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I did put a Happy Halloween message once that turns the screen black and after 3 seconds display message once on the day of Halloween of course. It was fun and client liked it. 
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
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I do not include easter eggs in production code, since if an application does not work properly or has a bug because of an easter egg, the consequences may be unpredictable due to a code the customer never asked for ...
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With our Software, the Splash Screen shown at the start of the program is replaced with one featuring a "Happy Holidays and a great start to the new year" message throughout december.
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Not all easter eggs are seen by customers. I often hid small images and little tricks that required a certain set of operations to be performed. Thankfully I worked at a company that was relatively good about it.
Some that the public could see:
1) April Fools day - icon would go upside down
2) Halloween - icon would turn into a pumpkin
3) XMAS - like VLC, you see a Santa hat on the icon
4) In one product, double clicking on the About dialog would show a picture of us
5) "Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll" shown in the help file
The best one:
We had a data analysis program that would display "Your calculations are doo-doo" under certain instances when the data set was malformed. One customer called us up about it and I immediately knew who put it in. Thankfully one customer ever saw that but at least he got a good laugh out of it.
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."
-- Marcus Brigstocke, British Comedian
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Maybe, 10 years ago, I would say "Sure, that would be fun". Nowadays, with the rise of cybersecurity awareness and concern, this behavior might raised the eyebrow of the customer. Imagine if you can embed Coded Easter Eggs for fun into a production code, what else can you or did you do to raise hell?
I always wonder, what if the independence QA person found it, how would they report this issue??  
Bryian Tan
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I always try to include some easter eggs.
Last time it was a flash game I had made :P
But only in small projects.. because in big projects.. it can confuse the fellow devs. 
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...but they are **very** well hidden and not for the public. In many cases they contain secret "Developer Modes" to enable some additional settings (like Developer Settings on Android Phones where you tap 10 times the OS Version tag).
These are features like switching the webspace where the app accesses its data - so we can test new content from a dev webspace directly out of the app without having to run a special "developer" version of the app. Some of the customers make their dynamic content for themselves and some power users get a manual, how to activate that mode.
Pure Fun-Eastereggs? Not really - in a game eventually but not in a business app.
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Bryian Tan
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...in the days of 14.4K modems, in a video surveillance app... I put in an Easter Egg that, when typed in the correct code, would display a picture of the myself and the other dev on the project. 
Given that this was B&W data, highly compressed, nobody noticed the extra couple K of the embedded image in the EXE.
Marc
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Can you imagine a goofy Easter egg at a tightly regulated place like a bank?  Hospital software where lives are at stake?  Aeroplane cockit display? 
Cheers,
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Absolutely! Those are the best places!
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/ravi
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After the great Yoda incident, my company put a stop to Easter eggs and Star Wars references.
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one gigantic easter egg omelette.
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...the "etch the code onto chocolate eggs" experiment didn't go well.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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...that we can't afford spending energy on Easter Eggs.
(But we'd love to !)
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I'll just second this post.
It would seem very frivolous in the face of a show stopper bug or two.
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Exactly. It would be awesome, but everyone wants to squeeze a week's worth of work into a day these days. Like we have time to code one.
Jeremy Falcon
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