Couldn't have said it any better Mike... You've got our support.
Lee Fuller
Chief Technical Officer
PrimeDNA Corporation / AAA Web Hosting Corporation
"We ARE the net."
http://www.aaawebhosting.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Dinowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 12:28 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: Re: Get It Together ----- Whatever It Takes
>
>
> I appreciate everyone's kind words on this as well as the
> criticism. I will
> be the first to admit the following:
> "Programming is the art of trial and error. Even when you
> write something
> beautiful you still have to debug it, deal with events that
> you did not
> take into account and more."
> For example, this morning the list was going fine when all of
> a sudden it
> stopped. When I went to investigate, I found that someone had
> posted to the
> list using some software that did not assign a message id to
> the post. This
> is totally illegal according to the email standards, but it happened.
> Because I did not take this into account as a possible error,
> the program
> stopped on this event and did not continue. Because of it I
> placed in a
> checker for message id and set a UUID in case its not there.
> I also added a
> try/catch that will move a message to a 'problem' directory
> if it throws an
> error that can not be dealt with.
> A problem occurred, a solution was found. This is the art of
> programming.
> To say that ColdFusion should not be used as part of a list
> server because
> of a problem or two is like saying that Windows should not be
> used as an
> operating system because of a problem or two. Arguments can
> be made for
> both but I don't see Microsoft's stock flying down to 5 cents.
>
> "The journey is as important or even more so that the destination. A
> persons destination is the grave. It is the journey of life
> that we enjoy"
> - Michael Dinowitz
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