Chapter 10 of "Visual Foxpro 3 Codebook" by Yair Alan Griver (Sybex 1995) has a great section on "Technial Standards and Guidelines.

I am sure I have seen some "standards" topics at fox.wikis.com

>I've been soliciting opinions from folks about
>programming standards recently. I'm working in
>a small shop (one programmer, one person who
>writes code, and a hack) and we're about to take
>on one or two more programmers. Looking at the
>code now and knowing where it could go (after a
>bad experience with a contractor) I'd like to
>have some standards in place.
>
>I'm not looking at becoming a "code cop", but we
>do need to have some standard naming conventions,
>and such. Never having worked in a shop that had
>such, I'm at a loss as to what typically goes
>into a GOOD set of standards.
>
>Does anyone have a set of standards that they can
>share, or can you offer guidelines that will help
>keep down confusion and increase the reliability
>of systems developed in a multi-developer
>environment? I'm also interested in how you would
>suggest keeping such a document up-to-date.