The recent meme of remixing city transit maps with anagrams of station names got me thinking – what hidden truths could be found in our industry?

Ruby On Rails fans would go for “Our Sly Brain”, but for my money “I Buy or Snarl” better captures developer polarisation.

The folks at The Server Side no doubt think of their site as a “Revered Thesis”, but the persistent flame wars over there might make “Seethed Rivers” a better fit (detractors face an embarrassment of riches: “Deserters Hive”, “Heisted Server”, “Seeders Thrive”, or even “Shit served ‘ere”).

Technology de jour, the Spring Framework, gets off lightly with “Irk we sprang from” or “Grasp reform, wink!”, while the equally fashionable design ideas of Dependency Injection (Jed Peed: Incontinency) and Inversion of Control (Sit on Forlorn Novice) both conjure strong if slightly disturbing visuals.

The Apache crowd aren’t immune. Apache Maven is A Camp Heaven or a Caveman Heap, depending on point of view (Apache Ant gives A Cheap Tan, but I’m really not sure what to make of that one). Apache Struts suffers from problems of performance (Shatters a CPU) and architecture (Such a Spatter!), while the bloat of Apache Tomcat can’t be hidden (Compact ETA? Ha!)

Hibernate haters will like “Ban It Here” and there is something nicely Clintonesque about “Breath in”. Take a deep breath, just don’t exhale.

Hanni’s colourful sprayings over at the BileBlog will, I’m sure, see him live up to the alter-ego of “Libel Gob”.

I’m sure there is still plenty of low hanging fruit. Contributions from the truly bored are more than welcome.