• (cs) in reply to boog
    boog:
    frits:
    boog:
    java.lang.Chris;:
    The only justifiable reason for the previous developer doing this is that he/she wasn't allowed to change the underlying data access code.
    Why would the previous developer have needed to change the underlying data access code? Was it broken?

    Oh I'm sure it worked as well as any super sophisticated SQL LIKE query would...

    Maybe it does. And maybe the search operation starts out with 
    if (parameter is invalid)
  throw a 500 error
    or something to that effect. Is it unlikely that the API developers decided "empty string" was an invalid input that they didn't want to handle?

    You may want to re-read the article. The 500 error occurs when "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" is the search term, not an empty string. Or do you mean that "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" is a magic invalid term?

    The error encountered could be something similar to this.

  • (cs) in reply to Helps the Medicine Go Down
    Helps the Medicine Go Down:
    Why exactly was Brian testing with an empty string, anyway? I hate it when devs do crap like that.
    Yeah man, why do devs always have to go testing everything? It's no wonder everything is always broken. If they just didn't test it then there wouldn't be any errors and everyone would be happy. Stoopid devs.
  • trtrwtf (unregistered) in reply to Sudo
    Sudo:
    Roy:
    Not so much a WTF as a "GoreBlimey"
    That should be "cor blimey", but it's easy to see how you came to make that mistake - Dick Van Dyke does the worst cockney impression known to man... it lies somewhere between Pakistani and South African.

    It's true. It's even documented: http://modvda.blogspot.com/

  • hoodaticus (unregisted, but real) (unregistered) in reply to frits
    frits:
    boog:
    frits:
    boog:
    java.lang.Chris;:
    The only justifiable reason for the previous developer doing this is that he/she wasn't allowed to change the underlying data access code.
    Why would the previous developer have needed to change the underlying data access code? Was it broken?

    Oh I'm sure it worked as well as any super sophisticated SQL LIKE query would...

    Maybe it does. And maybe the search operation starts out with 
    if (parameter is invalid)
  throw a 500 error
    or something to that effect. Is it unlikely that the API developers decided "empty string" was an invalid input that they didn't want to handle?

    You may want to re-read the article. The 500 error occurs when "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" is the search term, not an empty string. Or do you mean that "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" is a magic invalid term?

    The error encountered could be something similar to this.

    You've got to be fucking kidding me.
  • (cs) in reply to Sudo
    Sudo:
    Helps the Medicine Go Down:
    Why exactly was Brian testing with an empty string, anyway? I hate it when devs do crap like that.
    Yeah man, why do devs always have to go testing everything? It's no wonder everything is always broken. If they just didn't test it then there wouldn't be any errors and everyone would be happy. Stoopid devs.
    Because, if the bogons are never observed, their wave functions won't collapse into actual bugs?
  • Roger Garrett (unregistered) in reply to Anon Too
    Anon Too:
    Can't be arsed to debug? Just substitute the magic word supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!

    A real pro would have gone for disestablishmentarianism.

    No, no, no. I'm definitely against that. I'd go for antdisestablishmentarianism.

  • (cs)

    Shouldn't it have been

    <cfset searchString="BrownPaperPackagesTiedUpWith">

    ?

  • (cs)

    Damnit, that'll teach me to only read pages 1 and 3 of the comments before posting.

  • Mark Bowtz (unregistered)

    Edit: Thank you all for your positive comments and great support. We've been doing our best around here since Alex's passing, and I think the results have been really good. So sorry to see him go, though, I really miss the mantle he laid on this entire site.

  • neminem (unregistered) in reply to hoodaticus
    hoodaticus:
    Sudo:
    Helps the Medicine Go Down:
    Why exactly was Brian testing with an empty string, anyway? I hate it when devs do crap like that.
    Yeah man, why do devs always have to go testing everything? It's no wonder everything is always broken. If they just didn't test it then there wouldn't be any errors and everyone would be happy. Stoopid devs.
    Because, if the bogons are never observed, their wave functions won't collapse into actual bugs?
    No, they'd still be observed, but only by users. And who cares about those morons anyway?

    Funny, we were just having this conversation yesterday at our team meeting, about how if we all stopped filing bug reports, we'd have so much more time for adding new features.

