naming-conventions

This question already has answers here : Closed 7 years ago . Possible Duplicate: Why are dashes preferred for CSS selectors / HTML attributes? Personally I use "lower-case with dashes" to format my HTML classes, which seems to be the standard these days. Using something like camel case seems more reserved for JavaScript in my eyes, but I realise that's just my opinion. I'm trying to improve front-end code consistency at my workplace and part of that will be coding guidelines. Rather than just saying "we should do it this way" I'm keen to hear some valid reasons behind this common trend. So

If I am naming a new class in an OOP language, which is a better convention: XMLWriter Most common XMLwriter Easier to distinguish XmlWriter No longer an acronym XML_Writer Removes the point of camel case Pedantic yes, but I'm curious who uses what and why. david van brink Java conventions seem lately to favor treating well-known acronyms like words, so: "XmlWriter"... http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/ws-tip-namingconv.html Java Naming Convention with Acronyms <-dupe question? http://geosoft.no/development/javastyle.html But nobody seems to be very consistent. Take JavaScript's

I prefer to use long identifiers to keep my code semantically clear, but in the case of repeated references to the same identifier, I'd like for it to "get out of the way" in the current scope. Take this example in Python: def define_many_mappings_1(self): self.define_bidirectional_parameter_mapping("status", "current_status") self.define_bidirectional_parameter_mapping("id", "unique_id") self.define_bidirectional_parameter_mapping("location", "coordinates") #etc... Let's assume that I really want to stick with this long method name, and that these arguments are always going to be hard-coded.

Assume that I have a class that exposes the following event: public event EventHandler Closing How should methods that are registered to this event be named? Do you prefer to follow the convention that Visual Studio uses when it assigns names to the methods it generates (aka. +=, Tab, Tab)? For example: private void TheClass_Closing( object sender, EventArgs e ) Or do you use your own style to name these methods? I've tried different ways to name these methods (like TheClassClosing , HandleClosing , etc.). But I haven't found a good style to indicate that the intent of a method is to handle a

Suppose that I have a database with 1 table named Products . So, I go through the Db First approach and create an EF model in VS 2012 with pluralize and singularize option. So, the model creates a Product entity for me, and default naming convention maps this entity to the dbo.Products table. Now I want to change this behavior. In fact I want to create a custom convention to map ProductModel entity to the dbo.Products table. Is this possible?! If so, how? Update: My goal to do it... As you know, whenever you update your model from database, if it causes a change in your model, the auto

This is a newbie question... I am looking at the default asp.net mvc3 project and noticed that there is a controller called: public class AccountController : Controller I looked throughout the code and couldn't find a place that specified AccountController maps to /Account/ for the URL. I discovered that you can change the routing using routes.MapRoute(..) in the Global.asax , but I still don't know where they specified that AccountController maps to /Account/. If it is assumed from the class name, then does that mean all controller classes have to be named xxxxxController? Yes you are right,