Questions tagged [standardization]
The process of altering or creating code to an agreed standard or the process of establishing that standard.
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How to design a region table for localization standardizations with multiple criteria
I am designing a database for localization standardizations.
It contains Languages, Regions, Cultures, etc.
For the region, I have a hierarchical structure that contains a name and a parent which is a ...
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Why exactly was the C++ convenience of not requiring a second declaration, removed?
See "Note" on second page:
This convenience gave rise to serious inconsistencies and was removed several years ago
The book was authored in 2003.
What exactly does it mean by "Serious ...
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Why do so many standards for JSON API response formats contain a "success" property in the response body instead of just using HTTP status codes?
I was researching about best practices for standardised JSON response formats for APIs, according to various sources available online general consensus looks something like this:
//Successful request:...
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Why follow standards of a voluntary organization?
I'm struggling to understand how, for example, the IETF is a "standards organization" but the standards are "voluntary" meaning there is no civil or criminal penalties for not ...
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Is a good practice using form tag's atributes in HTML?
Checkout this HTML using the attribute action, method and target from <form></form> tag:
<form action="/action_page.php" method="get" target="_blank">
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Document containing relevant data in meta-data
I find myself working with documents that need to be displayed to a user and at the same time, I need the information that they bear.
For example, you have a generated PDF document (or other "...
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Coding standard for clarity: comment every line of code?
I've worked in shops that produce life critical software and I've dealt with commenting rules that were meant to keep the code readable and potentially save lives. In my experience though the ...
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How did the gets function ever make into the standard? [closed]
We all know the dangers of gets.
It is also on the way out in C11.
That makes me wonder: how did it ever get into the standard to begin with? Weren't the problems with it obvious at the time of ...
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What's the use of lint warnings vs errors? [closed]
I'm hoping someone who's given this some thought can help me understand. Most style-checking tools seem to distinguish between warnings and errors.
To me, the point of a lint error is that a style ...
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Is Open Data Protocol (odata) Being Widely Embraced by the Development Community? [closed]
EDIT: In case you aren't familiar with OData, here you go.
I am trying to determine whether it is worth learning this technology or if it is something that is not going to catch on.
The premise is ...
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Is it poor practice to return different data types from alternative Web API endpoints?
Consider a Web API with an endpoint api\LargeItem
A LargeItem is a pretty big object with lots of properties and long strings.
A user can GET any one like so api\LargeItem\1 which returns the ...
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License that encourages improvements to the original version rather than own forks? [closed]
I'm looking for a license that should encourage changes to my original open source rather than encouraging forks and uncontrolled random redistribution. This is because of the nature of the code; it's ...
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Different operators in query string like ?var!=value
This one may actually be 2 questions in one.
Studying some APIs I came across an api suggesting to have operand different from equal (=) inside the query string (http://www.salesboard.com/api/):
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Is there a 'standard' SQL that can replace all the various custom versions?
I have been writing SQL for over 10 years now. I am extremely proficient at it and have experience working in SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc. While there are multiple standards out there, ...
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How comes the C++ standards committee introduces a keyword like nullptr and gets away with it? [closed]
That must have broken a lot of peoples code bases right?
Everyone who had a variable named "nullptr" (which I think would have been fairly common) has to find "nullptr" and replace with "...
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