October 8, 2002

Over the weekend Edward McCain found several bugs in the latest build of Blog. Not only did he help eliminate (at least we think it eliminated it …) that infuriating “list index out of bounds” error but he discovered several other problems which caused errors in Blog. Not cotent wiht that, he went on to discover a couple of more bugs in the Purge Entries dialog which has probably been there since that option was added – shows what a good tester I am :p Oh yeah, he also found a curious problem with the calendar control in that we can only go back to October 1752 – not sure about the year but it’s somewhere around there. This of course seems to be either standard Delphi or standard MS behaviour but it was an interesting thing …

I’ve fixed all the other bugs – can’t do anything about the calendar control – and probably am ready to release Blog 7.0 final except for the fact that I am no too happy with the digest functionality yet. So I might just wait till I have got to the US, settled in and had time to contemplate the digest functionality a bit more before I do the next (and hopefully the final …) release. Oh yes, another bug which has come up is Blog not recognizing that there is an Internet connection when you have a cable Net connection. I’ve heard about this once before but the person who reported it didn’t seem to be willing to help with finding the cause but now Andrew has come forward to work with me on this. Anybody else on cable who has this problem or had this problem and sorted it out?

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Posted by Fahim at 5:25 am   Comments (7)

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Bacchus 07 October 2002 at 5:02 pm

Regarding the problem with Blog not finding my cable connection: I had this problem but it was easy to fix. By default, the Tools:Options item for “automatically dial out using [your dialup here]” was checked — and I got a Blog error upon attempting to publish. However, unchecking the box fixed me up, and I was able to connect after that.

One other bug I’ve found in 6.95 has to do with the template editing box under tools:journal management: templates. The first time I paste any significant amount of text in that box, some of it at the bottom is not retained. However, if I paste a second time, the paste operation works and the whole document can be pasted in.

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Bacchus 07 October 2002 at 5:05 pm

Oh yes, one other frustrating thing that took me awhile to fix (though it is not a bug I think) was the inclusion of the cookies tag in the default template even though the cookies functionality is not part of the basic download. The result was a database error (no cookies database file) upon efforts to publish — and it took me a while to compare the default template and the readmes to figure out what was going on and get a successful test publish. Obviously it would have worked itself out by the time I got a working blog template substituted in, but the initial software test was frusterpating. 🙂

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Lance 08 October 2002 at 1:53 am

About the 1752 calendar issue, take a look at this information:

http://www.didyouknow.cd/calendar.htm

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John 08 October 2002 at 5:36 am

Sorry unsure if should comment in this part, with regard to the paragraph and line breaks, i have been attempting to update all my code to XHMTL 1.1 compliance. I would prefer if a space creates a double as opposed to a tag. Also the tag is not compliant… otherwise, the best tool on the net… I love it

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John 08 October 2002 at 5:37 am

Sorry unsure if should comment in this part, with regard to the paragraph and line breaks, i have been attempting to update all my code to XHMTL 1.1 compliance. I would prefer if a space creates a double br / as opposed to a p tag. Also the a name=”BlogID129″ tag is not compliant… otherwise, the best tool on the net… I love it

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Tyran 09 October 2002 at 5:44 am

John,

It rarely does any good to point out a problem and then not offer some form of solution.

That being the case, here is the other information you might have provided:  The name attribute has been replaced with the id attribute.  Using the id attribute to replace the name attribute in an anchor tag <a id=”BlogID###”></a> results in the same behavior as using the deprecated name attribute.  It would be nice to see the anchor tag code brought up to current XHMTL standard, when Fahim finds time in between his preparations to move between countries again that is :o-)

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Andrew Kantor 09 October 2002 at 9:18 am

Regarding the cable-modem problem: It may not have been a cable-modem issue. It may have been a general Windows XP issue. I had done various tweaks to get the most out of my cable connection, and that might have done weird things. So I solved the ‘no Net connection’ problem by removing my NIC (from software, not physically!), letting Windows re-recongize it, and reinstalling TCP/IP. Voila! So I don’t know what was wrong, but reinstallation will probably work.

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