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Jan 27 2001 ____________________________________________________________               C o v e r Y o u r A S P . c o m              Welcome to the latest newsletter!                  http://CoverYourASP.com/ ____________________________________________________________ A lot of downtime all around this week! Some voluntary and some not so voluntary - I'm just glad that I wasn't alone. Spookily I even found a problem on Friday with my DNS setup that is still unresolved - but at least I have a secondary DNS that is still working. ;-) Apparently it's been broken since November, so I'm not going to panic. Register.com don't *seem* to have updated the IP address of my primary DNS that was changed over 2 months ago.. ____________________________________________________________         A   W O R D   F R O M   M Y   S P O N S O R S      http://www.hexillion.com/refer.asp?id=cya7&dest=%2F ____________________________________________________________ Get FREE sample code, online utilities, and articles at Hexillion. Add intelligence to your ASP applications! Look up Whois records, check email addresses, do DNS lookups, find network problems with Ping and Traceroute, and more. http://www.hexillion.com/refer.asp?id=cya7&dest=%2F ____________________________________________________________                     T H E   D I A R Y                The events of the last week             http://CoverYourASP.com/ShowDiary.asp ____________________________________________________________ ______ 21 Jan ______ - Added a little exception handling to utils/database.asp. This is just the start of putting using real error handling, and was just hacked in this morning in response to the security issue I found. I'll document it when my heart rate returns to normal... - Had to take the site offline for a few minutes this morning, then the T lines went down for 4 hours...Sorry! The problem was upstream, not with my ISP. ______ 22 Jan ______ - It took me a long time, but I finally found out why "once a day" scripts were sometimes happening more than once a day! My Banner reports page refreshed the Application variables containing the banners whenever clicks were moved between banners by an advertiser. How? By setting Application('BrandNewDay')=1 !! (see LimitIP.asp for an explanation). It is now fixed... http://CoverYourASP.com/LimitIP.asp ______ 23 Jan ______ - Hakan Eskici just pointed out a potential problem with the code that ignores IP addresses. It was "possible" to ignore an IP address that shouldn't have been. Note that advertisers would have got more free clicks, not less, so no-one's complained...;-) - Added a new page to the trouble shooting section to help you fix problems installing Personal Web Server. http://CoverYourASP.com/Trouble.asp - I succumbed to reason last night and added the Opera browser to the list of "supported" browsers to my clickthrough system. To make it easier to share the code I added a new SSI, called Browser.asp which contains a new function IsKnownBrowser( ). ______ 24 Jan ______ - I enhanced (my still undocumented) exception handling in utils/Database.asp a lot tonight. Now you get much more help when you get ADO errors when first setting up the site on your computer. And if the real site ever gets an exception when connecting to the database I get sent an email. I will write an article on exception handling this week. - Fed up with receiving emails from my HTTP 500 error handler when people load my Server Side Includes directly, I modified Handle500100.asp to only send email if the page in error is in the root folder. ______ 25 Jan ______ - Touched over 70 files again today - improved the breadcrumbs on the multi-page articles so that you could jump to the start of the article, and found an amazing HTML error - I use &#0149 all over the site for my bulleted lists, but it should be • (note the semi-colon) oops! - If you're getting the message "'oRecordSet.EOF' is not an object" please download the source again - the error reporting has been much improved! http://CoverYourASP.com/DownloadCYA.asp - Quick Tip: Don't trust anyone that quotes how many "hits" their site gets! My recently enabled WebTrends log analyser shows me for the first time this statistic and it looks very impressive to the uninitiated - I'm getting 2 million hits per month at the moment! Hits are requests for any file on your server - SSI, images, even the robots.txt file! ____________________________________________________________            R E C O M M E N D   T H E   S I T E !         