Top "Naming" questions

A general purpose tag to cover anything concerning naming, be it files, programming constructs, data etc.

Why people don't use uppercase in the name of header files in C++?

I was wondering why people don't use uppercase in name of header files. I see many header files with name …

c++ header naming lowercase
What are Best Practices for Maven Modules Naming?

Assuming that we have a project named project and modules module1 and module2, earlier I tend to use the following …

maven-2 naming convention
Naming Generic DataContracts in WCF

I am using a Generic Class as a Response Data Contract. All is good and this is streamlining the design …

wcf dynamic naming datacontract
What are reserved filenames for various platforms?

I'm not asking about general syntactic rules for file names. I mean gotchas that jump out of nowhere and bite …

filesystems naming
.NET Testing Naming Conventions

What are the best conventions of naming testing-assemblies in .NET (or any other language or platform)? What I'm mainly split …

.net unit-testing testing naming conventions
Automatically apprend or prepend names of files uploaded with date or random number in SharePoint

I have somehow turned into the person to oversee my organization's SharePoint and I have been tasked with finding a …

file sharepoint naming uploading
(Spring MVC / Jackson) Mapping query parameters to @ModelAttribute: LOWERCASE_WITH_UNDERSCORE to SNAKE_CASE fails

@GetMapping("item") public @ResponseBody String get(@ModelAttribute Item item) Item has the attributes name itemType When I access /item?name=…

spring spring-mvc spring-boot jackson naming
Is the XML declaration node mandatory?

I had a discussion with a colleague of mine about the XML declaration node (I'm talking about this => <?…

xml naming
Can a DAO call DAO?

I have component which needs to update the database for the customer and customer address (via JDBC). Is it appropriate …

dao naming
Azure blob storage - auto generate unique blob name

I am writing a small web application for Windows Azure, which should use the blob storage for, obviously, storing blobs. …

azure naming azure-storage-blobs auto-generate