  • Helps the Medicine Go Down (unregistered) in reply to neminem
    neminem:
    hoodaticus:
    Sudo:
    Helps the Medicine Go Down:
    Why exactly was Brian testing with an empty string, anyway? I hate it when devs do crap like that.
    Yeah man, why do devs always have to go testing everything? It's no wonder everything is always broken. If they just didn't test it then there wouldn't be any errors and everyone would be happy. Stoopid devs.
    Because, if the bogons are never observed, their wave functions won't collapse into actual bugs?
    No, they'd still be observed, but only by users. And who cares about those morons anyway?

    Funny, we were just having this conversation yesterday at our team meeting, about how if we all stopped filing bug reports, we'd have so much more time for adding new features.

    More likely, the jackass was too lazy to try real search results, so he enters an empty search string. I'd throw a 500 error too, if I developed that API. Better than letting some dumbbunny cripple the database for all the users that are actually making sane queries. The front-end should keep this from happening, but the Art Major that created the website chose instead to perpetuate the jackassery.

  • Xenon Xavior (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    Squidfood:
    Someone:
    Personally, I cannot think of a better string.

    But is it one of your favorite strings?

    private string _fav1 = "raindrops on roses";
private string _fav2 = "whiskers on kittens";
private string _fav3 = "bright copper kettles";
private string _fav4 = "warm woolen mittens";
private string _fav5 = "brown paper packages tied up with string";
    These are a few of my favorite strings.

    It's a very rare day that I literally lol based on a forum post.

    Well done!

  • Mark Bo-who-now? (unregistered) in reply to Mark Bowtz
    Mark Bowtz:
    Edit: Thank you all for your positive comments and great support. We've been doing our best around here since Alex's passing, and I think the results have been really good. So sorry to see him go, though, I really miss the mantle he laid on this entire site.
    I expect the real Mark can spell his own name, unlike you.
  • will (unregistered) in reply to Pr0gramm3r
    Pr0gramm3r:
    The correct solution to this problem would have been, 
    <cfif Trim(url.searchText) EQ "">
      <!--- empty string will cause an error --->
      <cfset searchString="null">
</cfif>

    Except that the reason they are doing this is to avoid some problems when the search page is done the first time. There is a good chance that the word null will appear in some documents which would result in items being displayed which you don't want. This was just a funny way instead of using a string of random characters or something like "nullllun"

  • (cs) in reply to Helps the Medicine Go Down
    Helps the Medicine Go Down:
    More likely, the jackass was too lazy to try real search results, so he enters an empty search string. I'd throw a 500 error too, if I developed that API. Better than letting some dumbbunny cripple the database for all the users that are actually making sane queries. The front-end should keep this from happening, but the Art Major that created the website chose instead to perpetuate the jackassery.
    Wouldn't it be just as easy to return an empty result set? Seems over-engineered to me.
  • ORLY (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward:
    TRWTF is ColdFusion.

    TRWTF is endless dildos who think slighting every platform or technology other than the ont they're forced to use in their current slave-cube, is a WTF

  • The Corrector (unregistered) in reply to ORLY
    ORLY:
    Anonymous Coward:
    TRWTF is ColdFusion.

    TRWTF is endless dildos who think slighting every platform or technology other than the ont they're forced to use in their current slave-cube, is a WTF I've never used ColdFusion before.

    FTFY

  • Unfrits (unregistered) in reply to frits
    frits:
    boog:
    frits:
    boog:
    java.lang.Chris;:
    The only justifiable reason for the previous developer doing this is that he/she wasn't allowed to change the underlying data access code.
    Why would the previous developer have needed to change the underlying data access code? Was it broken?

    Oh I'm sure it worked as well as any super sophisticated SQL LIKE query would...

    Maybe it does. And maybe the search operation starts out with 
    if (parameter is invalid)
  throw a 500 error
    or something to that effect. Is it unlikely that the API developers decided "empty string" was an invalid input that they didn't want to handle?

    You may want to re-read the article. The 500 error occurs when "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" is the search term, not an empty string. Or do you mean that "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" is a magic invalid term?

    The error encountered could be something similar to this.

    From the Article:
    he noticed that he would receive a 500 Server Error if he tested against the API with an empty string
  • ORLY (unregistered) in reply to The Corrector
    The Corrector:
    ORLY:
    Anonymous Coward:
    TRWTF is ColdFusion.

    TRWTF is endless dildos who think slighting every platform or technology other than the ont they're forced to use in their current slave-cube, is a WTF I've never used ColdFusion before, but I read somewhere that it's rubbish, and I believe everything I read, so I quote that article, to try and sound like I know what I'm talking about.

