I'm fine with being called a coder, but probably only because I'm not given much opportunity to do it these days.

Yes, I prefer "code ninja".

when I see those "code ninja needed", posts, it just makes me laugh. Juvenile at best, idiotic at worse. It is hard to take those companies that do that seriously.

Tell me, what does a code ninja do? Write fast and crappy code, and disapear, so some other poor soul have to maintain it? Crash the whole server with two lines of recurisve calls? Check-in code so stealthy that Subversion doesn't even detect it?

Ps. I noticed the "code ninja" trend, with the raise of Ruby on Rail. It is everytime I have seen, it has been a posting for either Ruby, or Php job.

Well...I'm a code pirate. So there.

And I'm fine being called a coder, it doesn't really matter what we're called right? Its more about what we do ;)

It's an attempt by companies to have their job postings stand out. Similar to looking for a "rockstar programmer".

As far as I can tell, they assassinate bugs before users even realize they're there.

FWIW I'm one that doesn't care either way.

I don't mind being called a coder, but then I don't mind being called an information plumber either.

Thanks for the correction, I'll remember that.