Peter continues to look at the value of imposing naming conventions on developers; but this time, he looks at the benefits related to understanding the business problem, as well as why flexibility is ...

Whenever I teach Learning Tree's course on Design Patterns and Best Practices, I begin the class by asking for some examples of best practices. "Naming conventions" comes up every time. It's obviously ...

AI has emerged as a focal point of discourse and, at times, vigorous debate. The underlying concerns are not unfounded. Its infusion into nearly every sphere of work and lifestyle has touched the core ...

New developers can easily become overwhelmed or even confused by the vast number of terms and definitions associated with their profession. In particular, one of the biggest challenges that software ...

The Hackaday community is currently very busy coding the low-level libraries of our open-source offline password keeper project. And when many talented contributors work together on a common concept, ...

The Hackaday community is currently very busy coding the low-level libraries of our open-source offline password keeper project. And when many talented contributors work together on a common concept, ...

I'm parsing through some of Google's C code, and keep running into instance variable names that are prefixed with a lowercase m, some string constants that are prefixed with a lowercase k, and some ...