Noticed something strange after wrapping up a post on this blog the other day. After clicking on the “Publish Post” button on the “New Post==>Write a Post” page the page displayed a confirmation message as well as a link to view the new post. So far, this was expected. The weird thing I noticed was that, in addition to the in-page confirmation, the main call-to-action – the “Publish Post” button was still enabled on the page. So I asked myself the question, “what happens if I click on this button?”

Here’s what happens end-to-end:

1. Here is a sample test post I typed up to capture this experience. Step 1 is clicking on the “Publish Post” call to action.  

2. The confirmation is this page. As can be seen, the “Publish Post” button in the bottom right corner is still visible and enabled. 

3. I opened up a new browser tab and visited the main blog page: http://azadzahoory.com. As can be seen below, the recently completed post is shown at the top. 

4. Going back to the new post confirmation page, I’m tempted to click on the “Publish Post” button one more time to see what would happen. Well, wouldn’t you know it, it publishes the post again!

5. Back to http://azadzahoory.com we go, and we see this ridiculousness:

What should WordPress.com do on this confirmation page? Simply put, the “Publish Post” button needs to be removed (along with the “tags” field in the bottom left) after a post has been published. 

And now, I will click on “Publish Post”. <click>

Noticed some weird and unexpected behavior when playing around with Facebook Places and Map view of all the places I’ve been to. Currently, on my timeline, I don’t see any Places-type posts. However, the map submodule on my timeline looks like this:

Right off the bat, you can tell something is wrong for two reasons. 
1. If I had at least one place, it would be shown in the sub-module view, instead of the generic world map that is shown.
2. It incorrectly says that I have 13 places when I know I have a total of ZERO on my timeline.

So, when I click on the sub-module, I am taken to the Map view and I see this: 

Now, this view is how I expect it to be. Zero places just like I thought. So why the discrepancy between the two views?

Let’s try an experiment. Why don’t I add a place I’ve been to?

Now, the Places sub-module in the Timeline view looks like:

So what happened was that the count of 13 was incremented to 14 because I added a place. OK, now what does the Map view look like?

This is expected. Now, I’ve been to one place. So what would happen if I were to delete this place from my timeline?

Here’s where we can see where the strangeness and the bug start to manifest. In the Map submodule on the Timeline page, I would expect the count to go back to 13 — as it was when we started this exercise, but NO! It is still at the new number of 14!!

And when I go an check the Map view, the count is again zero. 

So to summarize, the main Map view works just fine, but the Map submodule in the Timeline view is broken because it does not decrement the counter after you have deleted a place from your timeline.