Data modeling / Naming pro tip: Talk to a non technical person and jot down the nouns and adjectives they use when talking about your problem/data domain.
Of all the technical debt you can incur, the worst in my experience is bad names -- for database columns, variables, functions, etc. Fix those IMMEDIATELY before they metastasize all over your codebase and become extremely painful to fix later.. and they always do.
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this is really great advice, I liked it, but I wanted to formally second it as something people should do
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Right now I'm looking at the column "field_location_contrib_address_value" in the table "field_data_field_location_contrib_address".
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Drupal was a mistake that we will all pay for
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just use find and replace we’ll fix it in minutes
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Wtophat could go wrong.
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it's a clbuttic!
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I'm still pissed about this
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Always use single character variable names so that the reader can imagine whatever name they want.
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I found one boolean that said "isChild", which actually showed if a certain record had children (lol). A whole backend was written on top of that, with many hands thinking if the record was a child or if it had children... I'm putting an end to it
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Change it to "isWithChild"
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That's exactly how easy I thought it was going to be :p. Remember that some people made a whole new code based on the assumption that the record was a child of another.
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There are only two hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off by one errors.
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Coming up with great names is hard for me. But, as the program and concept evolves, it gets very clear if a name is fitting or not. I normally change it immediately then, otherwise, the code base becomes obfuscated and incomprehensible.
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Sometimes a name is good when it is first written, but as the program and concept evolves, the name no longer fits, and needs to change.
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Yeah, that surely happens a lot. I do find DB name changes quite the most error-prone ones, and I see that I am most resisting in changing those. And package names.
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I'm still trying to figure out how to painlessly rename a DB column or table.
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