If you let XCode's code completion create your switch statement for you, you might run into this little gotcha.

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I recently ran into a bug with the insertion point and selection magnifying glasses malfunctioning on a UITextView in a simple UIView that I had set up using Interface Builder.

The symptoms were that the touch-and-hold insertion point magnifying glass would appear and work properly only the first time it was used. It would then add some visual corruption to the text view and refuse to appear on subsequent touch-and-holds. The selection magnifying glass would work and, after using it, the insertion point magnifying glass would also work (but again, just once).

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I love Yahoo! Pipes. It has saved my butt on several occasions when I've needed to transform feeds. However, I think I broke it (for myself, at least) by customizing the URL for my pipes.

When you do that, you lose the ability to refer to your pipes using the yahooapis.com domain and thus you cannot load your data from Flash. There doesn't seem to be a way to revert to non-customized URLs either once you've made the switch.

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Update: They're on it! :) In the meanwhile, the suggested workaround is to add debug=True to your template.render() methods (pass it as the third argument, i.e., after the context).

Update: As of 2.30pm (when I last checked), the app appears to be working again. I've made no changes whatsoever.

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I ran into a sneaky little bug when working locally with the Google App Engine Development Web Server and using the Mail API: sending email begins to fail if you change the source code of the class or module that contains the Mail API calls.

The actual error you get is: SystemErrorParent module 'email' not loaded.
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