Insane Programming

What do you do if a project isn’t going as planned? Well, you could whine about it, or make the best out of it and see the funny side of things. Today, we decided to introduce our Java Coding Achievements. The goal is to get as much achievements per month. A comprehensive list of what can be achieved:

• The Secretary
  Check in at least 2000 new or changed lines of code in one go
• Pokemon Master
  Catch all exceptions (Exception, RuntimeException or Throwable do not count)
• Time For An Upgrade
  Take more than 10 minutes compiling your code
• Breaking and Entering
  Be more than a day idle because of machine malfunction
• Dealbreaker
  Break the build
• Demolition man
  Break the build 5 days in a row
• Hit and Run
  Break the build on your last commit of the day
• Bullet Train
  Finish more than 5 features in a day
• EPA Approved
  Finish more than 5 features in a day with more than 80% code coverage
• Environmentalist or The Green Lantern
  Commit at least 20 correctly written, passing unit tests
• Nice and Smooth
  Create a feature start to finish without ever having to go back to analysis
• The Code Factory
  Finish 50 features in one month
• The Matrix
  Use 20 or more services in a single feature
• Bugs Bunny
  Fix 20 bugs in a day
• Elmer Fudd
  Fix bugs (or try to) 5 days in a row
• Blue Monday
  Keep Hudson blue for a whole day (team)
• Once In A Blue Moon
  Keep Hudson blue for a whole week (team)
• Bulk Delivery
  Check in more than 50 files at once
• In Touch with my Female Side
  Create a function which looks nice, but no one really understands
• Einstein!
  Come up with a solution that saves days of work
• Sabotage!
  Bring up an alternative that undermines days of work
• Spaghetti Monster
  Write a method with more than 500 lines of code
• The Mathematician
  Define 15 local variables with a single character
• The Multitasker
  Have more than 50 source files open
• The Cloner
  Copy-pasted more than 50 Lines
• Break The Camel’s Back
  Create a camel case variable with at least 10 humps
• The Writer
  Write a comment with more than 100 words
• Field Master
  Have 100 fields in a single class
• Magic Numbers
  Write an enum with 30 fields
• Overload
  More than 10 overloads of a method
• Don’t forget the taxes.
  Write a class with ten levels of inheritance
• Timber!!
  Print source code
• Equal Opportunist
  Write a single class with public, private, protected, package-local, final, static, transient and volatile members
• Breakdancer
  Have 10 breakpoints in a file
• The Swedish Chef
  Ducooment a methud oor cless veet cumments leeke-a thees
• Highway To Hell
  Run 4 IBM products or more on your workstation at the same time
• Scrollmaster blaster
  Check in a line of code 300 characters or longer
• Resistance Is Futile
  Discuss an architectural concept with the architect(s)
• We are Borg
  Agree with the architect’s vision
• Chuck Norris
  Get 20 achievements in a month
• Rollercoaster
  Check in code that uses nested loops 3 levels deep or more
• Obfuscator
  Check in code that uses variables with 1 character names
• Alzheimer
  Get an OutOfMemoryError
• I’m From India
  Get a ClassCastException

Feel free to add more in the comments!