Naming Conventions FTW
When we start projects, we often follow the naming conventions of our frameworks without even thinking about the “Why?” It…
Tag: standards
Bad Assumptions in Development
Quite often when I'm pouring through an old codebase or evaluating a new codebase, I run into a variety of…
Leading vs Following
Something happened at php|tek 2009. Okay, lots of stuff happened. I mean something big happened at php|tek 2009. A group…
The Second Rule of Software Development
Recently, I wrote about The First Rule of Software Development. While it's central tenant is complete and covers the main…
Useful Naming Conventions
In my regular web wanderings recently, I found a great post entitled "The 7 Worst Verbs Programmers Use In Function…
web2project: Databases, Coding Standards, and Modules Oh My!
Getting closer… I still can't announce our official web2project release date, but there are two major things that were just…
A Rose By Any Other Name
Disclaimer: Last year, I spoke at the Better Software Conference, owned by the same group as the Better Software Magazine.…
XML in the Real World
I recently received a survery from Xml.com and thought I'd share some of the information here. As my regular readers…
Markup Markup Everywhere, Not a Drop to Drink
I have to admit that I've been following fellow CodeSniper Ben Bryant's discussion of XML with just a bit of…
Requirements Gathering : Why Context Matters
In the September/October issue of IEEE Software, I came across an article titled “Why Context Matters” which gets to the…