Best practices are tough for practices where the foundations are not stable. And with programming, we have trouble defining the foundations. Much less stabili

Best practices are tough for practices where the foundations are not stable. And with programming, we have trouble defining the foundations. Much less stabilizing them. And note I don't mean stable as in, not crashing. I mean it as not changing. For a while, this was doable with java. For its warts, it gave a good foundation. Industry practice got caught up in start up enthusiasm, though, and that went out the window. Similar could probably be said for Windows. I was not a fan of its model, but it provided a stable base for business apps for a long time.