On May 7, 2013, at 10:39 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > Comcast thinks my name is Landmangay. It's amusing to hear their > telemarketers try to pronounce it. The reason it's that way in the database > is because they can't put a space into the last_name field and they only get > two fields.
Another example of brain-dead software design. In our new electronic medical record, hyphens weren't allowed in last names until just recently -- I guess someone on the IT side is finally paying attention to the real world. Whenever I see this sort of thing I get steamed up, maybe partly because in LC is just so damned easy to make stuff work properly if you get it wrong the first time. I guess it's harder if you have to do a complete database revision to fix a simple problem. -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
