http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/04/boston-college-prompt-commands-are-suspicious
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Prompt commands "may indicate criminal activity"
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RE: "Just clean it up"
@Pol said:
That's what you had to buy Dreamweaver for!
LOL
Reminds me of a story in high school IT lessons.
Assignment is to produce a simple set of webpages, so naturally the tool of choice the teacher tells everyone is frontpage. Finding frontpage to be the steaming pile of excrement that it is, I decide to instead just fire up notepad and get to work.
While hard at work on my assignment, another student sitting next to me looks at me writing up HTML in notepad and asks what i'm doing. I respond "i'm writing the webpage, I prefer doing it by hand instead of using frontpage". They respond "that looks crap" (talking about the HTML displayed in notepad) and I respond by hitting alt+tab and showing them the result in a browser.
Then they accuse me of going online during a lesson (a great sin in that school!) and tell the teacher, result being that the teacher demands I "get back to work" using frontpage. I continue by using frontpage's HTML pane instead.
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RE: "Just clean it up"
I guessed that the _r and _c would correspond to row and column, but still - what a nightmare to work with, and that says nothing about the database schema.
More to the point - what's wrong with using an image map?
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"Just clean it up"
Recently I had a web design client who, long story short, had a rough static HTML site which he wanted me to add some DB admin frontend stuff to and a web service that interacted with the MySQL database. Apparently another developer had started the job and just went out of contact. It ran on the usual LAMP stack, we negotiated on price and then he handed over FTP/cpanel access and I got to work - mistake number 1, I didn't read the HTML upfront.
Each page was made up of a table where every cell was part of an image, with names such as page1_10_11.gif, links were added onto single table cells.
The title of each page was either the domain name of the site or a filename such as logo.gif.
In the database, some questions for a quiz were stored, the questions table had question_id, question_name and question_text.
The answers table, also had question_id, question_name and question_text, and answer_text_id.
The answers_text table had question_id,question_name,question_text, answer_id,answer_text_id and answer_text
A small sample from the homepage, names altered for obvious reasons:
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<tr>
<td rowspan="6"><img name="homepage_r2_c1" src="images/homepage_r2_c1.gif" width="6" height="551" border="0" id="homepage_r2_c1" alt="" /></td>
<td rowspan="2" colspan="2"><a href="http://www.wtfsite.com"><img name="homepage_r2_c2" src="images/homepage_r2_c2.gif" width="63" height="15" border="0" id="homepage_r2_c2" alt="" /></a></td>
<td rowspan="4"><img name="homepage_r2_c4" src="images/homepage_r2_c4.gif" width="8" height="333" border="0" id="homepage_r2_c4" alt="" /></td>
<td rowspan="2"><a href="http://www.wtfsite.com/private/"><img name="homepage_r2_c5" src="images/homepage_r2_c5.gif" width="81" height="15" border="0" id="homepage_r2_c5" alt="" /></a></td>
<td colspan="3"><img name="homepage_r2_c6" src="images/homepage_r2_c6.gif" width="90" height="1" border="0" id="homepage_r2_c6" alt="" /></td>
<td rowspan="2"><a href="http://www.wtfsite.com/aboutus.html"><img name="homepage_r2_c9" src="images/homepage_r2_c9.gif" width="81" height="15" border="0" id="homepage_r2_c9" alt="" /></a></td>
<td rowspan="4"><img name="homepage_r2_c10" src="images/homepage_r2_c10.gif" width="1" height="333" border="0" id="homepage_r2_c10" alt="" /></td>
<td rowspan="2" colspan="2"><a href="http://www.wtfsite.com/contactus.html"><img name="homepage_r2_c11" src="images/homepage_r2_c11.gif" width="81" height="15" border="0" id="homepage_r2_c11" alt="" /></a></td>
<td rowspan="4" colspan="3"><img name="homepage_r2_c13" src="images/homepage_r2_c13.gif" width="389" height="333" border="0" id="homepage_r2_c13" alt="" /></td>
<td><img src="images/spacer.gif" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" /></td>
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RE: Welcome to Second Life
The real WTF with SL is the viewer source code, the std:: namespace is too good for linden lab apparently.
LLString
LLCrashAndLoop(); // default fatal function
Those 2 are my favourite examples. Not that I have much against SL in general (I in fact own a direct competitor) but there's a few random WTFs with it.
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RE: Remote / local server - need advice
I'll go one further and say "put your database server on the VPN and use subversion or another VCS for the code and images".
Oh, and this is my first post - hi everyone