Green Coding – Best practices to ensure reduced costs, carbon footprint and energy usage
What is meant by ‘Green Coding’?
Having efficient systems and well written code is a must, as there will be many benefits delivered. Application systems that have data entry screens or reports used by its customers/employees will be written using a coding language.
Whether it’s the IT Development or IT Support team, both will regularly need to look at the code. The impact of having poorly written code for the systems will cause many problems for the organisation in the long-term. The systems developed must always be supportable, especially when the Developer/IT Support employee is not in, has left, is no longer working on that project, etc.
The code always remains the intellectual property of the organisation. It must be documented well, structured and easy to maintain.
- How many systems do you have which require knowing the VAT percentage? This does change.
- How are calculations made? For example, calculating the energy usage?
- How many business processes require knowing when holidays/bank holidays are?
- How are names stored (first name, surname)? The surname and marital status can change.
I’ve decided to keep the questioning short in this blog post. 
Hopefully, the diagram below will illustrate some best coding practices, to ensure there is ‘Greener Coding’.
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| http://triptaprashar.wordpress.com/2010/08/19/business-at-risk-from-mountains-of-unstructured-data/ | Previous Blog Post on ‘Business at risk from mountains of unstructured data’ – written 19/08/2011 |
| http://triptaprashar.wordpress.com/2010/07/19/whether-you-store-files-locally-on-the-server-or-up-in-the-cloud-it-is-important-to-structure-well/ | Previous Blog Post on ‘The importance of structuring’ – written 19/07/2010 |
| http://www.givingtimeandsolutions.com | Green IT Whitepaper |
DATE: 22/09/2011 06:00pm
Tripta Prashar
http://givingtimeandsolutions.com
