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I am a programmer who is still in high-school, which means I do this as a hobby (for now...). I love using C# and one good feature of C# is namespaces. But my namespaces names all suck (it's just my name). What would be a good nickname to use for my namespaces?

P.S. One rule: DON'T USE AARDVARK (it's not my last name but it looks horrible as a namespace name)!

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I've found that using the function for a namespace is best. The function is likely not change as much as the product name, especially at the namespace level.

So are you writing a financial application? Then try "Financials" as a namespace.

I've found that namespace collision is not as big of a deal as you learn initially. At the same time, I don't write a lot of 3rd party software.

Michael Hedgpeth
+1  A: 

How about InProgress, as an acknowledgment of the fact that software is never 'done' :)

allgeek
+3  A: 

I read this post from Brad Abrams about namespace, it's pretty informative.

J.W.
Very good blog post by Brad. I never thought about that before!
Lucas McCoy
yes, grab the book to read if possible, it's one of the best book to write good api, including a lot of naming wisdom. After all, you are not only interested in "namespace" :-)
J.W.
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What's wrong with your name? In Java the package names are usually the reverse domain names.

lothar
My real name is boring. I want something lively. Hey your the guy from that other post!
Lucas McCoy