• (cs)

    HAHAHAHAHA

    I just love idiotic web developers. Makes it easier to sell myself as a quality one

  • Will (unregistered)

    That's mind-boggling.

  • Mike5 (unregistered)

    120

    Love it!!!

  • (cs)

    Oh my... Paula did it?

  • elitas (unregistered)

    Priceless! :D

  • James (unregistered)

    Genius, I bet it’s quick!!

  • dubya (unregistered)

    that's awesome.

    Pretty much the same thing happened at a place I used to work. They hired a bunch of consultants to rewrite the website in .Net (had been static before) - they got a static site with an empty db, and 100's of pages with long query string like values. Best part was they didn't realize it for months.

  • Jan (unregistered)

    Well, this is best advertisment on Deamweaver i have ever seen.

    Captcha: ewwww, Yikes!

  • World Wide... Wait! (unregistered)

    This is no WTF, this is just a manual cache for optimizing web page response! Remember, hardware price is high, consultants paid by the hour isn't! Or.. Wait...

  • (cs)

    Is this "wget programming" ?

  • adrian (unregistered)

    That's...that's just...I can't quite wrap my mind around the absurdity of that one. WTF???

  • Mike (unregistered)

    Wow......just wow.

    You can only imagine what the inside of each of those pages looks like. Probably the exact same content, with a database search parameter changed.

  • soo true (unregistered)

    I'm doing some freelance consulting with an acquaintance of mine right now - its my first gig as freelance - and he was going to set it up just like this. Not to fool them or such, but just because he thought it was supposed to be done like that. It's an ecommerce type website where every single page was going to be static. Worse, the pages were going to be image maps, gigantic image maps. If anything was changed, adding a customer, a product, a new advertisement, you would have nearly had to redesign the whole page. Finally convinced him it was correct to do a PHP/MySQL setup...now we just have a convince the guy we're doing it for...he just wants a pretty website.

  • Brady Kelly (unregistered) in reply to Mike
    Mike:
    Wow......just wow.

    You can only imagine what the inside of each of those pages looks like. Probably the exact same content, with a database search parameter changed.

    I just converted an Access application to WinForms, and the Access application had five detail forms, each painstakingly copying the control layout of the others. What was the difference? Each one had a different parameter in the data source query, so Access would prompt for a different criteria when opening different forms from the menu.

  • Jamie (unregistered) in reply to Mike
    Mike:
    Wow......just wow.

    You can only imagine what the inside of each of those pages looks like. Probably the exact same content, with a database search parameter changed.

    what makes u so sure there is a database behind the scenes....?! :-)

  • uwaefjoiafjio (unregistered)

    Whoohoo! He's struck it rich!

    Too bad the price he'll pay will be his sanity.

  • JOHN (unregistered)

    The REAL WTF is Visual Basic.

    I wish people would stop trying to make it easier for idiots to program. They lower salaries and increase costs, but corporations never realize this, due to the myth that workers * hours = productivity.

  • Bishop (unregistered)

    Often there are some things so hard to believe that I can't help myselft not to google them to check if they are genuine. That one is :p

  • nixen (unregistered)

    Ah haha hahahaha! Well, that happens when you let your team develop in vb ;-)

    (No, no, I realise that it's perfectly possible to make perfect code in visual basic - it's just that that particular language seems to be overly represented in these contraptions)

  • rob (unregistered)

    That's brilliant! I think this will keep me grinning all the way to the end of the day.

  • (cs)

    Each page is created in MSWord and then "Save As" HTML?

  • (cs)

    Oh dear lord. WHY are people so stupid? Someone PLEASE tell me! It's idiots like this (and.. you know, all the rest of the idiots showcased on this site) that give real developers a bad name.

  • James (unregistered) in reply to Jamie
    Jamie:
    Mike:
    Wow......just wow.

    You can only imagine what the inside of each of those pages looks like. Probably the exact same content, with a database search parameter changed.

    what makes u so sure there is a database behind the scenes....?! :-)

    Ye an XML file would be better :-)

  • Theo (unregistered)

    The guy probably used "@" because he realised it was not possible to make static pages with a "regular" ? in the name...

    I'm sure he wondered for some time how the other web developers are doing with their "?"...

  • Keith (unregistered) in reply to Bishop

    It gets better... take a look at the end of /pages/@id=5.aspx:

    <map name="Copyright">
	<area shape="rect" coords="5,10,142,28" href="../../www.i4.net/default.aspx" target="_blank">
</map>

    Not only that, but http://www.i4.net/default.aspx is a .NET 404...

    !

  • Andrew (unregistered)

    ASP = A shxxxy programmer

    People only get into ASP b/c they can't figure out anything else.

