Eddie's Fancy

It was a rainy day. A really, really rainy day. And the wife was out giving at talk at UH. So far after eating a bowl of cereal while watching Farscape I decided to design some business cards. It seemed the thing to do at the time.

Googling around for various card LaTex templates I finally found on adapted by John Vernaleo that was easy to modify and looked nice. It stole the idea of including a GPG fingerprint from another template I found included it on the bottom the card.

I spent sometime sitting on the couch browsing various designs and decided a logo was needed in the upper left corner to spruce thing up a bit. I tried my initials but they it seemed a bit plain. When my wife came home I asked how to write in initials in Bengali and came up with a simple design in The Gimp.

I printed a test page and the anti-aliasing on the fonts used for the logo didn’t translate very well. What I needed was a log in encapsulated postscript that used an outline font so it would print correctly at the small scale used for the card. Time for a new tool! Back to Google, I decided to try my hand at Inkscape. Not too shappy.

Export as eps and include in the file and…it looks like crap. I need to left align the logo but the table environment used to center the text didn’t work quite like I wanted. After much poking around I came across a suitable solution; a three column table with expanding space on the left and right, text in the center, and a three column spanning left-aligned top row with the logo. Not bad.

My hand-cut version weren’t quite straight enough but I had some Avery templates from a previous project. After a bit of adjusting I was able to fit them into the punch outs fairly cleanly. I considered making them two-sided, but I usually use the back of business cards for notes and decided to keep it empty. Not bad for a morning’s work.

Warner Brothers tries out DVDs on demand. http://ping.fm/bk0Al Interesting but $19.99 seems to be a bit steep.

Started packing for the big office move this weekend. I found a Wolverine Pez dispenser in one drawer.

My clipboard broke. Rebooting resolved but still, what the heck.

Arrgh. I love TeX, but I hate TeX. I love TeX, but I hate TeX. I love TeX, but I hate TeX. I love TeX, but I hate TeX.

Having fresh Polish sausage (with mustard) and pierogis. I should call Pete to tell him how good it is, but I’m too busy eating.

Ghiradelli milk chocolate with caramel filling. Awesome.

I finally uploaded my first iPhone application to the App Store but ran into a damn annoying Xcode bug in the process. When uploading the application binary I kept getting the following error message:

The binary you uploaded was invalid. The signature was invalid, or it was not signed with an Apple submission certificate.

The property certificates were installed on my development machine and mobileprovision.embedded was included in the distribution archive. After an hour or so of Googling and digging I found the source the error. Inside Xcode I had copied the Release configuration and created a new Distribution configuration and then changed the signing identity to my distribution certificate. However, even though it was updated in the GUI the project file was not updated correctly.

If you come across the same error, look in your [ProjectName].xcodeproj directory for the project.pbxproj file and open it in your favorite editor. Look for the Distribution section. My broken one looked like this:


C384C90C0F9939FA00E76E41 /* Distribution */ = {
isa = XCBuildConfiguration;
buildSettings = {
ARCHS = "$(ARCHS_STANDARD_32_BIT)";
CODE_SIGN_ENTITLEMENTS = "";
"CODE_SIGN_IDENTITY[sdk=iphoneos*]" = "iPhone Distribution: Edward McCreary";
GCC_C_LANGUAGE_STANDARD = c99;
GCC_WARN_ABOUT_RETURN_TYPE = YES;
GCC_WARN_UNUSED_VARIABLE = YES;
PREBINDING = NO;
"PROVISIONING_PROFILE[sdk=iphoneos*]" = "F00D3778-32B2-4550-9FCE-1A4090344400";
SDKROOT = iphoneos2.2.1;
};
name = Distribution;
};
C384C90D0F9939FA00E76E41 /* Distribution */ = {
isa = XCBuildConfiguration;
buildSettings = {
ALWAYS_SEARCH_USER_PATHS = NO;
CODE_SIGN_IDENTITY = "iPhone Developer: Edward McCreary";
"CODE_SIGN_IDENTITY[sdk=iphoneos*]" = "iPhone Developer: Edward McCreary";
COPY_PHASE_STRIP = YES;
GCC_PRECOMPILE_PREFIX_HEADER = YES;
GCC_PREFIX_HEADER = GenPass_Prefix.pch;
INFOPLIST_FILE = Info.plist;
PRODUCT_NAME = GenPass;
PROVISIONING_PROFILE = "DB12BCA7-FE72-42CA-9C2B-612F76619788";
"PROVISIONING_PROFILE[sdk=iphoneos*]" = "DB12BCA7-FE72-42CA-9C2B-612F76619788";
};
name = Distribution;
};


You can see the signing identity and provisioning profile are incorrect in the second section. Edit it to match the first section, rebuild, and you should be good to go. The final one looked like this:


C384C90C0F9939FA00E76E41 /* Distribution */ = {
isa = XCBuildConfiguration;
buildSettings = {
ARCHS = "$(ARCHS_STANDARD_32_BIT)";
CODE_SIGN_ENTITLEMENTS = "";
"CODE_SIGN_IDENTITY[sdk=iphoneos*]" = "iPhone Distribution: Edward McCreary";
GCC_C_LANGUAGE_STANDARD = c99;
GCC_WARN_ABOUT_RETURN_TYPE = YES;
GCC_WARN_UNUSED_VARIABLE = YES;
PREBINDING = NO;
"PROVISIONING_PROFILE[sdk=iphoneos*]" = "F00D3778-32B2-4550-9FCE-1A4090344400";
SDKROOT = iphoneos2.2.1;
};
name = Distribution;
};
C384C90D0F9939FA00E76E41 /* Distribution */ = {
isa = XCBuildConfiguration;
buildSettings = {
ALWAYS_SEARCH_USER_PATHS = NO;
CODE_SIGN_IDENTITY = "iPhone Distribution: Edward McCreary";
"CODE_SIGN_IDENTITY[sdk=iphoneos*]" = "iPhone Distribution: Edward McCreary";
COPY_PHASE_STRIP = YES;
GCC_PRECOMPILE_PREFIX_HEADER = YES;
GCC_PREFIX_HEADER = GenPass_Prefix.pch;
INFOPLIST_FILE = Info.plist;
PRODUCT_NAME = GenPass;
PROVISIONING_PROFILE = "F00D3778-32B2-4550-9FCE-1A4090344400";
"PROVISIONING_PROFILE[sdk=iphoneos*]" = "F00D3778-32B2-4550-9FCE-1A4090344400";
};
name = Distribution;
};


guids changed to protect the innocent

After spending two hours wrestling with a bug in Xcode I finally submitted my first app to the iPhone store. Now we wait…

Consider migrating from svn to git for all my scm needs.

Waiting for Leila…time for a cleaning, oh boy!

Arrrgh, there’s doesn’t seem to be a way to set the cursor position in a UITextField. Damn you Jobs!

I swear I hear a cow outside my window. My 9th floor window.

Gotta screw in a tire, waiting to get it fixed. Joy.

Back from Austin, about to have of favorite pizza.