Eddie's Fancy

I’ve been meaning to pick up the first book in this series for a while. I think I read about in relation to The Dresden Files as a series you may also like. Sharon let me borrow a collection of short stories that had a Simon R. Green story in it and I enjoyed it, so off to Half-Price Books.

A good read, not as good as the Dresden series, but worth following up.

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;
};


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Ugh, I need a nap. The great thing about having a new Harry Dresden book to read, is that there’s a new Harry Dresden book to read. The downside is that I can’t help staying up until the wee hours of the morning to finish reading it. And I’m not 15 anymore, I pay the price the next day.

As expected, a great read, but I feel a bit sorry for Harry. Not many things worked out for him this time around.

While waiting for the new Thursday Next book thanks to Sharon I decided to start the Nursery Crimes series. Humpty Dumpty has had a great fall and D.I. Jack Spratt is on the case.

A great pastiche of hard-boiled (ahem) detective novels, nursery crimes, and Fforde’s particular brand of humor. It was great fun, too bad it looks like he’s going to stop at three books.

Yeah, still knocking through the Repairman Jack series. They’re good adventure books.

The third and so far last novel in the The Tales of the Continuing Time series, I read this shortly after The Long Run because, well, I felt like it. This is the first time I’ve read it since first picking it up and the only time I read it in order. Still great, much recommended.

I read Daniel Keyes Moran’s books in backwards order many years ago starting with The Last Dancer. Unfortunately he stop writing sci-fi a while back, much to my disappointment. On the plus side, he put his fiction online for us to enjoy. I re-read this while sick in India, it was as great as I remembered it being.

The world needs more Trent the Uncatchable books.

Another great book I’m sorry to so long to read. This was something I bought with the $50 gift certificate for ebooks when I bought my Sony Reader, the only time I bought ebooks. Very well paced and a fascinating life, though there wasn’t as much gratuitous sex and decadence as rumor would lead you to believe.

Way, way behind on books…

I’ve been meaning to read World War Z for about a year now. I’ve been trolling Half-Price for a copy but never lucked out, so I decided to break down and pay full price. I’m sorry I waited so long.

A great read, told as a series of interviews years after the Zombie War. Surprisingly compelling and extraordinarily detailed. And written by Max Brooks, son of Mel Brooks. Who knew.

Finally, the sequel to “The Atrocity Archives” has been released in the US. I loved the first book and this one is as good. This one was much more similar to James Bond than the earlier book, but it wasn’t over done.

A great read for a geeky book lover.

This is cool, I can send a tweet and have it update my facebook status automatically.

I also made a few tweaks to the website during lunch, sorry for any broken links.

I hadn’t ready any Michael Chabon yet, although I’ve heard about “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay”. I saw “Yiddish…” on the shelf and happen to be in the mood for a good alternate-history detective mystery so I picked it up. I then blasted through it in a day and a half. I’m a big fan of Raymond Chandler style detective fiction and this hit the spot with a nice genre background and yiddish humor.

The rest of his stuff is definitely going into the queue.

I really wanted to read Charlie Stross’ new book inspired by Heinlein’s later work, but couldn’t bring myself to pay the hardback price. Half-Price came to my rescue and even had an edition with the nicer, British cover.

A fun read, but perhaps not has good as some of his other books. I’m glad to see The Jennifer Morgue is finally out in the states, time to troll the bookstores again.

I’ve really enjoyed the books by John Scalzi I’ve read so far, this one is a young adult style tale telling a parallel story to The Last Colony. It was enjoyable, but since I’ve already read The Last Colony it was a bit unsatisfying. Still, it was a good read.

I’ve been looking for the middle book of Kim Newman’s Dracula series for years, even breaking down to read book three because I couldn’t wait any longer.

Over Thanksgiving we were up in the Northeast and I ended up killing some time in a small used bookstore in Newark, Delaware. I was browsing the stacks when I passed the horror section only to do a double take. And there in the corner was a copy of this. Yes!

I read it in two sessions, I would have finished it in one if I had the time. Maybe not quite as good as the first in the series, but I still enjoyed the heck out of it. I just wish Newman’s books weren’t so hard to find here in the states. I’ve loaded up some of his short fiction on my Sony Reader, that will have to do for now.