You gotta see this article:

http://blog.codinghorror.com/new-programming-jargon/

The keyword I was looking for in my shorthand post was "refuctoring".

It could be that I am just a "Jimmy"

I kinda like the "Smurf Naming Convention" though. haha.

My personal project right now is a world conquest game that has various source files for rendering the globe. The internal name of the project (i.e. the one I use in code, not the one it will release under) is Globo.

I think of that Smurf Naming thing every time I type: #include "Globe/Globo_Globe.h"

Nice article, i personally hate with passion the "Yoda Conditions".

ex: if(5 == count)

"Heisenbug"

yeah, those are annoying...

like, bug which is annoyingly hard to recreate and occurs rarely, may appear only when not run in a debugger, or when the code is stopped/single-stepped there is no evidence of the bug's existence... (ex: program runs with a bug, set a break-point, single-step, and everything works as intended...).

may sometimes be due to "spooky action at a distance", like (off somewhere in some distant part of the program) instead of writing "foo[x*y+z]=...;" one wrote "foo[x*y*z]=...;" which may otherwise go largely unnoticed if it fails to land on an unused memory address (may be very common for programs where most of the address space is in-use).

may be also be called "dude, where's my RAM?" if it also results in an intermittent memory leak.

I have to admit, the Egyptian brackets do annoy me. But then, lower-cased first letters of functions names annoyed me, but now I prefer it that way. So did underscores in variable names.

function EgyptianizeTheBracket(){
    looks missing;
}

function UnEgyptianizeTheBracket()
     { for short lines;}

function UnEgyptianizeTheBracket()
     {
     for longer lines;
     }

Good point Zaoshi. I just think that having them on the next line shows the start and end of the code inside the function. Along with indentation it just looks neater.

I love egyptian brackets but not everywhere, i think they are most fitted for ifs and while/for loops. Function and switch should use normal brackets style.

void Function()
{
    if(x == 1){

    }

    for(;;){

    }

    switch(x)
    {
    case 0: ...
    }
}