SOLVED: “CS1026: ) expected” compilation error

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)

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

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

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'

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

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:

• http://articles.runtings.co.uk/p/bulk-page-stub-creator-wordpress.html

SOLVED: “Failed to process your item” error when uploading to Chrome Web Store

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

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.