At the risk of becoming the village idiot, can someone explain to me why generics are called generics? I understand their usage and benefits, but if the definition of generic is "general" and generic collections are type safe, then why isn't this a misnomer? For example, an ArrayList can hold anything that's an object: ArrayList myObj...
I can only think of Peek() and ReadNoAdvance() atm, but I wonder if there are better or standard options. Thanks. ...
I'm currently developing a PHP application that's using an Access database as a backend. Not by choice you understand... the database is what the client used originally and using it is part of the requirements. One of the problems with this database is that the column names have the most insane naming convention you could possibly imagin...
We are deciding the naming convention for tables, columns, procedures, etc. at our development team at work. The singular-plural table naming has already been decided, we are using singular. We are discussing wether to use a prefix for each table name or not. I would like to read suggestions about using a prefix or not, and why. Does i...
If I've got a variable that contains the fully-qualified name of a file (for example, a project file), should it be called projectFile, projectFileName or projectPath? Or something else? ...
I recently started these naming conventions.. all functions & variables = camelCase constants with define() = ALL_CAPS_AND_UNDERSCORES Now I see a lot of other people mix up camelCase and underscores and they seem to have some sort of convention to it... What do you use and what is best? I've heard that public and private functions sh...
Convention has it that table names should be the singular of the entity that they store attributes of. I dislike any T-SQL that requires square brackets around names, but I have renamed a Users table to the singular, forever sentencing those using the table to sometimes have to use brackets. My gut feel is that it is more correct t...
A question mainly for web developers. When you develop web applications and add an admin area to it, how do you name it? Leaving it 'admin' is a bit out of fashion and insecure. Mind sharing any other nouns, verbs, adjectives or whatnot, that holds the title of any websites you know/can think of. ...
Most C++ naming conventions dictate the use of camelCaseIdentifiers: names that start with an uppercase letter for classes (Person, Booking) and names that start with a lowercase letter for fields and variables (getPrice(), isValid(), largestValue). These recommendations are completely at odds with the naming conventions of the C++ libr...
Do you write createSomething() or addSomething()? Do you write readSomething(), getSomething() or fetchSomething()? This is totally a petty gripe. In the meeting room we refer to it as CRUD, but in actual code, it's becoming AGUD. What's your naming convention of preference? Does it matter? thnx. ...
I am quite confused by looking at the boost library, and stl, and then looking at people's examples. It seems that capitalized type names are interspersed with all lowercase, separated by underscores. What exactly is the way things should be done these days? I know the .NET world has their own set of conventions, but it appears to be co...
I have read a lot of popular standards manuals for open source PHP projects. A lot enforce underscores for variables spaces, and a lot enforce camelCase. Should global functions and variables be named differently to class methods/properties? I know the most important thing is consistency, but I'd like to hear some thoughts on this. W...
Address records are probably used in most database, but I've seen a number of slightly different sets of fields used to store them. The number of fields seems to vary from 3-7, and sometimes all fields are simple labelled address1..addressN, other times given specific meaning (town, city, etc). This is UK specific, though I'm open to co...
Is there any reason for the use of 'T' in generics? Is it some kind of abbreviation? As far as I know, everything works. For example public G Say<G>(){ ... } or even public Hello Say<Hello>(){ ... } ...
What do you use to denote a member variable in a class? The most common time this is a problem is when you have a parameter passed into a constructor to set a member variable. Here is an example: public MyClass(string name) { name = name; // arghh!! } I've used m_name before, but that stinks of Hungarian. I've used _name before...
As a beginner/intermediate developer one problem I run into as my projects get bigger and more abstracted away as i use more OOP principles I have a problem with naming things. Like when i have multiple projects or class libraries I don't know what to name them. I see things from xxx.Core to xxx.Main or have even seen xxx.BLL and xxx.D...
Background In a C# command-line app I'm writing, several of the parameters have "yes" and "no" as the possible values. I am storing their input using the Enum type shown below. enum YesNo { Yes, No } Which is fine - the code works. No problem there. NOTE: Yes, I could store these as bool (that's how it used to work). My ...
What is the preferred naming convention for Django model classes? ...
I am building a CMS and the naming convention for classes has been debated between the other developer involved and myself. The problem arises specifically with "Page", as it is a public class available in a typical library. A natural response would be to call it MVCMSPage (where MVCMS is the to-be name of the cms) or to rely on referen...
When I'm naming array-type variables, I often am confronted with a dilema: Do I name my array plurally or singularly? For example, let's say I have an array of names: In PHP I would say: $names=array("Alice","Bobby","Charles"); However, then lets say I want to reference a name in this array. For Bobby, I'd say: $names[1]. However, th...