A term much beloved of self-important programmers, who love to rant tiresomely about such things as modification and redistribution of software, oblivious to the fact that most of us couldn't care less whether our software is free as in free speech, free beer, free love, or freestyle snowboarding, as long as we don't have to pay for it.
by robin765 March 20, 2008

one who is an engineer of software and spends 20 percent of his/her day doing so the other 80 percent is looking up porn!
by Dr. Fatz February 2, 2004

The process of designing and developing a piece of binary code that does stuff like sharing MP3s, creating popups, sending out spams...
by Billy Gate January 23, 2004

all the various written "programs" ... especially those with clearly defined do's and don't's ... that people use to guide their lives, such as the Bible, etiquette books, penal codes, People Magazine, etc.
Reverend Gerald really hammers home in his sermons that the Bible is our primary piece of social software and that the 10 Commandments are all we really need.
by Sexy Simian December 1, 2010

Person1: So what do you do in Software design?
Person2; nothin' bludge and play unreal
Person1: your so gonna fail
Person2: i know :(
Person2; nothin' bludge and play unreal
Person1: your so gonna fail
Person2: i know :(
by ChampPunk December 30, 2007

Have you seen the new windows?
Yeah. its total shite. like i expected it to be. mmmm smells like WinME to me
Yeah. its total shite. like i expected it to be. mmmm smells like WinME to me
by Jobe October 10, 2003

Boring, cubicle work which involves a lot of lines of code and countless hours of boring work. Requirements are a tie and mad computer skills. Best example of a software engineer: Peter from Office Space.
by Sean Sinha January 27, 2004
