It is legend that programmers run on coffee so what better as a festive gift than a new mug with an appropriate slogan? You could boost your favourite programmer's performance by encouraging increased coffee consumption.

Disclosure: I Programmer gets a very small reward if you make a purchase after using the links in this article.This has in no way affected our choice - there are just far too many to pick from!

The first mug declares the relationship between coffee and code, click on the image for its details:

I've never been sure about the connection with pizza though. I'm  morea sort of fine dining person - yes, even when I'm programming.

Not every programmer survives on coffee amd in fact there's more caffine in tea! If tea is your tipple a white ceramic mug is just what you need and this one has a message that suggest the need for tea is quite urgent!

What activity is it that most calls for a hot drink? In my case it's debugging my own code. I like the definition here - I'm not so sure about the visualization - although it does suggest a maze with lots of dead ends.

The next mug might be considered sarcastic but I think it's more what the world might think than what we actually do. When I use the word algorithm I mean a way of getting things done:

This is a generous 15oz mug rather than the standard 11oz which is also available.

Now we have a mug that is so deep to be almost Zen-like. Don't read it and conclude it just means that the drinker is stuck with some difficult reverse engineering. LIFE would be much easier if we had the source code. Again the 15oz version is depicted.

A classic of calmness and determination and that's a description of the very best programmer qualities you can't do better than:

Filled with hot chocolate and marshmallows - now that's festive.

How often has you coffee gone cold while you are deep in coding or debugging. Perhaps this stainless steel insulated tumbler is the answer:

Now for my final choice. Final you ask, what about the other 992? The answer is on the mug:

Click on image for details

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