Citizensheep » Troubleshooting http://citizensheep.com/blog Michael Grimes lives in Birmingham (UK). This is his blog about anything that he fancies. Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:40:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Scratching my head over Rails http://citizensheep.com/blog/2010/05/17/scratching-my-head-over-rails/ http://citizensheep.com/blog/2010/05/17/scratching-my-head-over-rails/#comments Mon, 17 May 2010 08:20:34 +0000 Michael http://citizensheep.com/blog/?p=2379

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    • ]]>     I’m trying to teach myself Rails, but I’m not even a programmer. So when I’m stumped, I’m fairly stumped. Currently my app is not saving form data when it should be, and redirecting when it shouldn’t.

    Update

    I’ve actually fixed this now. It was the ‘home_path’ route that was causing the problems. Thanks to everyone who made suggestions on Twitter, and particularly Josh Hart for thrashing it out with me over a coffee.

    I’ve had a few suggestions via Twitter, but still can’t get it to work. If you happen to be a Rails developer I’d be eternally grateful for any advice on the code below (for some reason the embedding seems to be screwing up the line numbering).

    ]]>     http://citizensheep.com/blog/2010/05/17/scratching-my-head-over-rails/feed/ 0     Footer fixed, at last http://citizensheep.com/blog/2009/01/16/footer-fixed-at-last/ http://citizensheep.com/blog/2009/01/16/footer-fixed-at-last/#comments Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:46:15 +0000 Michael http://citizensheep.com/blog/?p=533

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    • ]]>     I finally got around to fixing the footer on this blog. It still looks a bit strange when the right column is longer than the left, but at least it doesn’t look completely broken.

    ]]>     http://citizensheep.com/blog/2009/01/16/footer-fixed-at-last/feed/ 0     Help! WordPress is censoring me… or is it? http://citizensheep.com/blog/2009/01/16/help-wordpress-is-censoring-me-or-is-i/ http://citizensheep.com/blog/2009/01/16/help-wordpress-is-censoring-me-or-is-i/#comments Fri, 16 Jan 2009 01:05:27 +0000 Michael http://citizensheep.com/blog/?p=509

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    • ]]>     I love WordPress, but this evening I encountered a very odd bug. I don’t know whether it’s WordPress itself, my database, or a combination of the two.

    Basically, WordPress wouldn’t let me use the word ‘settle’. Instead it returned a 403 error. However, it does seem to be working now. Very odd.

    All I could find from Google was a similar weirdness from 2005, where WordPress had problems with words that were also PHP commands. But, as far as I can tell, ‘settle’ doesn’t seem to be a PHP command. And besides, that was four years ago.

    This would just be an amusing quirk, if it wasn’t for the fact that I’m considering moving our entire organisation’s website – which could include a number of separately managed microsites – over to WordPress. Suddenly breaking for no apparent reason when typing an arbitrary word is a problem: not only is there no obvious reason and therefore no easy fix (other than to use a different word), it’s quite a job to isolate the problem in the first place.

    That’s quite a bit of a bummer, actually.

    ]]>     http://citizensheep.com/blog/2009/01/16/help-wordpress-is-censoring-me-or-is-i/feed/ 0     Join the cause for standards in html email http://citizensheep.com/blog/2007/10/01/35/ http://citizensheep.com/blog/2007/10/01/35/#comments Mon, 01 Oct 2007 16:17:25 +0000 Michael http://citizensheep.com/blog/?p=35

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    • ]]>     I’ve suffered plenty of headaches trying to create standards-compliant emails, and have given up in favour of bloated, cumbersome, outdated html (ie the stuff of nightmares where the design of each paragraph is dependent on its own font tags).

    Thus I urge all those who also suffer these headaches to get involved (or at least keep up to speed) with the good work underway at campaignmonitor.com (see their post ‘Help us form a baseline for standards support‘).

    ]]>     http://citizensheep.com/blog/2007/10/01/35/feed/ 0     Not so del.icio.us http://citizensheep.com/blog/2007/09/11/not-so-delicious/ http://citizensheep.com/blog/2007/09/11/not-so-delicious/#comments Tue, 11 Sep 2007 07:13:27 +0000 Michael http://citizensheep.com/blog/?p=32

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    • ]]>     Is it me, or is del.icio.us very, very, very slow at the moment? I’ve been experiencing this for a few days—sometimes the server doesn’t respond at all—but I can’t find any reference to a problem at their end.

    ]]>     http://citizensheep.com/blog/2007/09/11/not-so-delicious/feed/ 0     Corrupt tiddlers http://citizensheep.com/blog/2007/04/03/corrupt-tiddlers/ http://citizensheep.com/blog/2007/04/03/corrupt-tiddlers/#comments Tue, 03 Apr 2007 15:09:52 +0000 Michael http://citizensheep.com/blog/?p=19

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    • ]]>     This relates to a post I made to the GTD TiddlyWiki group.

    I upgraded to MGTD 2 Alpha by starting a new tiddlywiki, importing the entire contents of my old one and then re-importing the upgrades. It seems to have worked, except the formatting of my Project tiddlers appears to be corrupt.

    If anyone out there understands what I’m saying and has any suggestions, please get in touch.

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