November
20
2008
Written by: hipsterdoofus at 2:19 pm in the Web Development category.
Some links to remember and also a post to push the previous one down the page. The <pre&rt; tag isn’t being nice with the template I’m using and I don’t have time to fix it at the moment.
November
20
2008
Written by: hipsterdoofus at 1:20 pm in the Web Development category.
While experimenting with the wiki component in one of my portals today, I received an error when trying to add a post via the FCK editor, Could not load type 'DotNetNuke.HtmlEditor.FckHtmlEditorProvider.fckStyles'. More specifically:
[HttpException]: Could not load type 'DotNetNuke.HtmlEditor.FckHtmlEditorProvider.fckStyles'.
at System.Web.UI.TemplateParser.GetType(String typeName, Boolean ignoreCase, Boolean throwOnError)
at System.Web.UI.TemplateParser.ProcessInheritsAttribute(String baseTypeName, String codeFileBaseTypeName, String src, Assembly assembly)
at System.Web.UI.TemplateParser.PostProcessMainDirectiveAttributes(IDictionary parseData)
[HttpParseException]: Could not load type 'DotNetNuke.HtmlEditor.FckHtmlEditorProvider.fckStyles'.
at System.Web.UI.TemplateParser.ProcessException(Exception ex)
at System.Web.UI.TemplateParser.ParseStringInternal(String text, Encoding fileEncoding)
at System.Web.UI.TemplateParser.ParseString(String text, VirtualPath virtualPath, Encoding fileEncoding)
[HttpParseException]: Could not load type 'DotNetNuke.HtmlEditor.FckHtmlEditorProvider.fckStyles'.
at System.Web.UI.TemplateParser.ParseString(String text, VirtualPath virtualPath, Encoding fileEncoding)
at System.Web.UI.TemplateParser.ParseReader(StreamReader reader, VirtualPath virtualPath)
at System.Web.UI.TemplateParser.ParseFile(String physicalPath, VirtualPath virtualPath)
at System.Web.UI.TemplateParser.ParseInternal()
at System.Web.UI.TemplateParser.Parse()
at System.Web.UI.TemplateParser.Parse(ICollection referencedAssemblies, VirtualPath virtualPath)
at System.Web.Compilation.BaseTemplateBuildProvider.get_CodeCompilerType()
at System.Web.Compilation.BuildProvider.GetCompilerTypeFromBuildProvider(BuildProvider buildProvider)
at System.Web.Compilation.BuildProvidersCompiler.ProcessBuildProviders()
at System.Web.Compilation.BuildProvidersCompiler.PerformBuild()
at System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager.CompileWebFile(VirtualPath virtualPath)
at System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager.GetVPathBuildResultInternal(VirtualPath virtualPath, Boolean noBuild, Boolean allowCrossApp, Boolean allowBuildInPrecompile)
at System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager.GetVPathBuildResultWithNoAssert(HttpContext context, VirtualPath virtualPath, Boolean noBuild, Boolean allowCrossApp, Boolean allowBuildInPrecompile)
at System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager.GetVirtualPathObjectFactory(VirtualPath virtualPath, HttpContext context, Boolean allowCrossApp, Boolean noAssert)
at System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager.CreateInstanceFromVirtualPath(VirtualPath virtualPath, Type requiredBaseType, HttpContext context, Boolean allowCrossApp, Boolean noAssert)
at System.Web.UI.PageHandlerFactory.GetHandlerHelper(HttpContext context, String requestType, VirtualPath virtualPath, String physicalPath)
at System.Web.UI.PageHandlerFactory.System.Web.IHttpHandlerFactory2.GetHandler(HttpContext context, String requestType, VirtualPath virtualPath, String physicalPath)
at System.Web.HttpApplication.MapHttpHandler(HttpContext context, String requestType, VirtualPath path, String pathTranslated, Boolean useAppConfig)
at System.Web.HttpApplication.MapHandlerExecutionStep.System.Web.HttpApplication.IExecutionStep.Execute()
at System.Web.HttpApplication.ExecuteStep(IExecutionStep step, Boolean& completedSynchronously)
After messing around with it for a while, I found a workable and easy solution on the DNN forums which amounted to “deleting the fck folder completly from the providers/htmleditorproviders folder and replacing it with the fck folder from the install package.”
November
7
2008
Written by: hipsterdoofus at 2:40 pm in the Web Development category.
I was just planning on doing a simple blog post. Unfortunately, I wanted to reference a previous post and made the discovery that in designing my blog layout, I didn’t account for a way to access past posts. A huge oversight, it seems - a rookie mistake. Which got me to thinking that I needed to make a quick fix to the blog to rectify the situation. Except that there’s no easy solution afforded by the Blogger (classic) template that I’m currently using. So instead of the simple post that I was planning on making, I’m writing this bitchy one to complain about Blogger and once again consider moving this whole damn thing over to WordPress. I am (supposed to be) a web developer after all.
