Showing posts with label pedantry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pedantry. Show all posts

Thursday, August 21, 2008

On Coding Style

camelCasing or
Hungarian Notation -
many style options.

Merits and bitches
abound regarding each type:
endless pedantry.

The bottom line, though:
Lisas don't care, but for the
Love-- be consistent!

There were 4 methods in the class. One took a variable called eventid, one with a variable called EventId, one with a variable called eventID, and one with a variable called str_EventID.

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

On coding screw-ups

Hear Ye, Dumbass Dev:
Regular Expressions should
not be abused! Bad!!

Way to go, buddy, you totally screwed over the mobile application’s ability to scan Item Barcodes. That was clever. In the future please do not use completely broken regular expressions; I don’t care if Java can sort them out and make sense of them - .Net can’t. Pedantry is your friend in this particular situation.