Development Tourettes

Development Tourette's was once considered a rare and bizarre syndrome, often seen in Computer Programmers and Software Engineers. Most often it is associated with the exclamation of obscene words or socially inappropriate and derogatory remarks while engrossed in an especially crap piece of code. Usually sufferers are unaware that they are actually talking outloud.

An annoyed programmer with Development Tourettes will often be found randomly swearing and screaming at their computer, in such a state of rage that they will not realise they are saying anything.

by Haem Eternal July 24, 2009

Developer Friendly

User Friendly is a common phrase to describe software that is user friendly. Developer Friendly would be used to describe the opposite. Seems corporate software is being written and developed by millenials that are thinking how quick their week is going to be since they don't work more than a few hours, from home, Tuesday till noon Friday.
Write it, test it, critique it, publish it. Well that is easy to use, I'll roll it out Monday.

Dustin: Steve, did you see the new IT request for a company assigned cell phone?

Steve: Sure did Dustin, I couldn't figure out which one I needed, a cell phone a smartphone or a mobile phone.

Dustin: For sure.....dude that developed the software knows how to use it.....he made it "Developer Friendly" not "User Friendly".

by Marcellus_Wallace October 12, 2020

character development

The development of a character within a story, that's given an improvement in characteristics and qualities. They may seem like a different person due to their actions & other's actions throughout the story.

'Kaz Brekker is like a whole different person by the end of Crooked Kingdom'
'Yeah, that was some good character development'

by sixcfcrows August 26, 2017

arrested development

The most original TV program in the noughties, HBO dissed it, and Fox fucked with it, denying millions of intelligent viewers and comedy aficionados good programming.

"How funny is that shit! hahahha! No... You don't get it...do you have arrested development syndrome? Is there something wrong with you?"

by Lillylyd November 11, 2006

Mannheim development

The instrumental development in a song or piece of music. Most commonly at the start, instruments will slowly be introduced the more the song/piece goes on.

First pioneered by the composers of the Mannheim orchestra some time in the late 19th century the musical discovery has been used a lot in pop, rock, classical and other music genres.

"The song starts with a Mannheim development and then gets into the main melody."

by ScissorCut April 17, 2020

Kidney Stone Software Development Process

The "Kidney Stone Software Development Process" is a degenerate process where releasing software to the field is incredibly painful but eventually "passes" and reaches customers. Developers within the process find that once the code portion of the project is complete, there are so many gates held by so many other internal groups that the software must first pass through, including peer review, quality assurance, documentation, not to mention possible conflicting schedules of other teams, product owners and managers, that the customers may not see the finished product for a long time. The process is akin to passing the proverbial kidney stone - incredibly painful, but eventually, it passes through.

We use the Kidney Stone Software Development Process at work; I'm still shepherding the finished code through multiple painful gates - who knows when this will actually ship.

by Spokko April 10, 2019

game development

A bait teachers use to lure students in learning computer science.

Awww man, bitch said I'll be making Pacman and shiz, all she made me do was make the computer say hello world. smh. game development is a lie.

by agrammernazi July 13, 2016