“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Katrin Ribant, co-founder and chief ...

The most visible indication of a folder's contents is its name. To clearly delineate folders containing restricted data, the following naming conventions are required. Only folder names need to follow ...

It has been said that there are only two difficult tasks in modern software development: distributed cache invalidation and how to name stuff. The following variable naming conventions won't assist ...

Our VMware datastore naming convention is a bit of a mess (it grew organically). Some datastores are named based on department, while others have more generic descriptions that describe the purpose of ...

Whenever I teach Learning Tree's course on Design Patterns and Best Practices, I begin the class by asking for some examples of best practices. "Naming conventions" comes up every time. It's obviously ...

Throughout the Purdue Data Warehouse Student project, you may have heard various names for the warehouse. Terms like PSDW, PDW Student, and Boiler Insight have been used interchangeably, leading to ...

IBM Cognos Analytics is advancing to deliver governed, real-time analytics by embedding role-based access controls, audit trails, and standardized reporting into its workflows. Drawing on best ...

On one of my favorite lists we just had an amusing discussion about naming computers. It seems that unless someone is running a server farm or hosting facility where logical organization is de rigeur ...