Wednesday, November 28, 2007

I'm am sometimes suprised by the fact that when I have a problem and I start looking for answers that it doesn't matter so much what language the answer comes in. What I mean by this is that I have been having a problem which I thought was possibly related to the encoding of a Excel xml file which is being generated using ExcelXmlWriter (http://www.carlosag.net/Tools/ExcelXmlWriter/Default.aspx). I think it turns out the problem is something else which I'm still trying to figure out. The point is that I keep finding examples of code which were written by people from other countries, and while I can't read what they're saying I can read and understand their code. I love that no matter the language of the person the code is still human language independent.

Happy programming!

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

I thought I had to write this down in case someone else out there is having the same problem. I just re-organized my aspx pages into content pages for use within a master page and started getting the infamous "Invalid postback or callback argument". So I did the usual when I recieve some strange error message, I copy/pasted it into google. What I found was thousands of similar posts from other having the same problem and no answers.

After some looking I found a post which helped my track down my problem: http://weblogs.pontonetpt.com/miguelisidoro/posts/24975.aspx. It was Miguel's comment about the nested form tags that got me going. I did a quick search of my aspx page and found that I had forgotten to remove a ending < / form > tag. So watch out for nested and or incomplete html in the pages.

Monday, June 04, 2007

I don't know if anyone else has experienced this but this is sure causing me a headache. I'll start by saying that I love the Google Firefox Browser Sync tool. Since I started using it it has made my life immensely easier. The downside to this has been that once in a while I try to synchronize a new computer with the with what I have and it all falls apart. what happens is this, the new computer doesn't get updated to my current settings, instead the current settings get changed to match the newly added computer. This causes me to lose everything that I have worked on for so long. Fortunately I had the foresight to backup my bookmarks before doing this and have since recovered what I lost in the sync. So my lesson and advice to you is do regular backups of your bookmarks and whatever else is important to you because it can all still come crumbling down.

Monday, May 21, 2007

Well, I'm sitting here today at work trying to get this shipping rate web service to work and finding out how non-standard country codes and names are, again. I say again because I first built a database table to store countries a while back and am now finding that what is shipping carriers use is different then what the ISO and UN publish. You would think that these governing bodies would be able to come up with a unified system for something that seems so important.

Thanks for listening, I just needed to rant a bit while I try and work this out.