I don't want to go into the details of all the things I realized from that experience, but I want to talk about the Coding Standards we are supposed to follow. What is the necessity to have a standard for coding? For a person developing the application it may not matter much, but as we all know a software maintenance is where the true mettle lies. Since TW is into PHP programming, let's take into context various things that we need to keep in mind as a responsible PHP programmer. If you had to go through your code in a few weeks or months, will you be able to understand what's happening without looking at every line and functions?
I remember my days as a COBOL programmer where people have named variables as a, b, c and what not!!!!! Not only was the variable names "un-understandable" but comments were not available either. There are various coding standards in the industry and we can use what suits us the most.
, one which perhaps we can adopt as well.