Gunnar Peipman's ASP.NET blog

Well, this post is not my attempt to start millionth flae war about variable naming conventions. It is my explanation how I use Hungarian notation and why. By the way I am not dedicated fan of any convention, so starting flaming here has no point. So let's see why and how I use Hungarian notation.

Keyword var is cool thing we can use to make our code more readable for other programmers and why not - reviewers. But var can also be used to make our code difficult to understand. In this case, lte's say, we are overusing var. So, var is like wine - if one takes glass of it then everything is okay in the morning, but if somebody takes it couple of bottles then the morning will be awful. Or let's say - too much var will kill you?

It is easy to find articles and blog entries about patterns, design and good practices. But there are not so much information about anti-patterns. One of the worst anti-patterns is what I call I-Don't-Care Anti-Pattern.

I discovered once myself automatically writing redirects like this:

Couple of days ago I had 70-542 Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 - Application Development exam. It wasn't one of easiest exams I have ever had but now it is done and I am certified SharePoint developer. :)

I had to write one data import/export utility that moved data from one database to another. Once I was finished the first round of coding I found one thing that needed refactoring - the import/export process wasn't generalized. It was part of importer/exporter utility main class (it was console application). After some refactoring I got some common things to use in other tasks like this.

Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug is the definitive guide to user friendly web pages. This book doesn't tell you about how to make HTML pages or how to design them. This book tells you what to keep in mind when dealing with web pages and how to make your web pages user friendly.