    FTFY

    FTFY

  • (cs) in reply to JamieC
    JamieC:
    Anon Too:
    A real pro would have gone for disestablishmentarianism.

    A really real pro would have gone for floccinaucinihilipilification

    A real real real pro would have used pneumoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

  • (cs) in reply to ORLY
    ORLY:
    Anonymous Coward:
    TRWTF is ColdFusion.

    TRWTF is endless dildos who think slighting every platform or technology other than the ont they're forced to use in their current slave-cube, is a WTF

    Endless dildos? Where can I get one? It's my wife's birthday in a few weeks' time.

  • anon (unregistered) in reply to neminem

    Google returns this page now for that search

  • Bill's Kid (unregistered) in reply to ORLY
    ORLY:
    The Corrector:
    ORLY:
    Anonymous Coward:
    TRWTF is ColdFusion.

    TRWTF is endless dildos who think slighting every platform or technology other than the ont they're forced to use in their current slave-cube, is a WTF I've never used ColdFusion before, but I read somewhere that it's rubbish, and I believe everything I read, so I quote that article, to try and sound like I know what I'm talking about.

    FTFY

    FTFY

    I see what you did there. But, do you? hint: whose quote did you change...?

  • (cs) in reply to trtrwtf
    trtrwtf:
    MrBester:
    If you want me, I'll be with the sheep.

    I'll bet you will. Hey, McLeod! Get off of my ewe!

    "Are you shearin'?"

    "Nah, get yer own."

  • (cs) in reply to Sudo
    Sudo:
    Wouldn't it be just as easy to return an empty result set? Seems over-engineered to me.
    And some people think it's over-engineering to handle input parameters that are outside the function's domain.

    I'm not saying the API is intelligent, but the front-end should be aware of what inputs are valid and notify the user when they are not.

  • boog (unregistered) in reply to Unfrits
    Unfrits:
    frits:
    boog:
    frits:
    boog:
    java.lang.Chris;:
    The only justifiable reason for the previous developer doing this is that he/she wasn't allowed to change the underlying data access code.
    Why would the previous developer have needed to change the underlying data access code? Was it broken?

    Oh I'm sure it worked as well as any super sophisticated SQL LIKE query would...

    Maybe it does. And maybe the search operation starts out with 
    if (parameter is invalid)
  throw a 500 error
    or something to that effect. Is it unlikely that the API developers decided "empty string" was an invalid input that they didn't want to handle?

    You may want to re-read the article. The 500 error occurs when "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" is the search term, not an empty string. Or do you mean that "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" is a magic invalid term?

    The error encountered could be something similar to this.

    From the Article:
    he noticed that he would receive a 500 Server Error if he tested against the API with an empty string

    OK. I see right there:

    From the Article:
    <cfif Trim(url.searchText) EQ <span style="color:red;">"">
      <!--- empty string will cause an error --->
      <cfset <b>searchString="supercalifragilisticexpialidocious">
</cfif>
  • (cs) in reply to Bill's Kid
    Bill's Kid:
    ORLY:
    The Corrector:
    ORLY:
    Anonymous Coward:
    TRWTF is ColdFusion.

    TRWTF is endless dildos who think slighting every platform or technology other than the ont they're forced to use in their current slave-cube, is a WTF I've never used ColdFusion before, but I read somewhere that it's rubbish, and I believe everything I read, so I quote that article, to try and sound like I know what I'm talking about.

    FTFY

    FTFY

    I see what you did there. But, do you? hint: whose quote did you change...?

    FTFY

  • (cs) in reply to Matt Westwood
    Matt Westwood:
    JamieC:
    Anon Too:
    A real pro would have gone for disestablishmentarianism.

    A really real pro would have gone for floccinaucinihilipilification

    A real real real pro would have used pneumoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

    Whoops sorry, someone's already been there.

  • (cs) in reply to Unfrits

    I mean really boog, resorting to sock puppets. You should be ashamed of yourself.

  • venio (unregistered) in reply to kastein
    kastein:
    Didn't you know? Microsoft is replacing Visual FoxPro with Visual ColdFusion++ .NET Live Edition

    if this sentence didn't give you chills, you are probably not human.

    The sentence does give me chills, but only since I don't use Visual FoxPro and could really use Visual ColdFusion++ .NET Live Edition for the current ColdFusion pages I am having to maintain in notepad.

  • hoodaticus (unregistered) in reply to frits
    frits:
    I mean really boog, resorting to sock puppets. You should be ashamed of yourself.

