A Farewell To Facebook, Reason #1: Friends

This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series A Farewell To FacebookRecently, I deleted my Facebook account. Deleted. Completely.1 When I did this, many friends and family expressed surprise, sometimes outright frustration, that I would leave Facebook. According to them, there were a number of reason I should not have left, but primary among them was that I’d be eliminating that important way to communicate with me...

Censorship

Dear friends, I just emailed Congress to urge them to oppose the Internet Blacklist Legislation, known as the PROTECT-IP Act in the Senate and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House. This legislation seeks to give the executive branch power to conduct slash-and-burn campaigns against websites that allegedly host – or even link to – content that infringes on intellectual property rights. That would...

Today, I Bought an iPad

I remember this day 25+ years ago, when my mother came home with it. It was a box with a silver keyboard looking thing that said “TI 99/4a.” That big, blocky hulk of a purchase that was one of the best decisions of my mother’s parenthood. She wasn’t always the best role model, my mother, but this decision was superb. It came with intent, a reason: She told us that she couldn’t afford...

The Ever-Deployable Github Workflow

This entry is part 2 of 3 in the series Git WorkflowScott Chacon from Github wrote a post describing the workflow that Github uses internally to manage projects, and I found that it cleared some issue up for some projects that I’ve been working on, specifically, how to keep your project deployable. So, why don’t we use git-flow at GitHub? Well, the main issue is that we deploy all the time. The git-flow...

XCode: “You have updates available for other accounts”

If you are unlucky enough to have installed XCode from the Developer Network, instead of the new Mac App Store, you may be seeing this message: You have updates available for other accounts. This may be followed by either an actual account email address, or by a generic message saying to “sign into the account you used to purchase it.” Either way, it’s a problem. You can’t install or update...