2 definitions by FatHairyCoder

tardis

A device often wished for by software developers who have been given unreasonable deadlines to complete their work. Although typically this would be used to give the benefit of hindsight to oneself in the past, many would wish to use it to kill the parent/grandparent of the project manager, thus ensuring they will never have been born.

Uh oh, we're going to miss our deadline, everyone in the Tardis. Boss, you stay here.

by FatHairyCoder March 23, 2005

Nexus

A hastily written software application given a cool sounding name to make developers feel more important, which ultimately fails to deliver due to non-existent requirements. Because of the cool sounding name, no one ever forgets it, particularly all the bad stuff, which off course the development team gets blamed for.

We need those requirements now or we'll have a Nexus on our hands!

by FatHairyCoder March 22, 2005