    The comedy here is so sweet, I think I'll be skipping lunch today.

  • (cs)
    jumentum:
    hoodaticus (unregisted:
    frits:
    boog:
    frits:
    boog:
    java.lang.Chris;:
    The only justifiable reason for the previous developer doing this is that he/she wasn't allowed to change the underlying data access code.
    Why would the previous developer have needed to change the underlying data access code? Was it broken?

    Oh I'm sure it worked as well as any super sophisticated SQL LIKE query would...

    Maybe it does. And maybe the search operation starts out with 
    if (parameter is invalid)
  throw a 500 error
    or something to that effect. Is it unlikely that the API developers decided "empty string" was an invalid input that they didn't want to handle?

    You may want to re-read the article. The 500 error occurs when "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" is the search term, not an empty string. Or do you mean that "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" is a magic invalid term?

    The error encountered could be something similar to this.

    You've got to be fucking...me.
    What was that you were saying about homosexuality again?
    I didn't mean to offend you. I'm sorry?
  • (cs) in reply to neminem
    neminem:
    hoodaticus:
    Because, if the bogons are never observed, their wave functions won't collapse into actual bugs?
    No, they'd still be observed, but only by users. And who cares about those morons anyway?
    NICE!!!
  • kastein (unregistered) in reply to Gunslinger
    Gunslinger:
    kastein:
    steenbergh:
    BF:
    Michael:
    Anonymous Coward:
    TRWTF is ColdFusion.

    Understatement of the year.

    CAPTCHA: mara ... jade?

    I think we can all agree that the real WTF is the brain dead .NET webservice API that they were using to do the searching.

    Does ColdFusion pay you to say that, or didn't any of the .Net shops want you after reading your resume?

    Didn't you know? Microsoft is replacing Visual FoxPro with Visual ColdFusion++ .NET Live Edition

    if this sentence didn't give you chills, you are probably not human.

    If you were someone who used visual FoxPro, then you weren't human already.

    CAPTCHA: nobis - Only a nobis uses FoxPro.

    CAPTCHA jokes are not funny. Especially when they are that tenuously connected to, well, anything.

    venio:
    kastein:
    Didn't you know? Microsoft is replacing Visual FoxPro with Visual ColdFusion++ .NET Live Edition

    if this sentence didn't give you chills, you are probably not human.

    The sentence does give me chills, but only since I don't use Visual FoxPro and could really use Visual ColdFusion++ .NET Live Edition for the current ColdFusion pages I am having to maintain in notepad.

    Is gEdit or anything similar available for Windows? I know you can set up custom syntax highlighting in gEdit which would at least get you started.

    To the people bashing the coldfusion bashers, sorry, taking a fairly crummy language and ramming it up the ass with XML does not a good language make. Even PHP is less of a WTF than coldfusion.

  • validus (unregistered) in reply to kastein
    kastein:
    Gunslinger:
    kastein:
    steenbergh:
    BF:
    Michael:
    Anonymous Coward:
    TRWTF is ColdFusion.

    Understatement of the year.

    CAPTCHA: mara ... jade?

    I think we can all agree that the real WTF is the brain dead .NET webservice API that they were using to do the searching.

    Does ColdFusion pay you to say that, or didn't any of the .Net shops want you after reading your resume?

    Didn't you know? Microsoft is replacing Visual FoxPro with Visual ColdFusion++ .NET Live Edition

    if this sentence didn't give you chills, you are probably not human.

    If you were someone who used visual FoxPro, then you weren't human already.

    CAPTCHA: nobis - Only a nobis uses FoxPro.

    CAPTCHA jokes are not funny. Especially when they are that tenuously connected to, well, anything.

    venio:
    kastein:
    Didn't you know? Microsoft is replacing Visual FoxPro with Visual ColdFusion++ .NET Live Edition

    if this sentence didn't give you chills, you are probably not human.

    The sentence does give me chills, but only since I don't use Visual FoxPro and could really use Visual ColdFusion++ .NET Live Edition for the current ColdFusion pages I am having to maintain in notepad.

    Is gEdit or anything similar available for Windows? I know you can set up custom syntax highlighting in gEdit which would at least get you started.

    To the people bashing the coldfusion bashers, sorry, taking a fairly crummy language and ramming it up the ass with XML does not a good language make. Even PHP is less of a WTF than coldfusion.

    Did you read this, hoodaticus?

