How to name your project

Here is an easy way to find a name for your software project.

1. Think of the general name/idea for what it is you're doing. For example: blog.

2. Craft a regexp and use it to grep /usr/share/dict/words.

    grep "b.*l.*o.*g" /usr/share/dict/words
    backlog
    backlog's
    backlogged
    backlogging
    backlogs
    bacteriological
    bacteriologist
    ...
   

3. Pick one.

Sometimes the name/idea makes a poor regexp (w.*e.*b.*l.*o.*g). In this case just screw around with it until it works. I use this to prevent having a million py* or cl-* projects lying around which are probably duplicately named with another project.