Tags: Blogger, WordPress
May
26
2008
Written by: hipsterdoofus at 3:42 pm in the Web Development category.
Now that I’ve had a chance to better dig into how WordPress works, I’m very impressed by the versatility it provides out of the box to anyone who choses to use it. By contrast, Blogger is proving feature-deficient and if it wasn’t for my long history using it, I would’ve pitched it by now for another system. It’s reminiscent of how Moofie describes his relationship with the Star Wars series - dysfunctional in how it lures us back after a cooling off period, hoping that this time around, things will work out better.
Labels: “Web Development”, Blogger, WordPress
Tags: Blogger, WordPress
May
26
2008
Written by: hipsterdoofus at 3:33 pm in the Web Development category.
This past week I had an inspiring experience attending the WebVisions 2008 conference that was here in Portland. WebVisions has been around for eight years now and though I’ve attended before, this is the first time that I’ve felt it was directly applicable to my career. Though I’ve been working on web sites for several years this is the first time I’ve gone in thinking of myself as a web developer. As such, I felt an acute interest in understanding where the industry is going. Previous WebVisions have always conveyed a large amount of conceptual information about trends in web design and directions that it might be headed. Looking back at information I gleaned from previous conferences, I’m struck by how much of what was talked about years ago is now accepted practice. I’d like to do a more comprehensive review of my experience but for now a short summary will have to suffice. Below are the sessions I attended over the two days:
- Best Practices for Permission-Based Email Communication, Speaker: Mark Wyner - The seminar most applicable to my current projects at work. I learned afterwards that Mark is a former colleague of one of my other friends which is an interesting tidbit for future networking.
- The Experience Economy and Hybrid Desktop-Internet Applications, Speaker: Kevin Hoyt
- WORKSHOP: Type Class, Speaker: Roger Black - I had hoped for a more structured curriculum in this workshop and was disappointed that it didn’t cover more general concepts of typography for either print or the web. I think I might’ve benefited with a broader knowledge-base going in as it didn’t seem oriented to a novice.
- KEYNOTE: Is Print Dead? How Digital Media is Changing the Face of Publishing, Speaker: Lynne d Johnson (FastCompany.com) - Lynne was an engaging moderator for what turned into a facilitated discussion among the attendants but I was hoping for more of a considered presentation of her views of how digital media was changing publishing.
- Data Portability, Privacy and Identity: Welcome to the Open Web, Speaker: Scott Kveton
- PANEL: Open Source, Speakers: Deborah Bryant, Ward Cunningham, Brian Jamison, Josh Bancroft - This was way over my head. I cut out midway to catch the end of…
- The Language of Interaction, Speaker: Bill DeRouchey - I’d seen a similar presentation a few years previous and it’s absolutely engaging.
- From Idea to Implementation and Beyond: Getting Started with Rails, Speaker: Jim Meyer
- Convergence 2.0: The Seamless User Experience, Speaker: Tjeerd Hoek
- KEYNOTE: Overcoming Chaos: Designing the Future Web, Speaker: Jeffrey Veen
Labels: “Web Development”, WebVisions
April
24
2008
Written by: hipsterdoofus at 2:27 pm in the Web Development category.
A recent project has gotten me researching readability issues and I wanted to note this with regards to web readability, Light text on dark background vs. readability | 456 Berea Street
Tags: notes
April
24
2008
Written by: hipsterdoofus at 1:45 pm in the Web Development category.
Smashing Magazine is proving a treasure trove of print and web design tips and examples. The latest to catch my eye make reference to:
Tags: notes, tips, typography, writing
April
19
2008
Written by: hipsterdoofus at 5:51 pm in the Print category.
The first in what might hopefully be some exercises in typography. I have much to learn, and I can only learn by doing. The quote came by way of Quotations Page, Quote of the Day.
Tags: typography
April
2
2008
Written by: hipsterdoofus at 2:13 pm in the Web Development category.
Something for me to read: The Highly Extensible CSS Interface. I’ve been meaning to spend more time learning additional web development technologies and this link seems along those lines.
Tags: css, notes, programming
March
26
2008
Written by: hipsterdoofus at 3:59 pm in the Web Development category.
Note to myself about how to programmatically reference asp.net controls nested in a repeater (among other) web control, In Search Of ASP.Net Controls.
Specifically, I reference the “Finding Controls In Headers and Footers” section. There are descriptions of how to more generally use the FindControl method.
Tags: asp.net, notes, programming
