“There’s always the hope that if you sit and watch for long enough, the beachball will vanish and the thing it interrupted will return.” — xkcd #961 (alt-text)
Beware the Manipulators
07
Aug
“In addition to watching out for deliberate evil, some people are just naturally awful. If you haven’t already, you’ll probably encounter a master manipulator who can plant ideas in your mind without you really ever realizing it. They’ll find ways to twist a situation so it’s always your fault, convince you to do what they want by using pity, and never let the attention in the room shift away from them. Sometimes you’ll even know you’re being manipulated and but you’d rather give the person what they want rather than exerting the energy necessary to fight them. If you can recognize these tactics, you can try to shut them down or just get as far away as possible. People who don’t know they’re evil because the behavior comes naturally are best avoided at all costs—but you can only do that if you can identify how they act.”
How To Use Your Dark Side For Good – lifehacker
Foresight…
05
Jul
“I think there’s a world market for about five computers.” — attr. Thomas J. Watson (Chairman of the Board, IBM), 1943
iMurphyCalc Source Code Published
04
Jun
You can now find the entirety of iMurphyCalc’s source code over at Github. While it’s not what I’d call the “cleanest” code, it does demonstrate that I can code fast and keep things simple without wasting time.
Enjoy!
Conversations and Solitude
19
Apr
Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.
– unknown
The world is moving so fast
31
Mar
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it. — E. Hubbard
iOS Application Company Name…
12
Mar
This is ridiculous. Since the release of iMurphyCalc on the App Store I’ve been banging my head against every wall possible trying to find where the company name is set. The reason for the last two updates to the application were specifically to try and fix the problem of the application being labeled as a product of “Layonara Studios LLC” (which is now a defunct and non-existant company that I used to be a part of).
Places I’ve searched (and removed) for all instances of the string “Layonara Studios LLC”:
- The application sources themselves.
- The Xcode project files.
- Every single place on Apple’s plethora of websites/sub-domains where I have an account.
- My contact in the AddressBook.app
Even after all that, I did find one last place where there was an instance of that string: ~/Library/Preferences/AddressBookMe.plist.
So, after ensuring that the AddressBook.app was closed, I manually edited the file and replaced the string.
Let’s see if this next update (1.0.3) will solve the problem.
Update May 16th, 2011
Ultimately the problem could only be solved by Apple Support changing the Company to my real name. I’ve, because of this, realized at least one reason why this task is so difficult; fraud prevention. While it’s not what I’d call a silver bullet for the case of fraud prevention, it is a strong deterrent. iMurphyCalc is finally fully attributed to me.
Reverting a Subversion commit…
06
Feb
svn merge -r N:N-1 .
svn commit -m "reverting commit N"
In the above, “N” is a revision number and “N-1″ is the revision number minus one… for example; to revert commit 2164…
svn merge -r 2164:2163 .