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Subject:RE: The Burden of Screen Captures From:"Broberg, Mats" <mats -dot- broberg -at- flir -dot- se> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 22 Nov 2002 14:24:51 -0700
> Filenames consisting of magic numbers really bother me. As another poster
> mentioned, it's incredibly furstrating to go to a project folder and see
> hundreds of files named "app-image-XXX.jpg." Unless it's absolutely
> impractical, I recommend choosing a meaningful naming scheme, with the idea
> being that you can identify an image without opening it by reading the name.
Meaningful names are great when you are dealing with a limited number of
files, after which they tend to get very un-meaningful. Our database of
images and document contain approx. 6,500 living files, which would be
impossible to deal with if you used descriptive names. Instead, we log
descriptive information in a database, but assign a number for the file.
After having worked this way a couple of years, you actually learn by
heart in which numbers segments certain images and files reside...
Best regards,
Mats Broberg
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