My new favorite JavaScript pattern...

So, I've been doing a lot of reading, and I think I've finally come to the conclusion as to what my favorite JavaScript construction pattern is.

And the winner is...

I like this pattern more than this pattern:

The reason is because I feel like the first one is a little more easy to read.

It just seems a little more intuitive to me.

The conventions I use may be a little weird to you, but I'll walk you through why I have seemingly random capitalization.

Most functions and variable names I do in camelCase:

I have all objects start with a capital letter.

I know, I know -- "technically everything's an object".

To refine my previous statement, anything that's an object literal or an object created by a constructor.

Anything else, I do regular camelCase.

I find it allows me to recognize quickly where my objects are.

I'd be interested in hearing about your favorite JS patterns.

New conventions at work...

It doesn't take the smartest man in the world to know that without a good set of standards and best practices, a team of developers can have a real mess on their hands when it comes to project development and maintenance.

Last weekend, I got the privilege of being the coauthor of my team's set of best practices and coding conventions.

I am a relatively decent JavaScript developer, so I got to write the JavaScript portion of the document. I also contributed to the ASP and HTML/XML portions of the document as well.

I am pretty excited about the upcoming release of our document, as it will really help push our team to the next level, and give us scalable, maintainable code.

We've agreed to convert any page that needs edits over to the new set of standards before rerolling it to production.

This will give us some development time increases, but in the long run, the benefit is just priceless!