  • su (unregistered)

    the real wtf is using dreamweaver

  • Lummox (unregistered) in reply to Will
    Will:
    That's mind-boggling.

    I beg to differ; I think it's mind-bottling. You know, like when your mind feels like it's trapped in a bottle?

  • Andrew (unregistered) in reply to Lummox
    Lummox:
    Will:
    That's mind-boggling.

    I beg to differ; I think it's mind-bottling. You know, like when your mind feels like it's trapped in a bottle?

    Like one with the words Jose Quervo Blanco written on the side?

  • Lummox (unregistered) in reply to Andrew
    Andrew:
    Lummox:
    Will:
    That's mind-boggling.

    I beg to differ; I think it's mind-bottling. You know, like when your mind feels like it's trapped in a bottle?

    Like one with the words Jose Quervo Blanco written on the side?

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0445934/quotes

    I'm guessing you haven't seen Blades of Glory. Either that or I don't remember that quote in the movie.

  • SomeCoder (unregistered) in reply to Theo
    Theo:
    The guy probably used "@" because he realised it was not possible to make static pages with a "regular" ? in the name...

    I'm sure he wondered for some time how the other web developers are doing with their "?"...

    Unfortunately... I bet that's exactly what happened.

    This WTF hurts, physically.

  • Ben (unregistered)

    now that his evil plan was in full swing, he only needed to convince the corporation it was their server's fault

  • Spartacus (unregistered)

    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22%40id%3D6.aspx%22&btnG=Search

    Second from the top for a possible candidate.

  • Whitey (unregistered) in reply to Spartacus
    Spartacus:
    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22%40id%3D6.aspx%22&btnG=Search

    Second from the top for a possible candidate.

    That's it... They're selling anti-depressant medication. I wonder if they eat their own dog food, so to speak.

  • fewbars (unregistered)

    They've buit a business out of hiding the fact that they are incompetent - www.i4.net's slogan is "perception is everything"

    Talk about truth in advertising!

  • (cs)

    Christ, that is terrible. I can't believe someone would come up with that kind of static page naming scheme.

    I am glad that my co-op job is no where near that place of business.

  • YourMoFoFriend (unregistered) in reply to JOHN
    JOHN:
    The REAL WTF is Visual Basic. I wish people would stop trying to make it easier for idiots to program. They lower salaries and increase costs, but corporations never realize this, due to the myth that workers * hours = productivity.
    JOHN, you're a retard. Every time I see someone going "The REAL WTF is Visual Basic" it's a retard like you with overinflated ego thinking he is smarter then everyone else just because he isn't using VB. There is a million different reasons why VB (and .NET in general) is used, and quiet successfully I might add, but you wouldn't understand them anyway because you are a retard. And finally, this crap could've been just as easily done in any of the other 30 or so CLR compatible languages including C++, it's the programmer, not the language.
  • Jasper Mantooth (unregistered)

    I'm a bad man. I've actually handed off sites like this to clients. I'm just another ugly refugee of the NMJ* generation.

    *("not my job") (wget --mirror ftw too)

  • tired (unregistered) in reply to JOHN

    <quote>The REAL WTF is Visual Basic.

    I wish people would stop trying to make it easier for idiots to program. They lower salaries and increase costs, but corporations never realize this, due to the myth that workers * hours = productivity. </quote> John

    Your attempt to open a subject that has been thrashed over and over again on this forum and many others is tiresome. The same code and set up could have been done in many other languages. The problem is not the language, I could pick up a book on C#, C++, php, mysql or anthing else and pump out crap like this in 24 hrs. Please comment on things that apply to the topic presented. Adding such a mundane comment only devalues this site. Thanks.

    tired.

  • poindexter (unregistered) in reply to YourMoFoFriend
    YourMoFoFriend:
    And finally, this crap could've been just as easily done in any of the other 30 or so CLR compatible languages including C++, it's the programmer, not the language.
    As a Java programmer can I just say that this WTF is not restricted to CLR compatible languages.
  • Hungry Dude (unregistered)

    hmmm...a curiously similar structure to the site we're reading..

    http://worsethanfailure.com/Articles/When-the-Query-String-Is-Just-Not-Enough.aspx

  • JonC (unregistered) in reply to Spartacus
    Spartacus:
    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22%40id%3D6.aspx%22&btnG=Search

    Second from the top for a possible candidate.

    Good find, it's almost certainly that one as 5.aspx seems to be the lowest id that works when I try various numbers, and looking at the source code this is the lowest id shown.

  • Bruce W (unregistered) in reply to Keith
    Keith:
    It gets better... take a look at the end of /pages/@id=5.aspx: 
    <map name="Copyright">
	<area shape="rect" coords="5,10,142,28" href="../../www.i4.net/default.aspx" target="_blank">
</map>

    Not only that, but http://www.i4.net/default.aspx is a .NET 404...