  • (cs) in reply to validus
    validus:
    kastein:
    Gunslinger:
    kastein:
    steenbergh:
    BF:
    Michael:
    Anonymous Coward:
    TRWTF is ColdFusion.

    Understatement of the year.

    CAPTCHA: mara ... jade?

    I think we can all agree that the real WTF is the brain dead .NET webservice API that they were using to do the searching.

    Does ColdFusion pay you to say that, or didn't any of the .Net shops want you after reading your resume?

    Didn't you know? Microsoft is replacing Visual FoxPro with Visual ColdFusion++ .NET Live Edition

    if this sentence didn't give you chills, you are probably not human.

    If you were someone who used visual FoxPro, then you weren't human already.

    CAPTCHA: nobis - Only a nobis uses FoxPro.

    CAPTCHA jokes are not funny. Especially when they are that tenuously connected to, well, anything.

    venio:
    kastein:
    Didn't you know? Microsoft is replacing Visual FoxPro with Visual ColdFusion++ .NET Live Edition

    if this sentence didn't give you chills, you are probably not human.

    The sentence does give me chills, but only since I don't use Visual FoxPro and could really use Visual ColdFusion++ .NET Live Edition for the current ColdFusion pages I am having to maintain in notepad.

    Is gEdit or anything similar available for Windows? I know you can set up custom syntax highlighting in gEdit which would at least get you started.

    To the people bashing the coldfusion bashers, sorry, taking a fairly crummy language and ramming it up the ass with XML does not a good language make. Even PHP is less of a WTF than coldfusion.

    Did you read this, hoodaticus?
    Yes, but I'm withholding comment lest I offend the catamites among us.

  • Mick (unregistered) in reply to Anon Too
    Anon Too:
    Can't be arsed to debug? Just substitute the magic word supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!

    A real pro would have gone for disestablishmentarianism.

    Maybe antidisestablishmentarianism

  • validus (unregistered) in reply to hoodaticus
    hoodaticus:
    validus:
    kastein:
    Gunslinger:
    kastein:
    steenbergh:
    BF:
    Michael:
    Anonymous Coward:
    TRWTF is ColdFusion.

    Understatement of the year.

    CAPTCHA: mara ... jade?

    I think we can all agree that the real WTF is the brain dead .NET webservice API that they were using to do the searching.

    Does ColdFusion pay you to say that, or didn't any of the .Net shops want you after reading your resume?

    Didn't you know? Microsoft is replacing Visual FoxPro with Visual ColdFusion++ .NET Live Edition

    if this sentence didn't give you chills, you are probably not human.

    If you were someone who used visual FoxPro, then you weren't human already.

    CAPTCHA: nobis - Only a nobis uses FoxPro.

    CAPTCHA jokes are not funny. Especially when they are that tenuously connected to, well, anything.

    venio:
    kastein:
    Didn't you know? Microsoft is replacing Visual FoxPro with Visual ColdFusion++ .NET Live Edition

    if this sentence didn't give you chills, you are probably not human.

    The sentence does give me chills, but only since I don't use Visual FoxPro and could really use Visual ColdFusion++ .NET Live Edition for the current ColdFusion pages I am having to maintain in notepad.

    Is gEdit or anything similar available for Windows? I know you can set up custom syntax highlighting in gEdit which would at least get you started.

    To the people bashing the coldfusion bashers, sorry, taking a fairly crummy language and ramming it up the ass with XML does not a good language make. Even PHP is less of a WTF than coldfusion.

    Did you read this, hoodaticus?
    Yes, but I'm withholding comment lest I offend the catamites among us.
    You people would no words like that.

  • (cs)

    I have studied the above code and regadless to the language using by the programmer, it is valid.

    Using Magic values has been computer programming standard for donkey years.

  • C-Octothorpe (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    Squidfood:
    Someone:
    Personally, I cannot think of a better string.

    But is it one of your favorite strings?

    private string _fav1 = "raindrops on roses";
private string _fav2 = "whiskers on kittens";
private string _fav3 = "bright copper kettles";
private string _fav4 = "warm woolen mittens";
private string _fav5 = "brown paper packages tied up with string";
    These are a few of my favorite strings.

    Feature this!

    This made me lol, thanks.

  • C-Octothorpe (unregistered) in reply to Nagesh
    Nagesh:
    I have studied the above code and regadless to the language using by the programmer, it is valid.

    Using Magic values has been computer programming standard for donkey years.

    Ok, it's official. Nagesh is a troll.

    The comment above is MORE than enough proof...

