Gregory-
(1) the developer was in Boise (see my earlier post)
(2) they will give you an impossibly short time to fix it
(3) I hope I'm wrong about (2) !!
:-)
-Ben


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gregory Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 3:59 PM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: Charged with obfuscated code
> 
> 
> Ok, after delving into an application of my employer who shall remain
> nameless I found my employer guilty of the following charges:
> 
> 1) Using a 5100 count directory structure with identical CF 
> content in each
> one (did it ever occur to him that a database with 5100 
> records might be
> better than just putting each record with web page info in a different
> directory?)
> 
> 2) Using <CFAPPLICATION> in many different places in the code, as to
> completely confuse me as to which set of session variables that the
> application is using at any time (every new application=new 
> set of session
> variables, and I didn't know that <CFAPPLICATION> could run outside of
> application.cfm anyways).
> 
> 3) Somehow managing to use Macromedia Ultradev to manage all 
> this code as
> noticed by all the MM_ variables (I didn't kow Ultradev could 
> produce code
> this obfuscated), of course this only adds further confusion 
> to those who
> have never used Ultradev
> 
> 4) and on and on and on...more details as they develop
> 
> But in looking at this complicated and tough to manage code I 
> had to think
> that some developer must have tried REALLY hard to build 
> something this bad,
> even when I was new I don't think I did any of these offenses.  So I
> pronounce this anonymous developer guilty and I make his sentence an
> eternity of having an infinite loop run over a CFMAIL tag 
> with his email
> address there :-) you think I'm being to mean? Too nice?? 
> Your thoughts???
> Your examples of completely obfuscated code???
> 
> 
> But actually I should take this to heart, fixing all this will keep me
> employed a long long time....
> 
> 
> 
> Gregory Harris
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> 
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