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] > > ______________________________________________________________________ This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
