December 2014 Entries

Naming Things is Hard: Method-Naming Patterns

Some of the method-naming patterns I've come across / developed / adopted.

Posted On Wednesday, December 31, 2014 9:00 AM | Comments (0)

Naming Things is Hard: Dictionaries

I've been working with a codebase recently which makes a lot of use of dictionaries - here's a few words about naming them.

Posted On Tuesday, December 30, 2014 8:54 AM | Comments (0)

Naming Things is Hard: Finding the Right Level of Abstraction

It is said and experience has confirmed - in programming, naming things is hard. So hard it's common for programmers with years and years (and years) of experience to regularly name things poorly. Here's some of the processes I use to name variables and types, focusing on finding the right level of abstraction.

Posted On Sunday, December 28, 2014 2:04 PM | Comments (0)