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This one is for the software developers, do your colleagues a favor by making it easy to remember the names of the fabulous tools you write.

I feel that scripts and software made for internal use should follow the naming convention of ‘nounVerb’. This provides a number of benefits such as people can easily remember the names of your tools, they are easy to find, you can use tab-completion, etc…

Some possible examples for names of tools that work with images:

dpxView
exrView
imgConvert
imgCrop

Here is a re-post of Kevin Cureton’s great article on naming conventions…

Every time that I’ve started working on a production, be it a film or video game, the issue of naming comes up. Nobody likes the way things have been named on previous productions, and yet no one wants to be the person that creates and enforces a naming convention. Can you blame them? It’s never fun to be the person who has to put the figurative “smack down” on a production team to get them to name things correctly.

Naming conventions can have various levels of stringency. The most basic … Continue Reading