ALT.NET Geek Code

ALT.NET Geek Code is for members of ALT.NET, a collection of users of the Microsoft .NET Framework. As Microsoft’s MSDN Magazine put it in 2008:

Last year David Laribee coined the term “ALT .NET” to describe a coalescing community of like-minded individuals within the larger world of the Microsoft® .NET Framework who felt a growing frustration that Microsoft tooling, guidance, and .NET culture at large did not reflect or support an important set of core values.

In the author’s words, it’s ” a code that describes the processes and tools that I like to use to develop (as of this moment…these things tend to evolve)”.

Though the spec can be reverse-engineered from the defunct encoder, there was no spec created.

Example

IOC(SM):IOC(CW):IOC(Nin):MOC(RM):MOC(MQ):MOC(TM):MOC(!?):TDD(NU):TDD(Xu):TDD(Mb):SCC(Svn):SCC(Git):SCC(TFS):SCC(Lame):SCC(Gmail):ORM(NH):ORM(SS):ORM(L2S):XPP(++):DDD(T+):DDD(+):DDD(!?):JSL(Jq):JSL(MS):JSL(p+):JSL(s+):CIS(CC):CIS(psh+):CIS(bat-):GoF(++)