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 ...

Over the years, software engineers have selected terminology to describe the coding world they created. Unfortunately, unconscious biases seeped into the process and problematic descriptors have ...

Our VMware datastore naming convention is a bit of a mess (it grew organically). Some datastores are named based on department, while others have more generic descriptions that describe the purpose of ...

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Those of us who are responsible for groups of production computers, whether client or server class, are familiar with the conundrum of having to adopt some logical and appropriate naming system for ...

For many organizations, email is a crucial part of the internal and external communication process. Email naming conventions help an organization manage their email accounts and ensure a standard ...

When did humans begin to assign names to each other? It’s a question that has occupied researchers for decades. What is clear, however, is how important consistent naming is in helping us to make ...