Articles tagged ‘naming’
Name things unambiguously
avoiding bad choices when naming related items • 2024-11-19
Jargon-centric naming
Restricting names to controlled vocabularies • 2021-11-30
Apologetic error messages
Following through on a naming idea by @huizendveld • 2021-06-15
Single-letter names - a cautionary tale
Phillip Relf’s story of two lazy array index names • 2017-01-10
What science says about naming
Computer science papers about naming (co-written with Felienne Hermans) • 2016-12-26
How to get better at naming things
10 steps to mastering names in code • 2016-11-20
Naming smells
Code smells that indicate bad names so you can avoid using them • 2016-10-31
Why naming things is hard
The hardest thing in programming and the great naming myth • 2016-10-22
AdorableJS
why JavaScript frameworks live short but happy lives • 2015-02-12
Fear of renaming
Why renaming is harder than naming • 2014-09-17
Meaningless variable names
Naming things without actually choosing a name • 2014-09-04