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Now why would I do that, especially when my blog is syndicated through it?

Simple. I’m always trying to cut back on RSS and other “stuff.” Less is more. But don’t worry — I subscribed again. Only this time, I subscribed to my own filtered version of it! I built it via Yahoo! Pipes. And I made it public, so you can subscribe to it too.

At my previous employer, one of the early decisions that had huge payoffs later was the SQL naming conventions. A good naming convention is more than just a nicety. It lets you write programs that don’t need to be told about the relationships among tables and columns.

There are many ways to do this, I think. But in practice, I think I’ve seen only a few customer systems that have a completely consistent, logical naming convention. And there are levels of convenience; some systems have a couple extra rules that make a big difference.

In this post I’ll explain the components of my ideal naming conventions.

Here’s a productivity tip that has saved me countless work while typing. Swap your Caps-lock and Escape keys. If you’re like most people, you use Caps-lock virtually never, and Escape quite a lot. Especially if you’re a programmer who happens to use the best text editor, Vim. Read on to learn how to do this.