Archive for September, 2006

September 30th, 2006

Buy stuff with my name on it!

Today I added a whole bunch of cafepress and zazzle products with my site logotype on it.

Buttons, magnets, t-shirts, a bbq apron, and even a thong.

Get your ianring.com merch today! It's on the home page for now.

September 27th, 2006

I quit my job at the Speakeasy

Today I quit my job working as a bouncer at a speakeasy.

I never really worked as a bouncer. It was a joke I've shared with my daughter for the past 2 years.

How would I explain to a cute little 2 year old girl what I do for a living? Would she, whose ...

September 26th, 2006

Canonical AJAX almost stumps Ian

Today I was consulted to debug a rather nasty bit of AJAX - a paging script that lives within Community Server. The problem appeared spontaneously on a bunch of sites where we applied a new ISAPI Rewrite rule: one that finds any instances of "default.aspx" and scrubs them out via redirection.

Why ...

September 25th, 2006

Debugging the monolith

So, today I was working on a bunch of beta stuff for a Yahoo API that's coming out, and found an XML well-formedness error in their feed. I hate to seem uppity, but it felt good! In your FACE, Yahoo!It's like, there's Yahoo this huge megalithic company and there's me, and ...