Chris Sells has two rules for coding standards:
- All code will use spaces instead of tabs.
- All new code in an existing file will match the existing style.
Paresh Suthar has some thoughts on the subject:
<Rant> Suck it up. Your primary responsibility to the company is to write quality code. You secondary responsibility to the company is to write maintainable code. If you’re a reasonably talented developer, it will take you about 2 weeks to adopt a new naming/formatting convention </Rant>