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Think before you think

Since making music was not to be today - I continued to develop the web sites (I actually did quite a bit earlier today as well). The "my account" page is more or less finished so you can update your details now, reset password, change e-mail address and so forth. I then found my self redeveloping a feature no less than three times hence the title of this blog entry. Lost Password? First I created a feature called "Lost Password" which meant that by clicking this feature and entering your e-mail address you should receive your username and password to your registered e-mail address... Great! Once nearly completing this feature, I realised that since I "encrypt" the passwords in the database using MD5 - I won't be able to send the password through e-mail as I can't ever find out what it is, I (and the program) only see 32 hexadecimal characters which is of no use. Reset Password? I then reprogrammed this feature and called it "Reset Password...