Fun ecto bug
Posted by Scott Laird Thu, 25 Aug 2005 11:21:26 GMT
It looks like Ecto has a hard time with my previous posting. Ecto completely locked up on me when I tried to edit the article after adding a few <typo:code> blocks. After that, Ecto wouldn't even start up right--it only showed a single article on the blog and refused to let me click anywhere on the list screen, although the menu worked.
I had to completely remove all of Ecto's application settings and cached blog entries, lower my saved article count back down to 20, and re-add my blog, and it's still acting weird. I sense a bug report in my near future.
Update: Fixed. Adriaan spent most of an hour digging through logs and found that Typo was sending the article date in the wrong format--it was using a string when it should have been a date field. That changed in Typo a couple days ago in an attempt to work around a bug with another editor; I reverted it back to its original behavior and now everything's fine. I take back everything bad that I ever implied about Ecto--it's working perfectly for me now, and it's great to be back in Ecto instead of MarsEdit (sorry Brent).
Actually, I spent half of that hour getting my network connection back up. My ISP had a great timing to decide to play yoyo with my online presence.
Anyway, the next version of ecto will be more friendly if someone ever plans to send dates as string instead of dateTime.iso8601 (but then again, what happened to specs and standards ;) ).