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[YYYY].[MM].[DD].[hh][mm] vs. [major].[minor].[revision] [duplicate]
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What “version naming convention” do you use?
I am currently debating between the traditional versioning convention [major].[minor].[revision] and my own, ...
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Why do trees grow downward?
Why do trees grow downward in computer science?
I have a feeling it goes back to a printer, and that a program traversing a tree first prints the root, and uses the notion of a bottomless stack of ...
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Is it better to use assert or IllegalArgumentException for required method parameters?
In Java, which is more highly recommended, and why? Both types will throw exceptions, so in that regard handling them is the same. assert is slightly shorter, but I'm not sure how much that matters.
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Javascript naming conventions
I am from Java background and am new to JavaScript. I have noticed many JavaScript methods using single character parameter names, such as in the following example.
doSomething(a,b,c)
I don't like ...
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Should I use title case in URLs?
We are currently deciding on a consistent naming convention across a site with multiple web applications. Historically, I've been an advocate of the 'lowercase all the letters!' when creating URLs:
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Should the most recent date be named 'start' or 'end'?
So I have a function that takes two dates. The SQL query gets all the results between the two dates. I currently have my function setup as such:
function myFunc(start, end)
Where start is the ...
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Naming classes, methods, functions and variables
There are 3 important naming conventions:
with_underscores
PascalCased
camelCased
Other variants are not important because they are not commonly used.
For variables it seems that the one with ...
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When calculating how many days between 2 dates, should you include both dates in the count, or neither, or 1?
I am trying to make an algorithm that counts the days between two dates, e.g. between 3/1/2012 and 3/2/2012.
What is the correct answer, or the most popular choice? Should be the one I use?
In ...
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Is there an established convention for separating Windows file names in a string?
I have a function which needs to output a string containing a list of file paths. I can choose the separation character but I cannot change the data type (e.g. I cannot return a List<string> or ...
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Assignments in mock return values
(I will show examples using php and phpunit but this may be applied to any programming language)
The case: let's say we have a method A::foo that delegates some work to class M and returns the value ...
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Should I care about Junit redundancy when using setUp() with @Before annotation?
Even though developers have switched from junit 3.x to 4.x I still see the
following 99% of the time:
@Before
public void setUp(){/*some setup code*/}
@After
public void tearDown(){/*some clean up ...
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conventions for friend methods in Perl
Perl doesn't support a friend relationship between objects, nor does it support private or protected methods. What is usually done for private methods is to prefix the name with an underscore. I ...
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CamelCase issue (PList or Plist)
Ok, I understand what CamelCase is. This question is relating to how to CamelCase the shortened version of Property List (PList). I am asking this because I am working on a PList parser in C# and ...
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External file (images, sounds) naming convention at Xcode
What is better naming conventions at Xcode regardng External File
(images, sounds) etc?
Is there any guideline from vendor Apple?
As we store our projects at SVN, is there any complicity from Hosted
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Convention on model names in ruby on rails
I was doing my ER diagram for a rails application I'm about to begin with and there I have an entity called Class News so I'd have a model ClassNew but I don't know if I will have problems in the ...
