I have had the hardest time settling on any specific variable naming convention, especially when it comes to data members. For myself, I just can't stand the standard naming convention used in Objective-C, the variables just become too long and unpleasant looking.

I break a very common rule, by adding an underscore to the beginning of private data members, but there really isn't any other alternative in my mind. I can't stand using prefix/underscore method, the variables just become ugly. Hopefully I'll settle on a better strategy soon. Any advice?