XCode: “You have updates avail...

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...

Hey Look! A Gorge Tech Happy Hour!

For years, I’ve been trying to do things to bring the tech community of The Gorge together, and get them into the same room regularly with the non-tech people to answer casual questions, connect about...

Subdomains: Well, Everyone Else Is D...

I had a phone call today that made me really think about subdomains for the first time in a while. I’m working on a project that can basically be described as something of a social network for artists....

Wrestling ActiveResource Association...

I need to state up front that I don’t have a solution to this problem. Hopefully, I can iterate toward a solution- using this interim solution (discussed at the end). The basic problem that I’ve...

A Simple Git Rebase Workflow, Explai...

This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series Git WorkflowIn my current project, I’ve been trying to help my team understand Git. Recently, we’ve been having problems with broken commits, losses of...

How Gowalla saved me $300 (and convi...

I’ve tried a couple location-based social networks and Gowalla was the best I found. It had good imagery, and an non-confrontational social gaming aesthetic (you picked up and dropped off things, instead of...