First, I'm sorry. I feel your pain. Lets nuke 'em all BAD DEVELOPERS! Or wait, let's create more so we get more work!
But second, and most important, WHAT IS THIS? LURKER DAY? Hi Gregory, when did you join our ragtag, fun loving, debate frenzy bunch? May you have many muffins bestowed upon you as well as Ben's wonderful puns! :) Erika (with a *K* in the UK) Todd for President!!!! ----------------------------------------------------- Erika L. Walker-Arnold, VP, RUWebby, LLC ----------------------------------------------------- Macromedia ColdFusion Alliance Partner Macromedia ColdFusion 5.0 Certified Developer ----------------------------------------------------- \ >>|-----Original Message----- >>|From: Gregory Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >>|Sent: 22 March 2002 23:59 >>|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] >>| >>| ______________________________________________________________________ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