Please recommend my site to your colleagues            http://CoverYourASP.com/Recommend.asp ____________________________________________________________ Two new articles this week: "Using exception handling to trap database connection errors" To make setting up my downloaded site on your computer easier I use exception handling to trap any errors that occur when connecting to the database... http://CoverYourASP.com/DBException.asp "Please help me design my new search facility - take the survey!" There are three proposals on how I will add searching to my web site - which one would you prefer? http://CoverYourASP.com/SearchSurvey.asp And one updated article: Over the last month I've been moving away from displaying pages and pages of source code without documentation. All my latest articles are heavily documented "snippets" of code rather than the old "here's the contents of the file". Now I'm going back through the old pages (I can't call them articles) and revising them. The first to be revised is the page that discusses my Server Side Includes. Rather than displaying the contents of 12 rather large files I now give an overview of SSI, then describe each one individually. To try and be helpful I have cross-referenced the relevant articles to each SSI, so you know where to read more. Worth a re-visit. http://CoverYourASP.com/SSI.asp ____________________________________________________________               H E R O   O F   T H E   W E E K ! ____________________________________________________________ Jon Gilkison takes the honor this week. Jon sent in the following email - definately above and beyond... "I love your site [always a good way to start an email!], it's great to see someone doing ASP in javascript. Your database.asp file is great, I added some functionality to it that you might enjoy: Added a DBRowCount() function to return the number of rows in a result. Took your functions and wrapped them up in a javascript class:      db = new dbConnect ( );      records = db.query( "SELECT * FROM someplace" );      db.execute ( "UPDATE..." );      db.close ( ); Also, added two unique functions, converting a record set into an array of javascript objects and a function to convert a recordset into XML text. Again, thanks for the great resource!" Thanks Jon. Integrating this and continuing with the theme is on my list of things to do, but I promised a search and a few other things first! For those of you that want to see Jon's efforts you can view it here: http://CoverYourASP.com/DBClasses.txt ____________________________________________________________                N E E D   A N   A S P   I S P ?         Use mine. You won't find a nicer bunch of guys.            Cheap, efficient and extremely helpful.                   http://EverPlanet.com/ ____________________________________________________________ Added to my collection of domains this week. Can't resist! I have been reading "The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing" and was thinking about Law#2, the law of the category. If you can't be first in a category, create a new one. Since I'm the only ASP site to offer itself up completely for download I thought that could be my category. As an extension of that I looked for domains, and my second choice was available so I snapped it up. I am now the proud owner of http://DownloadASP.NET - currently pointed at the CYA site. DownloadASP.com is not being used, but it's already registered by NetZero of all people! So, in a couple of years, when "Classic ASP" is just a quaint memory and ASP.NET is the technology of choice I'll have CoverYourASP.NET and DownloadASP.NET to serve you with! ____________________________________________________________          A   W O R D   F R O M   M Y   S P O N S O R S                 http://www.developersdex.com ____________________________________________________________ Developersdex delivers the world's largest index for Microsoft web technologies.  Search, post, and reply to over 13 of the most popular ASP, SQL, VB and XML Usenet newsgroups. Devdex indexes over 5,000 new resources everyday including those from MSDN, ASP.NET, 15seconds, 4guysfromrolla, ASPToday, XML and ActionJackson.com just to name a few. If it's on the NET it's on Devdex!                 http://www.developersdex.com ____________________________________________________________                      F E E D B A C K             Have something to say? Please share!             http://CoverYourASP.com/Contact.asp ____________________________________________________________ I usually have to filter the feedback and pick out the choicest topics, but not this week. When I went into my Feedback folder where I put interesting emails of the week the cupboard was almost bare! Instead, I'll mention a pleasant email I received from Eddy at webbuilder101.com - CoverYourASP is this weeks site of the week. Go check out my interview! http://webbuilder101.com/ ____________________________________________________________             H A V E   I   H E L P E D   Y O U ?           If I've helped you, help me help others!             http://CoverYourASP.com/Donate.asp ____________________________________________________________ By the way, it's my birthday today - 37 years young and feeling more like 67 when I see all those 24 year old billionaires writing revolutionary web apps! I'm pacing myself, that's what it is. "Millionaire by 40" sounded so much more feasible when I was 25... Thanks Guys! Speak to you next week. Warmest Regards, James Shaw [email protected] 885 Woodstock Road, Suite 430, #108 Roswell, GA 30075-2247, U.S.A. ____________________________________________________________ P.S. 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