Appion

h1. Code Standards

If everyone uses the same coding style, it is much easier to read code that someone else wrote. That said, style is not important enough to enforce during a code review. It is much more important to ensure that best practices are followed such as implementing error handling .

h2. Python

"Python Style Guide":http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/

[[Python Coding Standards]]

h2. PHP

This one is a bit old, but lots of good stuff that goes beyond style. Some things are questionable. I prefer Getters/Setters over Attributes as Objects (at least how the example shows it) to allow for better error handling. I prefer no underscores in naming except for constants that use all caps...but that is only a style issue.

"PHP Coding Standard":http://www.dagbladet.no/development/phpcodingstandard/

From the Zend framework folks:

http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/coding-standard.html

An intro:

http://godbit.com/article/introduction-to-php-coding-standards

Nice Presentation:

http://weierophinney.net/matthew/uploads/php_development_best_practices.pdf

PHP Unit testing

http://www.phpunit.de/pocket_guide/

For automatically checking code against the Pear standards use CodeSniffer:

http://pear.php.net/package/PHP_CodeSniffer/

h2. Any Language

"DRY principle":http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?DontRepeatYourself : Don't Repeat Yourself

"Joomla guide":http://developer.joomla.org/strategy.html