Data Warehouse Becomes FAODEL
2018-01-12 Fri
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It's official: I'm renaming my main project at work to FAODEL: Flexible, asynchronous, data-object exchange libraries. FAODEL (pronounced fay-oh-dell) comes from a simplification of the Gaelic term faodhail, which is a land bridge used to cross between islands. Here are two examples between the Monach Islands in Scotland:

What's a faodhail? WikiSource says:
faodhail, ford, a narrow channel fordable at low water, a hollow in the sand retaining tide water: from N. vaưill, a shallow, a place where straits can be crossed, Shet vaadle, Eng. wade.