The author of the guidelines, Chief Constable Andy Trotter of the British Transport Police, said it was important to have a formal code to follow.

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Many companies have formal dress code policies, including UBS which has a 44-page document with specific stipulations that disallow women from wearing more than seven pieces of jewelry and men from wearing cufflinks.

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Most of these people were former Democrats and the dress code was formal, not Chuck Norris denim.

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Others point to Ireland's two-tier model: an ombudsman who tries to resolve complaints by members of the public through free-of-charge conciliation with the newspaper in question, and a more formal press council that upholds a code of conduct.

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The lack of a formal schema, which typically has to be designed before any code is written, means that schemaless databases are a better fit for current software development practices, such as agile development.

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For example, did you know that the founder of Instagram has no formal engineering training, but rather was a marketer who taught himself to program and code at night?

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In developing a formal ethics policy, companies usually begin by trying to sum up their philosophy in a code.

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