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I'm going with April 1st, or a Friday 13th. Conveniently, 2015 has three of those.
If it's C++, go ahead and rename it and let the compiler puke all over everyone. Then accuse them of not following standards if they complain.
... or #define it to a MessageBoxA() call. 
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For functions, create a new one (like "overload") so that the code calling the "old" function does not break.
TOMZ_KV
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That's not one question - it's four. Methods and classes can be renamed safely as long as you continue to support the old names (be sure to deprecate them using [Obsolete]) for n releases per your SLA.
Renaming assembly and file names can wreak havoc. Do this only if absolutely necessary.
Renaming an app requires sales, marketing and end-user support to get involved and is the most expensive option. Do this only if your bottom line depends on it.
/ravi
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gesh people, don't you know. You always start all programs with Project1 and all variables are var1, var2 etc...
text boxes
txt1
txt2
txt3 etc..
Got to save keystrokes here. Short people short.
Seriously though. Worked with a programmer many many years ago that named everything that way. Oh my goodness her code was horrible.
Anyway. Rename as soon as possible but try to keep it as general as possible. Hard balancing act to follow. I actually have a reporting project that I wasn't 'allowed' to know the name of when I started coding it. I named it DrillInSpecialReports. Unfortunately it was too general and everyone on the team has put all their special reports in that project and hung them all off each other. It is a beast now.
But we know where to look for anything that is a special report.
<grin>
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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I've also worked with one of those people, he also didn't know there existed such a thing as repeaters.
So we had a report with 72 (SeventyTwo) fields named Label1 through Label72.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Any organization is like a tree full of monkeys. The monkeys on top look down and see a tree full of smiling faces. The monkeys on the bottom look up and see nothing but assholes.
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I can relate. At my last job I had to debug a function that the parameters were (a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i) and not one comment in the entire function.
We were also taught names mean nothing when it came to function names.
The consultants who wrote the initial program would commonly call functions that did ten different things when they were only interested in two of them and they assumed the other eight would not adversely affect the rest of the program.
A coworker and I traced a subroutine down twenty-five levels like that and did not hit bottom. We quit because by that time we had no idea what the intent of the original function call was.
Psychosis at 10
Film at 11
Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it.
Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.
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I worked at a place where one developer named all his functions after Disney characters.
He would have fit in at my last job where the first thing we were taught was that "Names mean nothing, just because a function is named 'PRINT', it may not get around to doing any."
Of course the initial software had been written by consultants who had no interest in communicating how the software worked.
Psychosis at 10
Film at 11
Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it.
Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.
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How nice it would be if webinars get started on Code project, Apart from posting writings we can come live to the world.
This is just an idea.
Sorry if this is inappropriate here..
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You could always post a Video Article.
You could always host a Hangout with Google+ CodeProject Group.
You could, I'm not saying you must.....
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Yes that is true, but I was saying if experts on code project set up some thing like webinars..we would have gained much through a live and direct interaction ...
Thank you
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Maybe the experts don't want to set up sessions to have direct interactions. You remember CodeProject.tv?
You can almost guarantee that the muppets would spoil it for everyone else.
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Oh OK .. 
Thank you Sir for your response...
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DaveAuld wrote: Maybe the experts don't want to set up sessions to have direct interactions
What about you? Would you want to have the chance to have direct one-on-one discussions with members over video?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: What about you? Would you want to have the chance to have direct one-on-one discussions with members over video?
Why yes, yes I would.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Jeez mate, you scared the daylights out of me. Here I was expecting it to be Mr Auld and you pop out.
Totally off topic: I may be popping through Sydney next month but it'll be a flying (literally) visit. You anywhere near the CBD or the Rocks? I'll hunt you down if possible.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: Totally off topic: I may be popping through Sydney next month but it'll be a flying (literally) visit. You anywhere near the CBD or the Rocks? I'll hunt you down if possible.
Let me know when and make it happen.
If it happens to be the 15-11-2014, then you'll have to make it my way, no excuses. I brew the keg weeksend after next and this time the keg comes home, with tap and all. Will then bottle anything that is left sfter the party.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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I'll be back in Canadia freezing my bits off by the 15th.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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a) I'm not an expert in anything! (well anything that counts at least!)
b) Nobody would want to sit and voluntarily listen to a balding scotsman who talks at a 1,000,000 words a seconds with a deep scottish accent when talking passionately about something.
c) Public speaking aint my forte..........bad enough when I have to do it as part of my job to an audience of a hundred or so offshore workers.
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DaveAuld wrote: b) Nobody would want to sit and voluntarily listen to a balding scotsman who talks at a 1,000,000 words a seconds with a deep scottish accent when talking passionately about something.
Well if you wear a kilt, drive a tractor and go off on tangents ranting, I think you would have a huge audience.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Ok, and only Irn-Bru, Whisky and Tennnts Lager is served, with stovies and haggis as the food during the intervals.
edit: ps. I forgot to say, put Whisky and Irn-Bru together and you have an Iron-monkey[^]
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I look forward to seeing your webinar. What's it going to be about?
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Sir, I have just started my career and I am learning now. Hope with god's grace I will learn and soon give a webinar.. I wanted to learn from Guru (Teacher) in India like you all...
Thank you..
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C'mon Pete, stick your head out there, let us suck all the goodies out... oh sorry I was channelling the zombie in me. Live Q&A AAAhhhhhhhh....
Wasn't that called a support service in the 90s and was/is a nightmare job for a developer?
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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It's Thanksgiving in Canada and it seems the tradition is to give thanks for those things your thankful for. I'm an import, so I'm still new at this, but I thought it appropriate to make a space to say thanks for the things your friends, relatives and significant-others may not understand. I'll begin:
I'm thankful for:
- Syntax highlighting and live syntax error reporting
- 27" screens, noise-cancelling headphones and Spotify
- Multi-threaded debugging and Edit-and-continue
- Automatic buffer overflow protection. In fact all the security you get with .NET and other managed environments
- Anonymous types. They don't make a fuss, they don't ask for much, they just go in, do the job, and disappear. God Bless their little cotton socks.
- Virtual Machines. What can't they do...
- Source code control.
- Redis
- Cloud services. All of them.
- All the things I can wear on my person that now have more computing power than my previous laptop.
- The continued enthusiasm and cynicism of the developer community: Making things better while keeping reality in check.
- jQuery
- Ergonomic chairs
- 802.11ac
- Dark Horse Espresso
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I've found myself quite thankful for Resharper over the last few weeks!
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