Where is justicegrayisourhero.com?
THIS POLL IS GARBAGE
In the spirit of silly names, wow about one based on my favorite return value ever: error_success.com
Or go old school with haltandcatchfire.com
None of the listed names are very good. If it was my site I would go for something more catchy and less obvious. simple example. âcodeappeal.comâ --copyright of noone, inc. 2004ever
while all the names listed above are not horrible they are just lack-luster in my personal opinion. (Constructive Criticism?)
âWeâve racked our collective brains, and this is the best we could do. Weâd like your input to see if weâre on the right track.â
Jeff, Iâm normally a fan of Coding Horror for its straight talking but thereâs something fishy about this post. I canât believe this is the best you could do. After all, you came up with codinghorror.com (and I wouldnât be surprised to see it used for the new venture).
This post is all part of the launch of codeorange.com or whatever other name you really have in mind.
Thanks for the â10 Worst Domain Namesâ link though, which really did have me laughing out loud ⌠I donât believe them for a minute either.
How about: devcomm1.com ?
It doesnât seem to be taken or squatted and is clearly an abbreviation of developer community while also playing with the alert status DEFCON1, which (according to Wikipedia) refers to maximum readiness (and that nuclear weapons would be authorised, but hopefully in a dev role it wouldnât come to that!)
Privatevoid Private Gold ? X_X
Jeff Atwood said:
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but my vote goes for metaprogramming.com.
This was my vote as well, [âŚ]
Interesting: in my eyes âmetaprogrammingâ and âstackoverflowâ are the two names that stand out most. I immediately preferred (and voted for) âmetaprogrammingâ, and decided that âstackoverflowâ was not for me. At all. Now I see why: these two names are connoted in such a way they are almost contradictory.
I like the ideas implied by âmetaprogrammingâ, such as DSLs. It makes me thinks of languages like Lisp or Haskell. âstackoverflowâ, on the other hand, makes me thinks of C and C++, which I hate when used for anything but highest performance, lowest level, or embedded code.
About jkndrknâs criteria, âstackoverflowâ is easier to peak an hear, slightly more difficult to type (for me), and is jargon. I think being (connoted) jargon can account for many votes. The question is who is your target?
Youâre much better off, IMHO, thinking of a distinctive, catchy name that doesnât mean anything.
I agree. At-least donât pick a name that âtries to hardâ to be meaningful. I emailed you a few names which I think might be catchy and donât seem be âtrying too hardâ to make sense.
damn I made a typo in my previous comment! 
Youâre much better off, IMHO, thinking of a distinctive, catchy name that doesnât mean anything.
I agree. At-least donât pick a name that âtries too hardâ to be meaningful. I emailed you a few names which I think might be catchy and donât seem be âtrying too hardâ to make sense.
stackoverflow.co.uk - registered on 07-Apr-2008.
I guess Mr Greg Tudor liked the name too.
http://webwhois.nic.uk/cgi-bin/whois.cgi?query=stackoverflow.co.uk
and the winner isâŚ
with a whole city themeâŚ
âyour destination for coding blissâŚâ
"population: 32,768"
âCome spend some time in sunny Codesville, USA!â
ah⌠I have lots of ideas for that themeâŚ
(or leave off the s: codeville⌠but I like the way the first one rolls off the tongue better⌠you could get both just in case, though 
)
Now that you have your name AND a great creative theme⌠let me in on the deal 
Wow. GOSUB 10!!!
I learned programming using that back in the 80âs.
That would be cool, but I donât think many people today would get the meaning.
I would suggest, Jeff, that once youâve given enough time for voting on this round, take the top 3 and do another vote.
ok, Iâll reveal my original pick (humbledeveloper.com), and Iâll also go on record to say that fizzbuzz would be even better.
Now, Jeff, because this website would be associated to this new project youâre working on, clearly we could be more helpful if we knew more about the project itself, no ?
You say it will be a âdeveloper communityâ but you know as well as any of us that the developer community is quite an heterogeneous Blob (with a capital âBâ, like in the movie), so that might be a bit too vagueâŚ
Nâest pas ?