Sins of PowerPoint

I was attending the IEEE VS Games 09 conference earlier this week in Coventry. For the most part, the conference was good, and I will probably write more about it later. However, some presentations were fairly poor, usually because of the usual reasons:

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Zotero 1.5 sync: tag too long

I had been awaiting the Zotero synchronization functionality with great anticipation, so that I can easily share my citation library between home and work. I recently downloaded the first beta version of Zotero 1.5, which supports sync, and got it up and running.

For the most part, the library sharing is great (kudos Zotero dudes!)… but I hit one frustrating problem recently. When attempting to synchronize my library with the server, it failed and complained of this error:

“Tag ‘…’ is too long”

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