Part I. Programming Guidelines

Table of Contents

1. General Guidelines

1. Key points to remember

2. Trailing whitespace

3. Best Practices: Functions

4. Perl Style

2. Working with the Sources

3. Team Player Guidelines

1. Be a good camper

2. Nearby Code

3. Return early when possible

4. Security

5. Database

6. Performance & Scalability

7. Coding Specifics

1. Accessor names

2. if, unless, else

3. Ternary Operator

8. Patches

9. Focus on the broad picture

1. Don't hard-code URLs in translation strings

2. Deleting and changing translation strings

3. Be smart to site schemes

10. Internationalization

1. Removing hard-coded English text

2. The /translate/ system - English-stripping