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Our application has a lot of references to a list of i.e. Soccer matches. These soccer matches are 90% of the time sorted (at Date), in some contexts not. The problem is that it’s often quite important to know if it’s sorted or not. With the consequences of accidentally using an unsorted list causing bugsRead more

What is a good naming convention for date variables or properties in an Object-based, strongly typed language like C# (and by extension, for date database columns)? Do you use the word “date”? I’m going to avoid an example with the canonical “created” or “updated” date/time properties, and instead pick another common example: assuming there isRead more

I have 4 entities: Event, Message, Flow and Document. Event table stores a limited (seeded) number of records. Message has many events and each event can be related to many messages. The name event_message was given for the intermediate table. As you can see, the convention for intermediate tables are: {tablename}_{tablename}. Flow table stores aRead more

Why there is common coding convention in PHP. Just like python has pep8 .Some frameworks prefers camelcase but wordpress uses underscore while naming functions and variables which is actually preferred.Read more

I’m trying to figure out how to implement accessors for smart pointers in C++. I’ve used smart pointers in other languages before, but in C++ the implementation is much more verbose. When implementing a getter for a weak_ptr, should I just return the weak_ptr or a shared_ptr instead? One might argue that whether a classRead more

I want to create a project that adds registry keys and values necessary for debugging. It may also copy files. What’s a good name for this kind of project, a name that distinguishes it from projects that create binaries?Read more