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Because after a certain point it becomes difficult to find a unique name.
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots.
-- Robert Royall
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with 26 or so letters I can make as many names as you can with 10 digits; and they could be shorter on average. They might look stranger, that can be solved by including a sufficient number of vowels.
FWIW: when a poster has been too lazy to come up with a name, I may well be inclined to skip his message.
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enter user name: First_Last
name is used, enter user name: FirstLast
name is used, enter user name: First-Last
name is used, enter user name: First_Last
name is used, enter user name: First Last
name is used, enter user name: FLast
name is used, enter user name: FirstF
name is used, enter user name: LastFirst
name is used, enter user name: Last-First
name is used, enter user name: Last_First
name is used, enter user name: Last First
 Forget this, I'm going to codeguru.
And Chris looses a customer. 
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots.
-- Robert Royall
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dan neely wrote: And Chris looses a customer.
He's too dumb anyway 
Jon
Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface
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Unless Chris ever gets an adserve that monitors user intelligence and changes what it charges based what it measures that's an untterly irrelevant observation. 
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I see.
There are ways to make that easier.
e.g. Google's gmail asks for first name, last name and desired mail address;
clicking the "check availability" button either confirms, or suggests available alternatives such as the variations your example includes. No need to try them one by one.
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with 6+ million users, there is no way you going to get unique alias. I say give every one GUID alias
Yusuf
Oh didn't you notice, analogous to square roots, they recently introduced rectangular, circular, and diamond roots to determine the size of the corresponding shapes when given the area. Luc Pattyn[^]
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In real life we have a first name and last name, as well as a social security number. Should we do without our names and use the number everywhere?
Websites have a URL and an IP address, should we work without URLs?
When programming, our variables have names, I hope you use meaningful names, and not var5939128, var5939129, var5939130?
If I were called John Smith just like a thousand other members, I would prefer to call myself
John Smith 492 over Member 5939129.
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I bet you didn't you see the joke icon, did you?
Yusuf
Oh didn't you notice, analogous to square roots, they recently introduced rectangular, circular, and diamond roots to determine the size of the corresponding shapes when given the area. Luc Pattyn[^]
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Yes.
I'm fixing this today.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I approve of the new URL thingy - nice work.
In the same way I can point to "me" by
http://www.codeproject.com/Members/Iain-Clarke
instead of
http://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/Profiles.aspx?mid=27067,
it would be very nice to have the equivalent for Articles.
eg http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/Iain-Clarke
instead of
http://www.codeproject.com/script/Articles/MemberArticles.aspx?amid=27067.
To my handwavy theorising, this should be a fairly easy change to make. As my sig says, I'm busy job hunting (hint, world, hint!), and I'd really like to put a simple URL to my codeproject articles on my CV. It's my main portfolio of code I can readily show other people. I can't really show the work I've been doing for my current job, as that wouldn't be right.
My stopwatch is now ticking...
Iain.
In the process of moving to Sweden for love (awwww).
If you're in Scandinavia and want an MVP on the payroll (or happy with a remote worker), give me a job!
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I'm tempted to say "Done! (on our dev setup)" but that would be a bald faced lie.
But I will say "It will be done".
Just a few niggly little things I need to fix first, most important being making the friendly URL more friendly.
(You're moving to Sweden? There's a story that needs telling...)
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: (You're moving to Sweden? There's a story that needs telling...)
Just realised my sig is ambiguous. I've already found the right person, I'm not going to trawl through half of scandinavia trying to look hopeful!
Engaged to a wonderful Swedish Lass, so moving over there [*]. Flying to and from is too expensive, and not enough. Of course, I decide to do all this as the globe tanks..
Iain.
[*] CPian welcome to come visit, as long as they bring the beer! Bottle shops close way too early..
In the process of moving to Sweden for love (awwww).
If you're in Scandinavia and want an MVP on the payroll (or happy with a remote worker), give me a job!
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I was googling for loading JPEG files. Google gave me this link http://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/View.aspx?fid=1647&msg=2560662[^]
Now when I try to browse through this particular thread, instead of opening the message in the thread, I am being redirected to the 1st page of the C/C++/MFC forum.
Has anyone else reported the same behavior? cause I tried to search for similar query, but did not find any. I am using Firefox 3.0.6 on WinXP SP3.
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Two issues:
1. Because of the way we show/hide messages using javascript, can sometimes link to messages that aren't initially visible on a page.
2. Messages can be deleted which will mean you'll go to the first page.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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A great idea. But my friendly URL is not really friendly. Is there anyway to edit it and make it friendly?
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Edit/Change your alias. As long as it has not been used, you will get a shiny new friendly url.
Yusuf
Oh didn't you notice, analogous to square roots, they recently introduced rectangular, circular, and diamond roots to determine the size of the corresponding shapes when given the area. Luc Pattyn[^]
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Working on it.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Hi Chris,
you are substituteing a dash for every space, wouldn't a period be more appropriate?
That way we get firstname.lastname as is used often in e-mail addresses.
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I noticed. The friendly stuff disappeared everywhere...
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When I pasted the XML in the post linked below into the FF edit window it didn't get encoded. Posting it into IE encoded it successfully.
http://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/View.aspx?fid=3831&msg=2978448[^]
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots.
-- Robert Royall
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Fixed this - should be uploaded in the next day
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Thanks - we're on it.
Fixed
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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