What if Visual Studio had Achievements?

• Spaghetti Monster – Written a single line with more than 300 characters
• Wild One – Mixed tabs and spaces for indentation more than 5 times in a single line
• The Organizer – Created a Solution with more than 50 projects
• The Portal – Created a circular project dependency
• The Multitasker – Have more than 50 source files open at the same time
• The Code Keeper – Uninstalled Resharper because it made you redundant
• Pasta Chef – Created a class with more than 100 fields, properties or methods
• Procedural Programmer – Created a method with more than 10 out parameters
• Steam Powered – Added Visual Studio as a Steam game
• The Poet – Written a source file with more than 10,000 lines
• The Enterprise – Build Solution took more than 10 minutes
• Highway to Hell – Successfully created a WCF service
• The Explainer – Written a comment with more than 100 words
• TPS Reports – Created a Crystal Reports Project
• Rage Quit – ALT+F4 after a failed bug fix
• Ooooh Shiny – Written 100 extensions methods
• Look Ma – Written an infinite Fibonacci generator using yield
• The Engineer – Killed a zombie with The Wrench
• The Architect – Created 25 Interfaces in a single project
• The Right Way – Test method is longer than the tested method
• The Defender – Checked every argument for null exceptions
• Pokemon Programming – Caught all the exceptions
• Black Magic – Implemented a RealProxy
• Gimme back my ASM – Used ILGenerator
• I’m Sorry – Created a new Visual Basic Project
• The SEO Expert – ASP.NET MVC Routing table with more than 100 routes
• The Matrix – Windows Forms with more than 100 controls
• The Daredevil – UpdatePanels nested more than 3 layers deep
• Just a Test – Nested multiline C-style comments that caused a compilation error
• Warm Bath – Successfully consumed a non .NET SOAP web service
• Old School – Defined more than 100 static objects
• The Cloner – Copy-pasted more than 50 lines
• The Dependency – Referenced more than 30 projects
• Paying the bills – Imported a Visual Basic project
• First Hit – Included a Codeproject.com library into your project and it actually compiled
• Paula – Define a firstname field with value Brillant
• Every Option Considered – Created an enum with more than 30 values

And from the comment’s section….

• The Oracle – Complete a project without a single line of commentThe Numerologist: Name all your controls: control1, control2, control3, etc…
• The Evangelist – Created at least one project for every project type.
• The Janitor – Converted a VB 6 project to VB.NET
• Bard – typed at least 100 keystrokes in sync with the currently playing music.
• Keyboard Ninja – sequentially pressed 200 keys from the set “direction arrows, home, end, page up, page down, ctrl, shift, alt”, with no other keys in between.
• The Plotter – 50 consecutive lines of code only containing GDI+/System.Drawing calls.
• Dark Legacy – implemented a binary COM interface in C# without a type library.
• The Potter – created an application that displays a spinning Utah teapot in 3D.
• Spock – All project names are Star Trek references.
• Zoolander – Project names are arcane animal species.
• Black Hole – Millions of lines of code never see production.
• The Troll: Checked in a file where the only thing changed was some other devs initials to your own.
• Marry Ayn Rand: Code as cleverly as possible and if other devs cant figure it out, they should be fired.
• The Resharpest: Check in a file after the only changes were running Resharper Code Cleanup.
• Do the Houdini: Name classes after common design patterns, but do not implement the design patten in them.
• Copy machine: Using copy-paste to insert more than 100 lines at a time
• The Juggler – running multiple instances of VS at the same time
• The Architect of Doom – Hit windows forms control limit (65K) on a single form
• Spaghetti Bolognese – Using the goto statement
• The Compound Sentence – created a method name containing one or more of the words: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so.
• The Graffiti Artist – added a philosophical, rebellious, provocative, or humorous comment accompanied by ASCII art.
• The Name Dropper – made a relevant pop culture reference in the form of a variable, method, or class name.
• The Hungarian – Name your variables and controls: strbldOut, btnButton1, etc.
• Godlike – Check “Disable all warnings” in the Compiler tab of your project.
• The Validator – Override the JavaScript “__V()” function in an ASP.NET project.
• Wormhole – Deliver a project ahead of schedule.
• Budgeteer – Deliver a project while staying under budget.
• I Speak Many Tongues – Create a solution with multiple projects that each use a different language.
• Doc Master – Write comments for every class, interface, method, and variable. Even private ones.
• Assemble This! – Write a project all in MSIL.
• The Archivist – Added 10 projects to source control
• Globe Trotter – Implemented 20 different languages into an application
• Wild Globe Trotter – Implemented 20 different languages into an application without using any built in methods
• Resourceful – Actually created a working resource DLL using VB
• Overloaded – Create a method with more that 10 overloads
• The Virtual Juggler – Running multiple instances of VS at the same time in multiple Virtual Machines
• Prototype – Create over 100 Console Applications
• Telling a story – Created a method longer then 100 lines.
• Epic tale – Created a method longer then 300 lines.
• Spelunker – Step through 200 lines of code and into 10 method calls without hitting a breakpoint.

Source (article and comments!): http://blog.whiletrue.com/2011/01/what-if-visual-studio-had-achievements/