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this afternoon, i spent some time between classes working on my web apps assignment, by the end i had my writing functions, some basic layout, xml and asp files ready and working. I planned to wait until i came home tonight to get the reading and tweet printing functions working, then work ont he logins.

When i got home tonight, i found that my page would no longer write to my xml file, and in fact seemingly took no action whatsoever when my button was pressed. I spent hours trying to remedy this problem, but in the end decided to start anew, using the example given to us in class, and adapting it. At first even the example did not behave as it should, but when it finally did, i saved a copy as backup, to return to in case the same problem occurred.

Sure enough, at around 11:30pm some additions i had made to one of my copies seemed to have stopped it from working, so, i removed them, but still nothing. Next i returned to my backup, and opened it in my browser… WTF! Nothing, no errors, but also no script, nothing new in the xml, no changes to the text areas, no alerts. So once again I’m stuck with a seemingly static webpage, and no idea as to how to make it work, or even why these intermittent problems are occuring.