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How to collaborate with another developer who is only concerned with cosmetics?

I'm interested in knowing if anyone else has the same problems I do,
and how they deal with them.

Our website has 4 database-driven applications.

I use ASP & IIS 6 (localhost) to gather data from SQL200 to display
content, but the look of the site keeps changing. The other developer
uses Dreamweaver, and we are at a development standstill. His use of
..CSS and #Includes crash my development box, so I'm reduced to sending
him code snippets that he cuts and pastes into the .asp pages.

Any feedback and possible solutions are appreciated.

Paul
Jul 19 '05 #1
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On 18 Aug 2004 07:01:17 -0700, pe******@chipworks.com (Paul E) wrote:
I'm interested in knowing if anyone else has the same problems I do,
and how they deal with them.

Our website has 4 database-driven applications.

I use ASP & IIS 6 (localhost) to gather data from SQL200 to display
content, but the look of the site keeps changing. The other developer
uses Dreamweaver, and we are at a development standstill. His use of
.CSS and #Includes crash my development box, so I'm reduced to sending
him code snippets that he cuts and pastes into the .asp pages.

Any feedback and possible solutions are appreciated.


There's no ASP solution, or even a technical one, to a personal
problem. Either you work together, or you don't, but whatever you
decide it can't be solved by the simple application of ASP.

Jeff
Jul 19 '05 #2
Well, for one thing, if that person is simply concerned with appearances and
uses Dreamweaver, I wouldn't call him a developer. ;]

I have this same problem where I work. The best thing that I've come up
with so far is to put all my asp code outside of the page designed by our
designer. So, she gives me this:

file.asp:
<html>
<head>
....
<script language="JavaScript">
function MM_someNonsense {}
function MM_moreNonsense {}
function MM_IhateWYSIWYG {}
function MM_UseTextpad {}
function MM_OrAtLeastNotepad {}
</script>
<body>
Prime rate is PUT PRIME RATE HERE, RAY.
</body>
</html>

I return this to her:
file.asp:
<% Call PageLoad() %>
<!-- #include file="DoNotOpenInDreamweaver.asp" -->
<html>
<head>
....
<script language="JavaScript">
function MM_someNonsense {}
function MM_moreNonsense {}
function MM_IhateWYSIWYG {}
function MM_UseTextpad {}
function MM_OrAtLeastNotepad {}
</script>
<body>
Prime rate is <%=sPrime%>
</body>
</html>

DoNotOpenInDreamweaver.asp:
<%
Dim sPrime
Sub PageLoad()
'''code, code code
sPrime = someResultOfSomeCoding '4.50% today!
End Sub
%>


If she ever goes and opens file.asp in Dreamweaver again, she should be able
to redesign as she likes. Basically, all I'm trying to do is keep my code
out of her files. This isn't working out too badly. There is no real
solution though. Just make fun of the person using Dreamweaver until he is
really embarrassed. Then buy him a Textpad license.

Ray at work

"Paul E" <pe******@chipworks.com> wrote in message
news:62**************************@posting.google.c om...
I'm interested in knowing if anyone else has the same problems I do,
and how they deal with them.

Our website has 4 database-driven applications.

I use ASP & IIS 6 (localhost) to gather data from SQL200 to display
content, but the look of the site keeps changing. The other developer
uses Dreamweaver, and we are at a development standstill. His use of
.CSS and #Includes crash my development box, so I'm reduced to sending
him code snippets that he cuts and pastes into the .asp pages.

Any feedback and possible solutions are appreciated.

Paul

Jul 19 '05 #3
"Paul E" wrote in message
news:62**************************@posting.google.c om...
: I'm interested in knowing if anyone else has the same problems I do,
: and how they deal with them.
:
: Our website has 4 database-driven applications.
:
: I use ASP & IIS 6 (localhost) to gather data from SQL200 to display
: content, but the look of the site keeps changing. The other developer
: uses Dreamweaver, and we are at a development standstill. His use of
: .CSS and #Includes crash my development box, so I'm reduced to sending
: him code snippets that he cuts and pastes into the .asp pages.
:
: Any feedback and possible solutions are appreciated.

Smith & Wesson

Enough said.

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