Do you have any good advice/links to a set of coding standards or best practices to follow?

Question

For those of us that have programmed enough I’m sure we have come across many different flavours of coding standards that you can use when it comes to programming.

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Answer 1

For Java and other C-family languages I recommend Sofware Monkey's coding standards (of course, since they're mine).

In general, keep them simple, and provide examples and justification for every requirement.