Any idea for a cool name for the remote tool suite?

On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 10:14 PM, stepharong <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi guys

Since we will push the remote tools (videos/web...) I would like to get some ideas for a cool name.
Any ideas?

Because Pharmide (looks like medicine or chemical product).
Since I vaguely remember some german Pharmide made me think about Fern(sehen) but this is not a good name.

For a change, I'm lacking original ideas :P

But of other suggestions, I like...

> Phresnel from Fresnel lenses [1] used in lighthouses to be visible over greater distances

Good googability and a *great* fit for Pharo's lighthouse theme.

There is one competing project https://github.com/lobid/Phresnel

but it looks abandoned and ranks low in searches.

> PharoAfar 

Except its a bit of a tongue twist and I'd shorten it to Pharofar, and maybe Pharophar.

far = at, to, or by a great distance

> Pharoscope from Pharo + Telescope 

Related terms: borescope, oscilloscope, spectroscope.

So far Phresnel is my phavorite.

cheers -ben

Hi,

I really enjoy how motivated people get when it is about finding a name :)

I don't agree PharmIDE is a bad name. Farming is a well known term when it comes to server installations (server farm) or other distributed stuff. So as it is not your context you get another impression. People that are in the context (e.g. me ;) ) might think different. So while I agree it has a medicinal taste I like the name and I think we could coin the term more sincere for projects around pharo based farms.
So my gut feeling says that keeping the IDE could make sense. The term cloud is burnt so CloudIDE is maybe not good. A successor of this would be SwarmIDE if we need something that is still a bit trendy. But PharmIDE has its uniqueness and that is a surplus. Ok, I must confess I named some things for distributed infrastrature also with the prefix Pharm :)

Norbert

On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 10:14 PM, stepharong <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> Hi guys
>
> Since we will push the remote tools (videos/web...) I would like to get some ideas for a cool name.
> Any ideas?
>
> Because Pharmide (looks like medicine or chemical product).
> Since I vaguely remember some german Pharmide made me think about Fern(sehen) but this is not a good name.


Following a theme of "superpower remote viewing"

 * Clairvoi - derived from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clairvoyance
915 googs is not too bad

* Psych - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychic projection
43,500,000 googs, not so good

* ESP - Extra Sensory Pharo
265,000,000 googs, bleh!

*  sckrii - derived from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrying
987 googs instead of 788,000 for Scry not too bad

* astrrall - derived from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astral_projection
87 googs instead of 55,100,000 for astral not to bad, but perhaps
trying a bit too hard


And btw, at home I refer to my own personal superpowers as "telepathetic"

cheers -ben

On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 10:14 PM, stepharong <[hidden email]> wrote:
> Hi guys
>
> Since we will push the remote tools (videos/web...) I would like to get some
> ideas for a cool name.
> Any ideas?
>
> Because Pharmide (looks like medicine or chemical product).
> Since I vaguely remember some german Pharmide made me think about
> Fern(sehen) but this is not a good name.

* distann - derive from distantool, or distant tool.
2700 googs not too bad.

* ansyble - derived from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansible
90 googs rather than 3,130,000 googs for ansible
and differentiates from competing project http://ansible.com

cheers -ben

But I agree with Stef.  My very first impression when I read the ANN
subject line was of a pharmaceutical/medical app.  Maybe a slight
contraction to "PharIDE", which in common usage would probably become
"pharide". Only 6k googs is not too bad.

btw, what is the "m" for in PharmIDE ?

cheers -ben

On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 9:15 PM, [hidden email] <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Am 30.01.2017 um 14:21 schrieb Ben Coman <[hidden email]>:
>
> But I agree with Stef.  My very first impression when I read the ANN
> subject line was of a pharmaceutical/medical app.  Maybe a slight
> contraction to "PharIDE", which in common usage would probably become
> "pharide". Only 6k googs is not too bad.
>
> btw, what is the "m" for in PharmIDE ?

It is not an acronym per se but a variation of farm. So it is pharo farm. PharIDE just kills it. In this case something else would be better.

Norbert

I'm not a big fan of cryptic names. I already think there are way too many in Pharo. You look at the names and have no idea what they do. Why not call it what it is: "Pharo Remote IDE" or "RemoteIDE".  It's simple and it tells the user EXACTLY what it is without digging into some obscure document, (or no document at all).

-- 
Brad Selfridge
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2017-01-30 14:21 GMT+01:00 Ben Coman <[hidden email]>:

btw, what is the "m" for in PharmIDE ?

First it is like farm.

Seconds it is Pharo Remote IDE 

+100

I'm not a big fan of cryptic names. I already think there are way too many in Pharo. You look at the names and have no idea what they do. Why not call it what it is: "Pharo Remote IDE" or "RemoteIDE".  It's simple and it tells the user EXACTLY what it is without digging into some obscure document, (or no document at all).

-- 
Brad Selfridge
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On 01/30/2017 08:25 AM, Denis Kudriashov wrote:

2017-01-30 14:21 GMT+01:00 Ben Coman <[hidden email]>:

btw, what is the "m" for in PharmIDE ?

First it is like farm.

Seconds it is Pharo Remote IDE 

+1 to simple names.

Pharo Remote.
No accronym involved, no lookup to know what it means.

A remote it also a noun, i.e. something you use to control your TV remotely :D

If you want more details... Pharo Remote Toolkit.
Tools is too abstract, toolkit is a set of tools meant to work
together o a particular kind of task..


Best regards,

Esteban A. Maringolo


2017-01-30 12:08 GMT-03:00 Volkert <[hidden email]>:

On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 9:32 PM, Norbert Hartl <[hidden email]> wrote:
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>> Am 30.01.2017 um 14:21 schrieb Ben Coman <[hidden email]>:
>>
>> But I agree with Stef.  My very first impression when I read the ANN
>> subject line was of a pharmaceutical/medical app.  Maybe a slight
>> contraction to "PharIDE", which in common usage would probably become
>> "pharide". Only 6k googs is not too bad.
>>
>> btw, what is the "m" for in PharmIDE ?

On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 9:25 PM, Denis Kudriashov <[hidden email]> wrote:
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> 2017-01-30 14:21 GMT+01:00 Ben Coman <[hidden email]>:
>>
>> btw, what is the "m" for in PharmIDE ?
>
>
> First it is like farm.
> Seconds it is Pharo Remote IDE


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> It is not an acronym per se but a variation of farm. So it is pharo farm. PharIDE just kills it. In this case something else would be better.

Instead you get Far-IDE.

But I do like the "farm" association.  So perhaps...
* Pharrem
which *sounds* like "farm" said real-slow like a farmer's drawl,
while avoiding the pharmaceutical association.

The two R's avoid it sounding like "fa-Rem".

The "rem" part associates more easily with "remote" than when the "e"
is dropped.

cheers -ben