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About Six Months ago, I put out a simple message board called an excercise in futility, which I dubbed futility 1. Since then I have written two more sophisticated boards, but the people I've heard from seem more interested in a simpler board that they can incorparate into their web sites and use as a part of larger packages they may be working on. Futility 1 was designed for that. The board itself was taken from a much larger application. Problem with the old board was that it ran into trouble running on certain types of servers, and the one thing that bugged me as a programmer was the fact that it would not offer feedback. You know, things like "Your message has been posted." In this new revamped version of Futility 1, I have fixed all of those problems and made the whole thing template driven so it is easier to customize. A live running demo can be found at http://dangerworlds.com/board/messages.asp Please note: For more features, please check out futility 3. I've noticed the Admin in that board is still a bit buggy, however the board itself is very stable and has many more features.

I wanted an ASP script (not perl or PHP) that would read and count the images in a directory, and format them into neat little columns that would display my images in that nice image gallery format I like to see. There's only one problem. After looking for an example of such a script for over six months, I came to the conclusion that one did not exist. This is because ASP does not make this type of information easy to work with. Luckily, there's a work around. This script reads the names of files in a directory and caches them to a text file. This text file is read in ADO, which gives you the power to play with the presentation a bit. Anyway, the end result is a nicely formatted image gallery that works exactly the way I wanted it to. Enjoy.

Why I wrote thise code: While working on a project, I realized that I was writing too many update statements. Not that it's hard, but hand coding update statements can feel like pulling teeth if you are working with large applications where you do a lot of updating. So why not create a dynamic update statement that saves time, and effort, and only needs to be written once? Okay, I admit it, I can be lazy sometimes. But this one is actually useful. This code takes values from a querystring and uses them to update two fields within a database record. It can be used for any table in any access database.

Woke up one morning like I always do and started my computer. Went to the MSDN site, and I saw something that interested me. For some reason, I checked the frame properties to find that their frameset was done in one file. I Thought it was a great idea, so I made one that I thought I'd share. This file will load three web pages that are all stored within one file recursively. Have fun.

About Six Months ago, I put out a simple message board called an excercise in futility, which I dubbed futility 1. Since then I have written two more sophisticated boards, but the people I've heard from seem more interested in a simpler board that they can incorparate into their web sites and use as a part of larger packages they may be working on. Futility 1 was designed for that. The board itself was taken from a much larger application. Problem with the old board was that it ran into trouble running on certain types of servers, and the one thing that bugged me as a programmer was the fact that it would not offer feedback. You know, things like "Your message has been posted." In this new revamped version of Futility 1, I have fixed all of those problems and made the whole thing template driven so it is easier to customize. A live running demo can be found at http://dangerworlds.com/board/messages.asp Please note: For more features, please check out futility 3. I've noticed the Admin in that board is still a bit buggy, however the board itself is very stable and has many more features.

I wanted an ASP script (not perl or PHP) that would read and count the images in a directory, and format them into neat little columns that would display my images in that nice image gallery format I like to see. There's only one problem. After looking for an example of such a script for over six months, I came to the conclusion that one did not exist. This is because ASP does not make this type of information easy to work with. Luckily, there's a work around. This script reads the names of files in a directory and caches them to a text file. This text file is read in ADO, which gives you the power to play with the presentation a bit. Anyway, the end result is a nicely formatted image gallery that works exactly the way I wanted it to. Enjoy.

Why I wrote thise code: While working on a project, I realized that I was writing too many update statements. Not that it's hard, but hand coding update statements can feel like pulling teeth if you are working with large applications where you do a lot of updating. So why not create a dynamic update statement that saves time, and effort, and only needs to be written once? Okay, I admit it, I can be lazy sometimes. But this one is actually useful. This code takes values from a querystring and uses them to update two fields within a database record. It can be used for any table in any access database.

Woke up one morning like I always do and started my computer. Went to the MSDN site, and I saw something that interested me. For some reason, I checked the frame properties to find that their frameset was done in one file. I Thought it was a great idea, so I made one that I thought I'd share. This file will load three web pages that are all stored within one file recursively. Have fun.

About Six Months ago, I put out a simple message board called an excercise in futility, which I dubbed futility 1. Since then I have written two more sophisticated boards, but the people I've heard from seem more interested in a simpler board that they can incorparate into their web sites and use as a part of larger packages they may be working on. Futility 1 was designed for that. The board itself was taken from a much larger application. Problem with the old board was that it ran into trouble running on certain types of servers, and the one thing that bugged me as a programmer was the fact that it would not offer feedback. You know, things like "Your message has been posted." In this new revamped version of Futility 1, I have fixed all of those problems and made the whole thing template driven so it is easier to customize. A live running demo can be found at http://dangerworlds.com/board/messages.asp Please note: For more features, please check out futility 3. I've noticed the Admin in that board is still a bit buggy, however the board itself is very stable and has many more features.

