ajax was all about cleaning products!”

Ivory towers view:
Ajax, Atlas, Apollo

In the trenches view:
Ajax, Flash, Comet

;)

By: Dean Edwards

Dean Edwards — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:29:59 +0000

And I thought Ajax was all about cleaning products!

http://folk.uio.no/hpv/linuxtoons/linux-detergent.jpg