You’ve probably heard by now about the $23,148,855,308,184,500 (23 quadrillion) charges that some people saw on their Visa balances recently. But here’s a thought that actually applies to you: “Only Notice Large Glitches Probably more offensive is that a glitch happened at all, large or small. It could have just as easily been $2.31 in…Continue Reading…

I’d classify this as something like a phishing scam. Here’s how it works. One of your buddies sends you a bit.ly link. For example, http:// bit.ly/ jyDTm (spaces added). Don’t go there unless you know what you’re doing. This is the potentially-dangerous page that attempts to steal your AIM password. When you click the link,…Continue Reading…

I just saw a program on TV that said scientists are puzzled about the Coelacanth, a creature they thought was extinct. It has been found to be alive in the deep sea. They compared this to dinosaurs, saying that this discovery was even more surprising than if a dinosaur walked out of the woods. Well,…Continue Reading…

It’s surprisingly hard to find these defined anywhere, so here they are. SVN Letter Codes U Working file was updated G Changes on the repo were automatically merged into the working copy M Working copy is modified C This file conflicts with the version in the repo (see Conflicts below) ? This file is not…Continue Reading…

For the iPhone programmers out there: If you copy a Localizable.strings file from one project to another and it turns into gibberish (lots of question marks), change the File Encoding to Unicode (UTF-16). Also, if you’re using Core Location and you get an error about CLLocationManagerDelegate not being found, add this line to your ProjectName_Prefix.pch…Continue Reading…

I’m here in San Francisco for the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference. Lots of stuff is hidden behind an NDA, but the keynote is public, as are my photos of the preparations around Moscone West, the convention center where the conference will be held. Pre WWDC 09