About 10 years ago, I was part of the large team in Redmond working on the set of projects which became “.net”. This was during the time the decisions were being made about what to name this work. I can tell you from first-hand experience that “.net” is not an acroynm. Instead, the James Kovacs … Read more
It’s an identification number that will uniquely identify something. The idea being that id number will be universally unique. Thus, no two things should have the same uuid. In fact, if you were to generate 10 trillion uuids, there would be something along the lines of a .00000006 chance of two uuids being the same.
There are legitimate criticisms of the Microsoft advice from the accepted answer. Inconsistent treatment of acronyms/initialisms depending on number of characters: playerID vs playerId vs playerIdentifier. The question of whether two-letter acronyms should still be capitalized if they appear at the start of the identifier: USTaxes vs usTaxes Difficulty in distinguishing multiple acronyms: i.e. USID … Read more
It stands indeed for whatever, as in whatever works for you per Igor Minar from 2012 (emphasis mine): MVC vs MVVM vs MVP. What a controversial topic that many developers can spend hours and hours debating and arguing about. For several years +AngularJS was closer to MVC (or rather one of its client-side variants), but … Read more