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		thomasjonas on July 26, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Basil.js – Smart persistence layer There's a project with the same name out there: http://basiljs.ch/ This made me wonder: how to deal with similar named open source projects? Although the goals of both projects aren't related in any sense it could cause for some confusion...

notduncansmith on July 26, 2014 [–]

Do lots of searching before naming your projects, I suppose. Surely he could have used Rosemary.js, or Herb.js, or Bayleaf.js?

gcb0 on July 27, 2014 | [–]

or something even remotely related to ... who knows... data storage?

notduncansmith on July 27, 2014 | | [–]

Bah, ridiculous! Clearly you haven't received the memo, all Javascript libraries are named exclusively by dart-board now.

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