Conclusion

Conclusion

Whether you use the naming convention proposed here or create your own, use a naming convention consistently across all your applications and over time. It will make your code self-documenting and easy to follow. Code the separate logical tiers of your application as independent entities. This will prevent changes in one logical tier from forcing you to rebuild much of your application. Comment your code liberally at all levels. When trying to understand the purpose of a section of code, it's a lot easier if that purpose is explained by a code comment than if you have to figure it out yourself. Following these and all the other best practices presented in this chapter will result in robust, understandable and maintainable applications.