All You Should Read

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?

I’m on a roll.

Same cause… the n00b: “I use anchor tags to start JavaScript because IE requires it”.

Two words: Bull… shit.

This is how many people start JavaScript (and it’s still being propagated all over the place (*points accusing finger at DynamicDrive and About.com* Stop it, you fools!):

<a href="#" onclick="doStuff()">Clickable stuff</a>

This is wrong, mmmmkay?

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After the previous post, you saw this one coming a mile ahead…

' A confabulated function that only the extremely
' intelligent and well-seasoned web programmers will
' be able to understand. Using it wrong will make the
' universe collapse onto itself. There is really no
' other way to add double quotes to a string in any
' Visual Basic-based language.

StringWithQuotes = "A quote: "". That was a quote."

Are you impressed?

You damn well should be.

Seriously. Licenses. Consider it.

Someone who berates me for not knowing either JavaScript, Ajax or ASP… because I remark how his HTML is inconsistent with quotes.

The argument that proves I know no ASP? Because “that’s why the single and no quotes”.

Yeah, intelligent. N00b.

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