Alan Green doesn't like the word "manager" used as a class name suffix. His point seems to be that "manager" is imprecise and instead he suggests a list of alternative suffixes with more precise meaning; though they seem to be rather contrived and smack of using new words just for the sake of it to me. For example using "Herder" rather than the more usual "Collection" (PolicyHerder, hmm...) and using "Bucket" as a pretty non standard replacement for "Pool". He also suggests using Supervisor which seems, to me at least, to be potentially as vague as Manager and just, well, different. Whilst I can see his point, "Manager", like other name suffixes can be overused, I disagree that it's bad enough to include in his list of other banned suffixes and prefixes. I agree with the other entries in his list though.
At first I thought that I suffer from overuse of the "Manager" suffix but having just glanced through some recent source I see clear distinction between Collections , Pools, Allocators, Monitors and Converters (they all pretty much do what they say on the tin), as well as a few Managers that, well, manage things. So I agree, be careful that everything doesn't become a "Manager" by default but you may find that you do need one or two...
Via Jeff Atwood from his Vertigo Software (work) blog.
Bad Managers? I dont think any company on earth could have worse managers than Intelex. Employees dont trust management and management doesnt trust employees so it lends to incredibly high turnover... well that turnover also happens due to them hiring several people and than laying them off when they are done with them. Churn em and burn em is their motto.
Posted by: Intelex Employee at February 15, 2006 05:10 AMSystems Union has the worst managers. Most of them don't know what they are doing, can't motivate their staff and consquently have a high staff turnover. The worst offending being John Hood
Posted by: Anonymous at March 30, 2006 02:34 PMHmm, the comments seem to be taking a completely different route to the one intended...
Posted by: Len at March 30, 2006 02:37 PMSounds like you need a BlogCommentManager to get things back on track.
Posted by: Alan Green at March 30, 2006 11:02 PM:)
Posted by: Len at March 30, 2006 11:08 PM