Do you know to capitalize tech terms correctly?

Updated by Jack Pettit [SSW] 1 year ago. See history

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With so many different capitalization conventions used in technology names, it can be confusing to know which convention to use for which technology.

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Figure: John Bristowe tackled some of the most commonly confused tech names in this tweet

The main 5 types used are:

  1. All uppercase – ALL UPPERCASE
  2. All lower case – all lowercase
  3. Pascal case - PascalCase
  4. Camel case – camelCase
  5. Only first letter capitalized - Onlythefirstletter

Here’s a quick overview:

  • .NET - All uppercase
  • DevOps - Pascal case
  • JavaScript - Pascal case
  • jQuery - Camel case
  • Angular (previously AngularJS) - Only first letter capitalized
  • SharePoint - Pascal case
  • email - All lowercase
  • MVC - All uppercase
  • CRM - All uppercase
  • SAP - All uppercase
  • Salesforce - Only first letter capitalized
  • gulp - All lowercase
  • Agile - Only first letter capitalized
  • Scrum - Only first letter capitalized (Note: Scrum is not an acronym, so it should never be spelled "SCRUM") |
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❌ Figure: Bad example - If you want to be taken seriously as an expert in the subject, you should properly and consistently spell, punctuate, and capitalize the technology you are working with

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✅ Figure: Good example – the technology is consistently capitalized correctly across the page

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