Posted: May 26th, 2005 | Author: telcor | Filed under: ASP | No Comments »
I’ve had enough. “Enough!” I say, “Enough!” Of what? Of programming in vbscript. While a very simple language to learn, and easy(ier) for non-programmers to understand, the work arounds needed to accomplish relatively simple tasks is annoying. Or perhaps I should say, it is not as capable as say JavaScript.
It reminds me of what I read several years agao while researching Visual Basic and Delphi. Microsoft likes to make the easy things easier with their tools, but the difficult remain difficult or even increase in difficulty.
I have the feel however that statement is directed at their “consumer” graded development tools. At least what I hear about Visual Studio counters that statement. Of course that is for the high dollar version of Visual Studio.
What does all this rambling mean? That for Intranet development at work, if it must be done in ASP then I henceforth I will use JavaScript.
Posted: May 19th, 2005 | Author: telcor | Filed under: ASP, WWW | No Comments »
Being the Company’s only resident web developer I am tasked with maintaining, upgrading and adding features to our Intranet. An Intranet developed over a number of years by various people, all lacking various degress of knowledge, entirely developed in Front Page.
Recently Corporate upgraded the Intranet server to Windows Server 2003. One of the default features, security-wise, is accessing parent folders using the ‘..’ nomenclature is now verboten in scripts. Of course one can turn it on, but there go your security benefits. With the way worms attacked IIS in the past, one understands why leaving it disabled is a good thing.
However, FrontPage (at least 2000, the version we are using) wants to use the ‘..’ method of accessing the parent folder in its _include_ tags. The solution is easy, change the _include_ from a __file__ type to a __virtual__ type. Easy. Find all the _include’s_ and change them. The Intranet works. Until someone else decides to modify part of the site using, you guessed it, Front Page. Which proceeds to redo all the _include_ statements.
I would like to ban Front Page.