Does your IT shop use program naming conventions?
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I'm curios about what other IT shops do for naming conventions of their applications and components. We have a mix of verbose/descriptive names as well as systematic/abbreviated names. What's the industry trend? Thanks, Jim
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I'm curios about what other IT shops do for naming conventions of their applications and components. We have a mix of verbose/descriptive names as well as systematic/abbreviated names. What's the industry trend? Thanks, Jim
Mostly descriptive here, but then again, my programming group consists of me :) <---signature---> Your kid gets into Duke. You pay the tuition. That tuition goes into my checking account. My money in my checking account goes into beer, porn, and other such fun. Thank you :)
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I'm curios about what other IT shops do for naming conventions of their applications and components. We have a mix of verbose/descriptive names as well as systematic/abbreviated names. What's the industry trend? Thanks, Jim
We only have 8 characters to work with, so it's pretty cryptic.
"The beat goes on.. da-da-dum dadum dum"
BW
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We only have 8 characters to work with, so it's pretty cryptic.
"The beat goes on.. da-da-dum dadum dum"
BW
That's one of the things we're debating right now. All of our VB6 stuff is 8 or less, but ASP files are all over the board. Is the 8 character limit an artificial one or were you forced due to tools or something? Jim
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That's one of the things we're debating right now. All of our VB6 stuff is 8 or less, but ASP files are all over the board. Is the 8 character limit an artificial one or were you forced due to tools or something? Jim
We're forced. I code in Series 1 ASsembler.
"The beat goes on.. da-da-dum dadum dum"
BW
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I'm curios about what other IT shops do for naming conventions of their applications and components. We have a mix of verbose/descriptive names as well as systematic/abbreviated names. What's the industry trend? Thanks, Jim
A project gets an abstract name. My current project is "Rapanui", we use code words so that if we are overheard discussing a project by visitors etc, they do not know what we are talking about, as knowledge of an upgrade or new project and what it is could cause sales of existing products to drop, while they wait for the the new stuff, and the company is unfortunately not stable enough to support this kind of revenue outage. As it nears completion it gets its proper name, whatever that may be, but its not limited to 8 characters (shudder) Roger Allen Sonork 100.10016 Death come early, death come late, It takes us all, there is no reason. For every purpose under heaven, To each a turn, to each a season. A time to weep and a time to sigh, A time to laugh and a time to cry, A time to be born and a time to die. Dust to dust and ashes to ashes, And so I end my song.
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A project gets an abstract name. My current project is "Rapanui", we use code words so that if we are overheard discussing a project by visitors etc, they do not know what we are talking about, as knowledge of an upgrade or new project and what it is could cause sales of existing products to drop, while they wait for the the new stuff, and the company is unfortunately not stable enough to support this kind of revenue outage. As it nears completion it gets its proper name, whatever that may be, but its not limited to 8 characters (shudder) Roger Allen Sonork 100.10016 Death come early, death come late, It takes us all, there is no reason. For every purpose under heaven, To each a turn, to each a season. A time to weep and a time to sigh, A time to laugh and a time to cry, A time to be born and a time to die. Dust to dust and ashes to ashes, And so I end my song.
Roger Allen wrote: My current project is "Rapanui", we use code words so that if we are overheard discussing a project by visitors etc We used to use codewords so that the sales team didn't know what we were working on. Helped to stop them from selling it before it was ready ;-) Michael 'Logic, my dear Zoe, merely enables one to be wrong with authority.' - The Doctor: The Wheel in Space
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I'm curios about what other IT shops do for naming conventions of their applications and components. We have a mix of verbose/descriptive names as well as systematic/abbreviated names. What's the industry trend? Thanks, Jim
It's all about product codenames here. And there's no rhyme or reason to them. I'm almost certain someone just opens a page in the dictionary at random and picks the first word. :wtf: I've been here only 2 months, but I'm still getting lost about products' names: I basically know only the one I'm working on. :-D Sometime during the lifecycle, we actually get marketing names for the products, but everyone (in R&D) still uses the codenames. The kindest thing you can do for a stupid person, and for the gene pool, is to let him expire of his own dumb choices. [Roger Wright on stupid people] We're like private member functions [John Theal on R&D] We're figuring out the parent thing as we go though. Kinda like setting up Linux for the first time ya' know... [Nitron]
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That's one of the things we're debating right now. All of our VB6 stuff is 8 or less, but ASP files are all over the board. Is the 8 character limit an artificial one or were you forced due to tools or something? Jim
we try as verbose as the enviroment let us... in oracle only 30 chars, in VB.NET all we can use... No Matter where you are, there you are
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We only have 8 characters to work with, so it's pretty cryptic.
"The beat goes on.. da-da-dum dadum dum"
BW
You code in FORTRAN, right? :-D
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