Ask Slashdot: Dedicating Code? 186
First time accepted submitter The_Buse writes "This week I lost my grandmother and after returning to work (as a web developer) I find myself looking for some way to dedicate something to her memory. Unfortunately, I'm no author so I can't dedicate a book to her, and I can't carry a tune so penning a song in her honor is out of the question. What I can do is write one hell of a web app, and after nearly a year of development my (small) team and I are nearing the release date of our next product. My question is, have you ever dedicated a project/app/code in honor of someone? What's the best way to do it: comment blocks in the header, tongue-in-cheek file names, Easter eggs? Or is this a horrible idea all together?"
what I'd do (Score:3, Informative)
Either a comment block in HTML or a paragraph in humans.txt
Re:Horrible idea (Score:2, Informative)
...honor her memory by doing something with your life that would make her proud of you.
Best thing I've ever read on Slashdot since it started.
As usual, check out Debian (Score:5, Informative)
As usual with all other topics, check out what Debian has been doing for more than a decade.
Pretty much every release this century has some dedication to devs who died since the last release.
Sad, but true, that anytime you get a thousand or so people together in a group, even if they're mostly young and apparently healthy, you're gonna lose one every year or so.
Re:Probably Not (Score:2, Informative)
Also there's Vista, named after Steve Ballmer's daughter, Vista Ballmer.
No, no it's not. Ballmer only has three sons. I'm pretty sure none of them are named Vista.