  • (cs) in reply to validus
    validus:
    hoodaticus:
    validus:
    kastein:
    Is gEdit or anything similar available for Windows? I know you can set up custom syntax highlighting in gEdit which would at least get you started.

    To the people bashing the coldfusion bashers, sorry, taking a fairly crummy language and ramming it up the ass with XML does not a good language make. Even PHP is less of a WTF than coldfusion.

    Did you read this, hoodaticus?
    Yes, but I'm withholding comment lest I offend the catamites among us.
    You people would no words like that.
    NICE!

  • (cs) in reply to venio
    venio:
    kastein:
    Didn't you know? Microsoft is replacing Visual FoxPro with Visual ColdFusion++ .NET Live Edition

    if this sentence didn't give you chills, you are probably not human.

    The sentence does give me chills, but only since I don't use Visual FoxPro and could really use Visual ColdFusion++ .NET Live Edition for the current ColdFusion pages I am having to maintain in notepad.

    I got chills too. They're multiplying, and I'm losing control.

  • Nagesh (unregistered) in reply to C-Octothorpe
    C-Octothorpe:
    Nagesh:
    I have studied the above code and regadless to the language using by the programmer, it is valid.

    Using Magic values has been computer programming standard for donkey years.

    Ok, it's official. Nagesh is a troll.

    The comment above is MORE than enough proof...

    I am surprising it took you so long to datter-mine this. What was first clue?

  • VI Commander (unregistered) in reply to venio
    venio:
    kastein:
    Didn't you know? Microsoft is replacing Visual FoxPro with Visual ColdFusion++ .NET Live Edition

    if this sentence didn't give you chills, you are probably not human.

    The sentence does give me chills, but only since I don't use Visual FoxPro and could really use Visual ColdFusion++ .NET Live Edition for the current ColdFusion pages I am having to maintain in notepad.

    TRWTF is notepad. Who would seriously want an editor that you don't navigate using jkl;?
    • Sent from my Palm III
  • (cs)

    Clean, easy to read, well documented code works... what's the problem?

  • Emacs General (unregistered) in reply to VI Commander
    VI Commander:
    venio:
    kastein:
    Didn't you know? Microsoft is replacing Visual FoxPro with Visual ColdFusion++ .NET Live Edition

    if this sentence didn't give you chills, you are probably not human.

    The sentence does give me chills, but only since I don't use Visual FoxPro and could really use Visual ColdFusion++ .NET Live Edition for the current ColdFusion pages I am having to maintain in notepad.

    TRWTF is notepad. Who would seriously want an editor that you don't navigate using jkl;?
    • Sent from my Palm III
    Duh, any editor that doesn't require you to do learn Lisp to perform basic text editing isn't worth having.
  • sock-puppet Sandy (unregistered) in reply to Matt Westwood
    Matt Westwood:
    venio:
    kastein:
    Didn't you know? Microsoft is replacing Visual FoxPro with Visual ColdFusion++ .NET Live Edition

    if this sentence didn't give you chills, you are probably not human.

    The sentence does give me chills, but only since I don't use Visual FoxPro and could really use Visual ColdFusion++ .NET Live Edition for the current ColdFusion pages I am having to maintain in notepad.

    I got chills too. They're multiplying, and I'm losing control.

    You better shape up.

  • Cough Sneeze Splutter (unregistered) in reply to MrBester
    MrBester:
    Pyroka:
    F:
    Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantisiliogogogoch. There's no chance whatsoever of that accidentally producing a successful search.
    Unless you're searching for hotels in Wales
    Nope, not even then. Perhaps if you were searching for "places that sell novelty railway platform tickets in Wales" you might get lucky, but mostly you'd get back Llanfair, Anglesey (as distinct from all the other Llanfairs around Wales). Llanfair P.G. is also acceptable but nobody calls it Llanfairpwllgwll...gogogoch any more.

    If you want me, I'll be with the sheep.

    Uhm - aren't you talking about the opposite. It's not about whether it appears in search results for other terms, it's about whether that term produces results....

  • (cs) in reply to C-Octothorpe
    C-Octothorpe:
    Nagesh:
    I have studied the above code and regadless to the language using by the programmer, it is valid.

    Using Magic values has been computer programming standard for donkey years.

    Ok, it's official. Nagesh is a troll.

    The comment above is MORE than enough proof...

    I am no troll. I am serous about use of magic values. E.F Codd also mention NULL as a magic value in his early papers.

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