Coding standards: What are they and why should you use them?  by
James Polanco  Over the last few years, front-end web
development has grown from a semi-straightforward approach (that
is, individual HTML pages sprinkled with Flash and JavaScript)
to a much more complex application-based design (that is, Ajax,
Flex, and Adobe AIR applications). The level of complexity is
similar to what desktop software developers have been dealing
with for years. Yet with this complexity, many front-end
developers still look at web development as it was in the old
days and often do not take the time (or don't know how) to
implement coding standards within their applications.  In this
article, I explain what coding standards are and why you should
use them, while providing some real-world examples. I hope to
initiate a conversation in the community to try to create a more
unified approach to how we code in general. This article is
somewhat Flex-centric because that's the technology I work with,
but these standards can be adopt