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Those of us who started work before computers and had to dig through whole drawers full of files marked J. Smith only to find that the one you actually wanted was on somebody else's desk in the other building find your need for 'rules' more than a touch amusing whilst also infinitely sad. Lord alone knows what you young people would do if you actually had to work for a living! 
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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What you are really looking for is a reliable way of uniquely identifying people. Name is good, but not adequate (see above re: J. Smith).
I worked for [a well known credit monitoring company] that needed to do this. Add to that the problem that, in some countries with multiple official languages (e.g., Canada), John Doe may be the same person as Jacques Doe.
It turns out that you can uniquely identify a person with a very small amount of extra information. For example, with full name, birth date, and current geographic location, you get something like 85% -- the problem here being ethnically common names like John Smith and Juan Gomez.
Add a birthplace and you approach 100%.
Basically, for most databases you need two fields for "name": a "Full Name" string, and a "Sort By" string. Add some software (commercial libraries are available) that takes care of the "John/Juan/Ivan/Jacques" problems, birthdate/place and current geography (zip code/postal code/city) and you can be nearly certain that you have the right person, and you can assign/retrieve a more convenient UID.
The rest of the problems (e.g., last name "NULL", punctuation, etc.) are solved with correct programming. If you have trouble with "NULL", you probably have bigger things to worry about (SQL injection hacks).
Freedom? That is a worship word.
-- Cloud William
The only thing a free man can be forced to do is die.
modified 1-Apr-16 11:47am.
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The Irish are born database killers. If we could just convince them to spell their names like O,Donald, then the tech world would be a happier place.
There's really no way to cover it all but to have super long name fields, last name optional, escape and encode/decode, and all that mess. Which, of course, makes indexing and searching so much more fun. I think we're probably all in the same boat trying to deal with a livable middle ground while dealing with the occasional edge-case headache.
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Nice.  
Kevin
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Excellent!
The cost, has so far, been the only thing putting me off mobile development with Xamarin.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
modified 31-Mar-16 13:39pm.
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What's the catch?
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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A whole pile of new bugs, and all the old ones unfixed as well? 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I mean beyond the obvious.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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None that I can see. It's part of MS's plan to generate revenue from the MS cloud (by encouraging its usage) and not tooling.
/ravi
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Yowza indeed!
That could put the C# cat firmly among the iOS and Android pigeons.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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An iOS dev and I built a non-trivial POC using Xamarin about a year back, that was very well received. However, the high cost of Xamarin at the time was a barrier to entry. This changes everything.
/ravi
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I looked at it a couple of times, but the free version was so limited that "Hello World!" was about your lot, and I wasn't going to pay for the full version just on spec.
This could change everything (and probably reduce MS market share for the Windows Phone at the same time, which can only be a good thing as far as Desktop development is concerned)
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Yes, the free version was unusable IMHO. Xamarin was nice enough to give us a year to play with the Enterprise version at no cost.
/ravi
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Since when? I hope it comes as a part of the update. Perhaps share the blog link. 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Since 30 minutes ago - announced @ Build.
/ravi
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That's great news. Can't wait for the release 
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Yeah! This is COOL!
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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This may be the compelling reason for me to move to VS2015. (still using 2010) I suppose then that I can forget about the Android Studio I just installed last week. (and forget Java!) Great news!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Indeed!
IMHO, AStudio is orders of magnitude better than Eclipse, but VS (and C#) are orders of magnitude better than both and Java.
/ravi
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kmoorevs wrote: I suppose then that I can forget about the Android Studio I just installed last week. (and forget Java!)
Nobody can forget about Java.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Ahhh, VS2105 is already out
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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It's been around for a while.
Update 2 has the shiny Xamarin bits.
/ravi
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Oh, goodie!
Erm... what's Xamarin?
I downloaded the whole package and installed it - 6 hours! I'll check it out tomorrow...
Will Rogers never met me.
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