Node Naming Conventions
The convention is that node names should be short. Otherwise they follow the file naming conventions vis. no special characters and no spaces. Capital letters should only be used if the name is initials. To ensure that node names are short you may need to invent initialised names. These should be spelt out in the node contents.
Perl Coding Conventions
There are a few utilities on the site which sort of expect reasonable coding practice, specifically that the first comment line containing alpha characters (after the #! line) is the title. Best put one in or the scripts won't work.On the issue of braces I invoke the authority of Larry Wall and claim that wherever possible braces should occupy a separate line.
Database Naming Issues
Database names, table names and field names should be lowercase.
Database field names should use underscores instead of spaces.
All tables should have a sequential numeric key called id.
References to the id field in another table should be called [table]_key.
Java naming conventions
Variables using the postfix name should be of type string.
If you have defined a set of numeric values for strings then these should be called _type or _code (not name).
If you are refering to a table id field then use postfix _key
Document Dated: Wed Sep 29 15:26:21 1999 by TimP
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