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Rants, Ravings and Tech Stuff

Just about every day one of the following happens:

  1. I have something to rant about.
  2. I spent a good deal of time trying to solve some problem (tech, not personal).
  3. I have an idea but nobody to share it with. :(

Although #1 and #3 happen from time to time #2 seems to be the most frequent of the three.  Usually I'll Google the issue, find a hit right away where someone has asked the exact same question only to find that there's no resolution in the forum thread.  What's worse is that sometimes these posters come back to say "Hey I figured it out!  Thanks everyone!" without posting their solution.  I spend the next few minutes imagining what these people look like, so I can make a hair voodoo doll of them.  After I'm content with the likeness I keep plugging away at the problem until I have it solved.  There's usually a lot of wheel-spinning in this process.

I'm hoping that this blog--once I actually have some substantial content--will save others the trouble of having to collect hair from their coworker's desks to create a doll that probably won't work anyway.

This is a work in progress. ;)  I'm building the blog functionality as I go so archives, tag clouds, category lists, RSS and user comments are to come.

Some of my e-Scribbles. Nothing fancy, but a start.

Mon Mar 21, 2011Indexing Service - Blank or Null Characterization Field
Can't get the characterization field to pull when querying Indexing Service? Angry enough to kill a basket of kittens over it? Put down the basket. This post may help...
Wed Jan 19, 2011Umbraco CMS - Published Pages are Blank
Published pages in Umbraco are coming out completely blank.
Wed Jan 19, 2011Umbraco CMS - Editing in Canvas
Just in case you broke your "Edit in Canvas" functionality as I did, here's what you need to fix it.