Askeet! Diary - Day 4 & an Epiphany
January 8th, 2006
Tutorial 4 went fine. I kept having all these question marks show up on the reulsting page, and I couldn’t figure out where they were coming from. Since The tutorial didn’t take me much time, I decide to troubleshoot and figure it out.
It took no time at all to find the code around the question marks was, but it wasn’t immediately apparent where the mysterious question marks were. Right where I expected to find question marks, I found nothing! It turns out that the question marks were in the whitespace. I guess when I was copying and pasting from my web browser to my text editor there as some funky character encoding mismatch. All I had to do was delete the tabs and return and replace them to my liking.
AN EPIHPNAY
I’m really disappointed with myself for not seeing this sooner. I have a category of blog post called Ask Rick for all the random questions I get. I’m working on a question/answer database project called Askeet! Perhaps I should port all my Ask Rick blog posts to the the Askeet app. I’m sure you were able to draw this conclusion far sooner than stupid old me.