    !

    LOL! I know one of the top managers of i4 in Utah. (They actually set up our SAN and did an excellent job.) I should show him this abomination and tell him this is why I will probably never have his people code for me.

  • nowtf (unregistered)

    It is by no means WTF. I've done that to develop sites for deployment on constrained servers - no DB, no scripts. You do this to ease your part of developement - use master page, DB, all locally. After that you wget --mirror site locally and - if properly created - you have fully functional, yet static website. I consider it normal practice in situations where it suits.

  • (cs) in reply to poindexter
    poindexter:
    YourMoFoFriend:
    And finally, this crap could've been just as easily done in any of the other 30 or so CLR compatible languages including C++, it's the programmer, not the language.
    As a Java programmer can I just say that this WTF is not restricted to CLR compatible languages.
    To pharaphrase someone wiser than me: "The problem with making things idiot-proof is that the world keeps producing better idiots".

    Besides, what we're looking at is not necessarity a WTF. I remember doing something quite similar in order to host a DB-backed site on my university account that didn't support PHP - I had a PHP app running at home and with a little fiddling made it spit out static pages which I'd then upload to the university account.

    Maybe the actual code is running somewhere else?

  • (cs) in reply to tired
    tired:
    John

    Your attempt to open a subject that has been thrashed over and over again on this forum and many others is tiresome. The same code and set up could have been done in many other languages. The problem is not the language, I could pick up a book on C#, C++, php, mysql or anthing else and pump out crap like this in 24 hrs. Please comment on things that apply to the topic presented. Adding such a mundane comment only devalues this site. Thanks.

    tired.

    A) You don't know how to use quote tags.

    B) The point that John was making is that while managed runtimes like VB.net are intended to increase developer productivity, they have the perverse side effect of lowering the bar for becoming a programmer. Then a company hires Philip Q. Shitforbrains instead of you or me because he has "tons" of VB.net experience and will work for 20% less.

    Just because you know/use/love VB.net doesn't make you an idiot. But VB.net does allow people who don't know what they're doing to get by anyway. If this project had been written in C++, the dumbass "consultant" who did this job would have never made the cut.

    At the same time, it would have taken more lines of code and more man hours to write it in C++. I think we all understand this. We just like to pick on VB because so many WTFs arise from it.

  • DW Sux (unregistered)

    The real WTF is that the .NET file are set to open with Dreamweaver. Should have been his first clue.

  • (cs) in reply to brazzy
    brazzy:
    Besides, what we're looking at is not necessarity a WTF. I remember doing something quite similar in order to host a DB-backed site on my university account that didn't support PHP - I had a PHP app running at home and with a little fiddling made it spit out static pages which I'd then upload to the university account.

    Maybe the actual code is running somewhere else?

    Either you're WaC, or this is a much more common practice than I would have imagined.

  • rumpelstiltskin (unregistered) in reply to YourMoFoFriend
    YourMoFoFriend:
    JOHN:
    The REAL WTF is Visual Basic. I wish people would stop trying to make it easier for idiots to program. They lower salaries and increase costs, but corporations never realize this, due to the myth that workers * hours = productivity.
    JOHN, you're a retard. Every time I see someone going "The REAL WTF is Visual Basic" it's a retard like you with overinflated ego thinking he is smarter then everyone else just because he isn't using VB. There is a million different reasons why VB (and .NET in general) is used, and quiet successfully I might add, but you wouldn't understand them anyway because you are a retard. And finally, this crap could've been just as easily done in any of the other 30 or so CLR compatible languages including C++, it's the programmer, not the language.
    Nice grammar there, YourMoFoFriend. Did you pick that up at DeVry? VB is a WTF- it exists so that people who can't be bothered with learning how to program, can write GUI apps. It's meant for Shirley in Accounting, but, somehow, the jokers using it started calling themselves programmers, and pointy haired bosses, not knowing any better, institutionalized the error.
  • Andrew (unregistered) in reply to tired
    tired:
    <quote>The REAL WTF is Visual Basic.

    I wish people would stop trying to make it easier for idiots to program. They lower salaries and increase costs, but corporations never realize this, due to the myth that workers * hours = productivity. </quote> John

    Your attempt to open a subject that has been thrashed over and over again on this forum and many others is tiresome. The same code and set up could have been done in many other languages. The problem is not the language, I could pick up a book on C#, C++, php, mysql or anthing else and pump out crap like this in 24 hrs. Please comment on things that apply to the topic presented. Adding such a mundane comment only devalues this site. Thanks.

    tired.

    Now that's funny. Someone who's defeneding VB screws up the quote syntax!

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