Just updating a website and wanted the Christmas hours panel to automatically hide themselves after the holiday season but got tripped up by this misleading compilation error.
A cautionary tale, always be careful with your DateTime manipulations (or how I showed the Internet I was an idiot)
Posted on: Friday, 12 December 2014 18:00
A couple of silly mistakes I made while working with `DateTime` object manipulations. Its a short read and hopefully you will remember my folly the next time you need to tweak your dates.
SOLVED: ASP.NET Identity 2 Throws “EntityType 'IdentityUserLogin' has no key defined” and friends
Posted on: Thursday, 11 December 2014 21:48
I just got double tricked by an asp.net website error but if you are seeing this error along with a couple more similar ones then I can help to make them go away…
Bootstrap 3 Fixed Footer Slide Panel
Posted on: Wednesday, 3 December 2014 17:28
While working on a new feature for a Chrome extension I’m building I created this sample which allows you to add in a slide up footer panel which has its content contained with a scrollbar.
SOLVED: 'System.Security.Principal.IIdentity' does not contain a definition for 'GetUserId'
Posted on: Tuesday, 18 November 2014 12:05
While following a tutorial I got the error that GetUserId() didn't exist. Right clicking to refactor the reference in didn’t come up with any suggestions. Luckily it wasn’t too tricky to solve…
WordPress Admin Plugin - Bulk Page Stub Creator v1.0 Released
Posted on: Wednesday, 1 October 2014 13:23
I have just released v1.0 of Bulk Page Stub Creator. It is a WordPress admin plugin that lets you bulk create page stubs by providing a batch of page titles and slugs.
It is a simple plugin; it gives you a text input form and on the first line you type the page title, on the second line you type the slug. Then you repeat the process for as many pages that you want to create.
When you press the Create page stubs page it will automatically create all of the stubs for you.
Read more information and download it at:
SOLVED: “Failed to process your item” error when uploading to Chrome Web Store
Posted on: Sunday, 28 September 2014 15:00
I just published my first extension on the Chrome Web Store but every time I tried to upload the finished article I kept getting the same error: “Failed to process your item”. This is how I solved it.
Easily extracting .nupkg files with WinRAR
Posted on: Thursday, 25 September 2014 11:32
I’ve just started doing some serious development with Orchard CMS and one of the best learning tools is to take other peoples modules, rip them apart and investigate their source code. The first hurdle I came across was being able to easily extract them with WinRAR.
Using the new Bootlint tool from Bootstrap as a bookmarklet
Posted on: Wednesday, 24 September 2014 23:45
Bootstrap have just released a new tool which lints your Bootstrap based websites and automatically advises you if you’re making any of many common Bootstrap usage mistakes. If you want to try this out straight away then read on.
Using Blogger.com Blogs On Windows Live Writer in 2014
Posted on: 23:26
I’ve just tried to pick up my blogging again and tried to get in a million different ways but ultimately kept seeing the error message “The username or password is incorrect. Please try again.” Here’s how I solved it.
IMPORTANT UPDATE #4
If you are arriving here in 2016 then it’s time to move on from Windows Live Writer. It was open sourced as a new project Open Live Writer. You should use this moving forward.
Google made special provisions to allow the old login methods to continue to work while this project was organised but moving forward you won’t be able to use Windows Live Writer with Blogger any more.
Their is a download link on the official website but here is a direct link that was working at the time of publication.
IMPORTANT UPDATE #3
01-June-2015 Scott has just tweeted to me that Windows Live Writer is working with Blogger again!
@rtpHarry fixed
— Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) June 1, 2015It looks like Google has re-enabled ClientLogin which is their proprietary auth mechanism and the only one that Windows Live Writer currently supports. My guess is that this is a temporary reprieve while Microsoft sort out the updated / OSS version Scott has been teasing.
I’ve tested it and at the moment you still need to follow the original tutorial which is below these updates to enable access for less secure apps. When I turned it off in Google Accounts and restarted WLW it stopped working for me.
IMPORTANT UPDATE #2
01-June-2015 At the moment you still cannot use Windows Live Writer with Blogger but it looks like we will get an updated build real soon:
Having issues with Windows Live Writer and Google’s Blogger? Google and Microsoft are working together for quick resolution. More info soon.
— Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) May 29, 2015IMPORTANT UPDATE
28-May-2015 At the moment you cannot use Windows Live Writer with Blogger.
Scott Hanselman has confirmed that Google have removed the ClientLogin endpoint which is what Windows Live Writer depended on to auth with:
@JasonBSteele Yep, we noticed. Google removed the ClientLogin endpoint. We'll need to add in OAuth. It's on the list. @robdolin
— Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) May 27, 2015The only good news I can give out at the moment is that Scott has been working with the team behind it in hopes to get the project open sourced. This would mean the community could fix issues like these. Hopefully the complete breakage of the application will push them into releasing a fix of some kind. I'll update here when I hear any more.
As it stands today any attempts to open, edit or publish posts via WLW will display this error message:
Problem
No matter what I did I kept getting the same error message:
“The username or password is incorrect. Please try again.”
Because I haven’t used blogger for a long time I had a vague memory that there was some kind of trick I had to do to get this working but Google searches were not helping me.
- Adding https at the start? Got me to the next screen but then the same error.
- Typing and retyping my password, checking it worked online, unticking the remember password box? Fruitless.
- Selecting MetaWeblog API and then trying various feed URLs gleamed from my view source of the blog? Not a scratch.
- Checking I didn’t have two factor authentication turned on? I didn’t according to my account.
- Enabling and then disabling two factor authentication? Still got me nowhere.
- Growling at the computer screen? Apparently pointless.
- Attempting to uninstall but at the last minute choosing a the repair option? No change
I was about to uninstall the whole thing, give it one last install and then lower myself to using the blogger.com web interface when…
Solution
In the end it turned out that all I had to do was enable access for “less secure apps” to my Google account.
After the myriad attempts above to login an email popped up in my inbox. Apparently Google had been helpfully protecting my account from being accessed by what it considers “less secure apps”.
If you haven’t received your email yet after try this then just go to this page:
Log in, select Enable and click Done:
I then had my blogger account set up in Windows Live Writer 2012 within minutes and wrote this post.
Now, I applaud Google for implementing protection like this but if there isn’t a way to make the error message returned actually helpful in diagnosing the problem then please can you get the email out to me tout suite next time! :)
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