All You Should Read

I’m proud and honored to have witnessed history being written, tonight.

Yes, we can, indeed.

1. Moving sucks in the US.
2. Some people seem to be under the impression that I’m trying to portray myself as a web designer, who seems to have the right to give bad criticism about their website - and disagree. Fiercely. By calling me names.

Lemme tellya sumtin’: I’m a developer (and my boss pays me to do just that: develop. I haven’t been laid off or demoted yet, so I must know what the fuck I’m doing, I suppose), and I never claimed to be a designer (in fact, on several occasions it’s the first thing I admit before explaining why I think something shouldn’t be done.)

But here’s the thing: just because I’m not a designer doesn’t mean I don’t have an eye for aesthetics, and when code is wrong (ugly, non-compliant, incorrect, bloated, crap like that), well, now… that has nothing to do with design - that’s the development part… the part I am well-versed and seasoned in. Yes, I do know what the fuck I’m talking about code-wise, but if I were an actual designer, d’ya think I’d stick with a slightly modified version of a ready-made WordPress template?

And just because you’re not pleased with the way my stuff looks (which doesn’t hurt me in the slightest, because I didn’t create it, myself), that doesn’t mean I don’t know how to make things work, or that my opinion on the use of certain “tools” isn’t valid.

Which is a nice segue for my next post, coming to a monitor near you soon:

Biggest Crimes In Web Design: People Who Use Microsoft Office To Create Web Pages Should Be Shot Dead.

I keep my word. To those who requested and those who are just interested:

How to save form info to text files, and retrieve them in a single CSV file, using Classic ASP.

Coming soon (after we are done moving our home and all our lecktrickety is back up and running, and all that fun stuff): The PHP version of the same tutorial.

Keep watching this channel!

Someone contacted me:

my question was about creating a csv file based on fields on a website that would be populated by people, voting for their favorite songs. We want to be able to avoid typing the votes into excel.
Your answer was “You’ll need some server-side scripting…

From Tom, at Yahoo! Answers
You know what?

I’m overdue with a technical article, anyway. This week, I’ll tell y’all exactly how to go about this. How’s that sound?

Huh? Huh?

Open Source Development Times

So I’ve pretty much given up on developing an ASP CMS, simply because ASP is severely lacking in certain options (Yes, I could use ASP.Net, but where do I find the time to study that crap?)

The most important reason for me to develop something like this was work - to generate something our Morale Committee and HR could use to issue communications - and our server uses IIS and MSSQL.

Screw it. I’m the administrator of the box, and I installed Apache and PHP… and thankfully, there’s an MSSQL port available for PHP. Saves me a lot of hassle.

But it looks like I still have to develop the CMS, myself, as the one CMS that looks promising has been waiting for a PHP/MSSQL port for over two years, with no solution in sight.

Shame.