I have an article on that as well. variable spacing and the var keyword. That's it. I'm getting a blog up asap. I can't have articles in pieces on my drive. Might as well have them in pieces where people can read the pieces.
> Go for it. At the very least I'll be reading it. It just has taken me > all morning to find out why a simple cost variable (quantity * price) > was showing up as 0 - as it turned out it was being set in an include > that should not have been in there in the first place. I'll be so glad > when we dumpthis whole shopping cart system, for a CFC. > > larry > > > On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 11:00:04 -0500, Michael Dinowitz > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm working on the tracker code at the moment over remote desktop from home. > > It's that bad (the situation). :) > > The MN code isn't that bad because it works and I have time to clean and > > optimize it. Problem is finding what I need in the mess. A template should not > > have more than 3-5 included templates, not 30-50. A CFC should do the work and > > only the work its meant to do, not get convoluted into doing 20 different > > functions. > > That's it, I'm writing another article on this. After the article on optimizing > > CF by optimizing your system and the different ways to display large data > > chunks. I feel the need to write. > > > > > > > > > I can sympathize with you Mike. I'm in the middle of taking a huge > > > site that is nothing but spaghetti code written in CF 3.1/4.5, > > > convoluted, twisted EVIL spaghetti code whose sole purpose was to > > > provide someone long ago with job security, and convert the whole > > > thing into CFMX, and improve on it at the same time. The organization > > > is so conservative that they seriously asked if printing out the order > > > forms and faxing it in wouldn't be better. and its all due in a week. > > > > > > Given all that Ray's code or the code from mothernature.com is not all that > > bad. > > > > > > larry > > > > > > > > > On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 01:13:05 -0500, Michael Dinowitz > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > <CF_Rant> > > > > I have to let it out a bit. > > > > I spent today home resting and playing with code. What type of code? Low > > level > > > > optimization of Blackstone templates. Learned a lot of stuff. Found > > different > > > > ways to do things that are tighter than what I was doing before. Talked with > > > > people at MM about what I found. All in all, it was great. I loved it. It > > was > > > > what I was meant to do. Investigation, documentation, optimization and > > creation > > > > of new things. In being so happy with what I was doing the realization that > > I > > > > just am not enthusiastic about my job hit me. > > > > The work I'm actually getting paid for is to make mothernature.com work, > > upgrade > > > > their systems, etc. Nice work and all, but I'm steadily losing my enthusiasm > > for > > > > it as it's really kind of grunt work. I spent yesterday rewriting Raymond's > > > > bugtracker into a project tracker for them. > > > > "Why not just get a different package?" > > > > "Because we're already using this and it shouldn't take you any time to > > convert > > > > the whole thing to DB and add in the new features." > > > > Riiiiight. It wasn't so hard to convert, but took a little time. Why? > > Because it > > > > was grunt work and I hate grunt work. A trained monkey can convert a spectra > > > > like bugtracker to use DB. This is basically what I have to deal with every > > day. > > > > Grunt work with no real intelligence needed. Bug fixes to a code base > > written by > > > > someone who should be shot. A publicly traded company sitting on a code base > > > > that 'works', but is so convoluted that it takes more time to hunt down a > > bug > > > > (through dozens of templates per page) than to fix it. > > > > Why can't I get a job where I can do what I want to do. I want to write. I > > want > > > > to investigate. I want to write clean, tight code from scratch that is > > > > beautiful. I want to live in the art and beauty that is simple, tight code. > > > > Today I rewrote the article display page for FA (final version). Do you know > > > > it's about 6 lines of code. > > > > I want to do that for everything. I want to let everyone know what I'm > > doing. I > > > > want to do so much and I'm stuck working. > > > > Yep, the rant is all about work which is foolish. I know people who are out > > of > > > > work. I was out of work for a nice sized chunk of time. I should not > > complain, > > > > especially as I have mouths to feed. I just want more out of life. I want to > > > > help people. I want to enjoy what I do. I want to build all the cool stuff > > > > that's sitting in my head. I want to be cloned! > > > > </CF_Rant> > > > > -- > > > > Michael Dinowitz > > > > House of Fusion > > > > http://www.houseoffusion.com > > > > Finding technical solutions to the problems you didn't know you had yet > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Gold Sponsor - CFHosting.net http://www.cfhosting.net Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:138693 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
