Halloween is almost here, and that means dressing up and going out to celebrate. Don’t be a party pooper and forgo your costume. Following in our annual tradition of costumes for the lazy developer, we present you with a number of ideas for costumes ranging from simple, nerdy, hilarious to spooky.

Cloud computing

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Are you a cloud developer? Wear your office title proud and be a cloud for Halloween! Doesn’t take much, just buy a bunch of cotton balls or pillow stuffing and glue them to a white shirt. If you really want to be fancy, you can put all your features on there too. Are you scalable? Agile? Accessible?

Artificial Intelligence

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Artificial intelligence is big these days, and if you go down the Arnold Schwarzenegger route, it can be a pretty easy costume. You will need a pair of black glasses (with a red dot on one of the lenses), a weapon, cutout gloves, a leather jacket, and a bare chest (if you are into that sort of thing).

Robot

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This one depends on how creative you want to get. Get a couple of boxes, paint one of them silver, make arm holes (this one should be large enough to fit around your body), then get another one and cut a hole in it so you can see (this one should be small enough to fit around your head.) That is a simple robot costume; if you want to have more fun with it, add buttons and whatever features your heart (robotic or biological) desires.

Java developer

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There is a joke among Java developers that goes:

“Why do Java developers wear glasses?”

“Because they can’t C#”

For the costume, wear gigantic glasses.