I wanted an ASP script (not perl or PHP) that would read and count the images in a directory, and format them into neat little columns that would display my images in that nice image gallery format I like to see. There's only one problem. After looking for an example of such a script for over six months, I came to the conclusion that one did not exist. This is because ASP does not make this type of information easy to work with. Luckily, there's a work around. This script reads the names of files in a directory and caches them to a text file. This text file is read in ADO, which gives you the power to play with the presentation a bit. Anyway, the end result is a nicely formatted image gallery that works exactly the way I wanted it to. Enjoy.

Why I wrote thise code: While working on a project, I realized that I was writing too many update statements. Not that it's hard, but hand coding update statements can feel like pulling teeth if you are working with large applications where you do a lot of updating. So why not create a dynamic update statement that saves time, and effort, and only needs to be written once? Okay, I admit it, I can be lazy sometimes. But this one is actually useful. This code takes values from a querystring and uses them to update two fields within a database record. It can be used for any table in any access database.

Woke up one morning like I always do and started my computer. Went to the MSDN site, and I saw something that interested me. For some reason, I checked the frame properties to find that their frameset was done in one file. I Thought it was a great idea, so I made one that I thought I'd share. This file will load three web pages that are all stored within one file recursively. Have fun.

About Six Months ago, I put out a simple message board called an excercise in futility, which I dubbed futility 1. Since then I have written two more sophisticated boards, but the people I've heard from seem more interested in a simpler board that they can incorparate into their web sites and use as a part of larger packages they may be working on. Futility 1 was designed for that. The board itself was taken from a much larger application. Problem with the old board was that it ran into trouble running on certain types of servers, and the one thing that bugged me as a programmer was the fact that it would not offer feedback. You know, things like "Your message has been posted." In this new revamped version of Futility 1, I have fixed all of those problems and made the whole thing template driven so it is easier to customize. A live running demo can be found at http://dangerworlds.com/board/messages.asp Please note: For more features, please check out futility 3. I've noticed the Admin in that board is still a bit buggy, however the board itself is very stable and has many more features.

I wanted an ASP script (not perl or PHP) that would read and count the images in a directory, and format them into neat little columns that would display my images in that nice image gallery format I like to see. There's only one problem. After looking for an example of such a script for over six months, I came to the conclusion that one did not exist. This is because ASP does not make this type of information easy to work with. Luckily, there's a work around. This script reads the names of files in a directory and caches them to a text file. This text file is read in ADO, which gives you the power to play with the presentation a bit. Anyway, the end result is a nicely formatted image gallery that works exactly the way I wanted it to. Enjoy.

Why I wrote thise code: While working on a project, I realized that I was writing too many update statements. Not that it's hard, but hand coding update statements can feel like pulling teeth if you are working with large applications where you do a lot of updating. So why not create a dynamic update statement that saves time, and effort, and only needs to be written once? Okay, I admit it, I can be lazy sometimes. But this one is actually useful. This code takes values from a querystring and uses them to update two fields within a database record. It can be used for any table in any access database.

Woke up one morning like I always do and started my computer. Went to the MSDN site, and I saw something that interested me. For some reason, I checked the frame properties to find that their frameset was done in one file. I Thought it was a great idea, so I made one that I thought I'd share. This file will load three web pages that are all stored within one file recursively. Have fun.

About Six Months ago, I put out a simple message board called an excercise in futility, which I dubbed futility 1. Since then I have written two more sophisticated boards, but the people I've heard from seem more interested in a simpler board that they can incorparate into their web sites and use as a part of larger packages they may be working on. Futility 1 was designed for that. The board itself was taken from a much larger application. Problem with the old board was that it ran into trouble running on certain types of servers, and the one thing that bugged me as a programmer was the fact that it would not offer feedback. You know, things like "Your message has been posted." In this new revamped version of Futility 1, I have fixed all of those problems and made the whole thing template driven so it is easier to customize. A live running demo can be found at http://dangerworlds.com/board/messages.asp Please note: For more features, please check out futility 3. I've noticed the Admin in that board is still a bit buggy, however the board itself is very stable and has many more features.

I wanted an ASP script (not perl or PHP) that would read and count the images in a directory, and format them into neat little columns that would display my images in that nice image gallery format I like to see. There's only one problem. After looking for an example of such a script for over six months, I came to the conclusion that one did not exist. This is because ASP does not make this type of information easy to work with. Luckily, there's a work around. This script reads the names of files in a directory and caches them to a text file. This text file is read in ADO, which gives you the power to play with the presentation a bit. Anyway, the end result is a nicely formatted image gallery that works exactly the way I wanted it to. Enjoy.

Why I wrote thise code: While working on a project, I realized that I was writing too many update statements. Not that it's hard, but hand coding update statements can feel like pulling teeth if you are working with large applications where you do a lot of updating. So why not create a dynamic update statement that saves time, and effort, and only needs to be written once? Okay, I admit it, I can be lazy sometimes. But this one is actually useful. This code takes values from a querystring and uses them to update two fields within a database record. It can be used for any table in any access database.

Woke up one morning like I always do and started my computer. Went to the MSDN site, and I saw something that interested me. For some reason, I checked the frame properties to find that their frameset was done in one file. I Thought it was a great idea, so I made one that I thought I'd share. This file will load three web pages that are all stored within one file recursively. Have fun.