I was writing my update to my Perl uploader project for today when it dawned on me that my writing syntax has evolved. I saw that in place of the usual -- I began to use almost a year ago has been replaced by // which isn’t just present in my Tweets and blog posts, but also my SMS’. Also looking at my old (PHP) code I’ve noticed that my variable names have progressively gotten shorter; for example, in my first (fully functional) PHP project, a simple URL shortener, a typical variable had a name like
$urls_database_connection_handler
, whereas in my latest incarnation of it (it’s somewhat integrated into the Uploader), it’s simply
$qh_urls
(for query handle for urls database). Two factors are at play: 1) The names are now much shorter and 2) I’m using caps instead of underscores to delimit words for my readability (it makes me think of Obj-C best practices, but I don’t know). Just a thought.