Closed. This question is opinion-based. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it can be answered with facts and citations by editing this post. Closed 8 years ago. Improve this question Quick question: I’d like to hear your thoughts on when to use “State” versus “Status” when … Read more
Here’s how I do it: Table names are lower case, uses underscores to separate words, and are singular (e.g. foo, foo_bar, etc. I generally (not always) have a auto increment PK. I use the following convention: tablename_id (e.g. foo_id, foo_bar_id, etc.). When a table contains a column that is a foreign key, I just copy … Read more
From using a number of programming languages and libraries I have noticed various terms used for the total number of elements in a collection. The most common seem to be length, count, and size. eg. array.length vector.size() collection.count Is there any preferred term to be used? Does it depend on what type of collection it … Read more
We were discussing with our coworkers on what it means if the method name starts with “Try”. There were the following opinions: Use “Try” when the method can return a null value. Use “Try” when the method will not throw an exception. What is the official definition? What does “Try” say in the method name? … Read more
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Eg. boolean isCurrent = false; What do you name its getter and setter? 10 Answers 10
Closed. This question is opinion-based. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it can be answered with facts and citations by editing this post. Closed 3 years ago. Improve this question When creating REST APIs, are there any guidelines or defacto standards for naming conventions within the … Read more
Closed. This question is opinion-based. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it can be answered with facts and citations by editing this post. Closed 6 years ago. The community reviewed whether to reopen this question 4 months ago and left it closed: Original close reason(s) were … Read more