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Answer: Naming convention for computers #programming #fix #it

Naming convention for computers

Possible Duplicate: Naming convention for PC in a network

What naming convention your organization uses for identifying computers within the organization. These are internal for the developers’ desktops, server, etc. We are about to buy many new desktops and laptops. A few schemes I can think of –

companyNamePrefix#### : like so02, so03)

city names

location…

Solution: Are Cisco admins expected to understand classful networks? #fix #dev #it

Are Cisco admins expected to understand classful networks?

While studying for the CCENT exam, my reference materials have made an alarming number of references to class A/B/C networks. Thankfully they just treat Class A/B/C as shorthand for /8, /16, and /24 CIDR subnets, and don’t make any mention of an implicit subnet from the first nibble. Still, it throws me off to have “Class B” pop up in a…

How to: Naming Conventions #solution #it #fix

Naming Conventions

Possible Duplicate: What are the most manageable and interesting server naming schemes being used?

How do you decide on a new hostname?

Answer [by Kevin Colby]: Naming Conventions

For servers, I like the standard currently used at my office <3 letter location code>-<2 digit incrementing number to avoid duplicate names>

An example would be: PHOU-DMOSQL01

Physical

Houstonm

Demo…

Fixed: Naming Conventions #dev #solution #fix

Naming Conventions

Possible Duplicate: What are the most manageable and interesting server naming schemes being used?

How do you decide on a new hostname?

Answer [by Kevin Colby]: Naming Conventions

For servers, I like the standard currently used at my office <3 letter location code>-<2 digit incrementing number to avoid duplicate names>

An example would be: PHOU-DMOSQL01

Physical

Houstonm

Demo…

Resolved: Unit test naming best practices #solution #development #computers

Unit test naming best practices

What are the best practices for naming unit test classes and test methods?

This was discussed on SO before, at What are some popular naming conventions for Unit Tests?

I don’t know if this is a very good approach, but currently in my testing projects, I have one-to-one mappings between each production class and a test class, e.g. Product and ProductTest.

In my…

Answer: C# naming convention for constants? #it #programming #solution

C# naming convention for constants?

private const int THE_ANSWER = 42;

or

private const int theAnswer = 42;

Personally I think with modern IDEs we should go with camelCase as ALL_CAPS smells “Hungarian”. What do you think?

Answer [by dove]: C# naming convention for constants?

Leave Hungarian to the Hungarians.

In the example I’d even leave out the definitive article and just go with

private…

Fix: Interface naming in Java #computers #development #programming

Interface naming in Java

Most OO languages prefix their interface names with a capital I, why does Java not do this? What was the rationale for not following this convention?

To demonstrate what I mean, if I wanted to have a User interface and a User implementation I’d have two choices in Java:

Class = User, Interface = UserInterface

Class = UserImpl, Interface = User

Where in most languages:

How to: What is the naming convention in Python for variable and function names? #dev #it #solution

What is the naming convention in Python for variable and function names?

Coming from a C# background the naming convention for variables and method names are usually either CamelCase or Pascal Case:

// C# example string thisIsMyVariable = "a" public void ThisIsMyMethod()

In Python, I have seen the above but I have also seen underscores being used:

# python example this_is_my_variable = 'a' def…