Neologism corner: commando

Somebody who chooses to use a command line tool like sqlplus.exe over a GUI.

I coined this unthinkingly in a Forum thread about SQL editors which had descended into another "real programmers use vim" yawn fest. However, Brian Tkatch picked me up on it, so I had to retrofit a justification.

I chose the word because a commando is a member of an elite unit of toughnuts, which would seem to fit the self-image of soi disant real programmers. It was only afterwards that I noticed the resonance with "command line" itself. And it also brings fresh life to the phrase "going commando".

Update

The ever-reliable web-comic xkcd proffers a neat encapsulation of how these conversations tend to go.

Neology Corner: Reshoring

I am introducing a new coinage into the wild: reshoring. This is what happens when a project that has been offshored turns out to have been wrongshored (heh); when everything's gone pearshaped and the project is brought back to be sorted out. Sample usage: "Have you heard about Project FFIENNES? They're reshoring it from Bangalore."

Was my coining of this phrase inspired by any specific project I have come across? You might think that, I couldn't possibly comment.