This is technically a continuation of a conversation I had with eXceLon over the weekend, but I was curious what types of naming conventions everyone uses on their day-to-day files, either at work or ...

Productivity guru Merlin Mann has an interesting post over at 43 Folders regarding file naming conventions best practices. Mann posts a detailed system used by a video crew for naming their files to ...

Currently there is no across-the-board standard when it comes to naming product image files. This makes it incredibly difficult to determine at a glance what product your images relate to. Coming up ...

Please note: This item is from our archives and was published in 2018. It is provided for historical reference. The content may be out of date and links may no longer function. Q. Can you recommend a ...

Can you envisage a day when any form of filename is a thing of the past? I was saving a file on my PC a few minutes ago and — while deciding on a name — I paused for a moment’s contemplation. I know ...

Google docs. Calendar entries. Email subjects. Someone make it stop with the generic names. Like “meeting minutes” for a gdoc. Or “meet Maha” (on my own calendar, invitation sent by someone else who ...

Peter continues to look at the value of imposing naming conventions on developers; but this time, he looks at the benefits related to understanding the business problem, as well as why flexibility is ...

Extracting files from archives isn't difficult, but it can be tedious, especially with all the archive naming conventions in use today. But you can make the task a little easier by putting everything ...