It’s a Fugture!
Yesterday a friend of mine coined a new term that will be one of my favorite words for a while. I was doing some testing of a functional area of the website we’re working on and found some unexpected behavior that at first I thought was a bug but on more thought, and realizing that it had some benefits, determined it might actually be a feature that we just didn’t document very well for the user.
I IMed my friend who’s managing the project and explained my thoughts…
Friend: interesting… what’s the cross between a bug and a feature? beature? fugture?
Lindsay: heh.
Lindsay: I like fugture
Lindsay: or fug for short
Lindsay: beature is too much like beautiful… and a fugture is anything but beautiful!!
So it’s all Fugtures now, baby!
New terminology can make old problems into their own solutions! Instead of spending hours working out the fixes for the mile long list of change requests you inherited with maintaining someone else’s old code, just tell the client that it’s fine the way it is…call it Fugture-Rich!
Too bad it doesn’t really work that way… oh well, back to searching for some more fugs to squash.
