Whenever I teach Learning Tree's course on Design Patterns and Best Practices, I begin the class by asking for some examples of best practices. "Naming conventions" comes up every time. It's obviously ...

Over the years, software engineers have selected terminology to describe the coding world they created. Unfortunately, unconscious biases seeped into the process and problematic descriptors have ...

Those of us who are responsible for groups of production computers, whether client or server class, are familiar with the conundrum of having to adopt some logical and appropriate naming system for ...

Our VMware datastore naming convention is a bit of a mess (it grew organically). Some datastores are named based on department, while others have more generic descriptions that describe the purpose of ...

Organizing Hyper-V hosts into well-structured groups and using consistent naming conventions in System Center Virtual Machine Manager is key to maintaining scalable and manageable infrastructure.

Peter continues to look at the value of imposing naming conventions on developers; but this time, he looks at the benefits related to understanding the business problem, as well as why flexibility is ...