Friday, May 6, 2016

Political stupidity

For years, like millions of other developers, we have used the term "Dirty Page" to describe a common feature whereby the page knows if the user has changed something and prompts the user to save if they try to exit the page before saving. We also use the page's dirty state to enable the save and cancel buttons.


Yesterday we were all informed by senior management that the term "Dirty Page" has negative connotations and cannot be used in future. We were not given an alternative term to use. So far we have...

"The page formerly known as dirty"
"Stinky, filthy, disgusting page"
"If you think this is dirty you should see the code"
"Preserve My Stuff"

Your tax payer dollars at work!

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