code face

The place where programmers develop source code (as opposed to conceptually distant areas such as design and marketing).

Noun

  1. The place where programmers develop source code (as opposed to conceptually distant areas such as design and marketing).
    • […] hype merchants of the computing world are up and running off towards the horizon before the IS workers toiling away at the code face are even crawling. - 1992, Patrick A V Hall, Software reuse and reverse...
    • Why is it that, everywhere we look in the software world from academics, for whom computation is an abstract notion way above the trivializing clutter of actual computers, to hard-core systems designers and programmers,...
    • This was a CIO Magazine poll of senior managers, not a poll of programmers at the codeface. Programmers will get enough deserved blame in the Y2k aftermath; please don't incite undeserved blame. - 1999, Barb Knox, “Y2K...

Origin

Blend of code + coalface.

Forms

code faces codeface