Dan Hilton

“Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who know where you live” Damian Conway

• Use spaces not tabs.
• Code goes no further than column 77.
• no-one ever died from too much whitespace.
• Separate operators and braces.
• Indent by four spaces.
• Line up assignments.
• Space keywords not functions.
• vertical rhythm.
• k & R bracketing
• one statement per line
• break lines before operators (except in JS)
• Use single quotes where posssible.
• Always use /x on regexps (removes all whitespace)
• Hungarian code is harmful.
• Short variable names harmful
• Use underscores not camel case.