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Fixing duplicate “login” keychains on a MacBook
Once in a while I run into silly problems — typically, software-related problems — that soak up a great deal of time. In the hopes of saving someone else pain and aggravation I’ve dedicated a blog...
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The identity ‘iPhone Developer: Foo’ doesn’t match any valid...
Great title, eh? Surprise: this is another entry in stupid stupid stupid, and like the previous one, this too is brought to you by Apple. The problem and symptoms: you’re trying to rebuild an iPhone...
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New from Apple: iMagicExpandingBattery
Katrin had some odd problems with her Macbook last week. The mouse button on the trackpad stopped working and the machine began locking up intermittently. I dug around for an hour or so trying to...
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Facebook User IDs are BigInts in PostgreSQL
We’ve recently been working on integrating 5 Blocks Out with Facebook, starting with making it easy to sign up via Facebook Connect. I stumbled across a bug related to this today that might impact...
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Ubuntu upgrade breaks RMagick on Ruby Enterprise Edition
I recently upgraded the server running 5 Blocks Out from Ubuntu version 8.0.4 to 10.04. Somewhere along the way the binding between the rmagick gem and the underlying imagemagick libraries broke,...
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The case of the phantom 404s
Sometimes tracking down 404 errors (HTTP “Resource not found”) on a web site is easy to do, but I ran into a tricky case yesterday that took me the better part of the afternoon to resolve. I want to...
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ActionController::RoutingError (undefined method ‘sub’ for nil:NilClass)
Or, “Man I’m glad Ruby on Rails is an open source framework”. Ruby on Rails normally provides pretty good debugging information for dealing with errors, but I ran into an odd error today that had no...
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Online Security and Corporate Honesty
In the past two days I’ve received 12 emails from various online services about the Heartbleed bug and what I should do to protect myself. I wonder when the other 120 online services I subscribe to...
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