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jamoche at 10:49pm on 18/04/2010
jamoche at 10:49pm on 18/04/2010Name parsing fail:
Why? Because on the page where you enter it, the form looks like this:
To top it off, the complaint form looks like this:
The first computer-related job I had, they added the "Lee Ann Rule" to the names database just for me; the database designer had originally set it up so spaces were an illegal character.
Do not assume that the first space in a name is the first/last break; it annoys the hell out of the exceptions, and it screws up your database. Just give people two fields to enter, and let them put whatever they want in it.
Why? Because on the page where you enter it, the form looks like this:
To top it off, the complaint form looks like this:
The first computer-related job I had, they added the "Lee Ann Rule" to the names database just for me; the database designer had originally set it up so spaces were an illegal character.
Do not assume that the first space in a name is the first/last break; it annoys the hell out of the exceptions, and it screws up your database. Just give people two fields to enter, and let them put whatever they want in it.
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