If you just updated to Xcode 3.2.5 and iOS SDK 4.2, you might find that your existing projects do not compile. This probably doesn't surprise you as it's been the way for every SDK update as far back as the beginning of time (at least in the Jobsian calendar). Thankfully, with Xcode 3.2.5, you can set your base SDK once and for all and it should work for all future releases.

But first things, first, here's the error I received while trying to compile one of the early projects from my iOS SDK workshop: "error: there is no SDK with the name or path 'iphoneos4.1'"

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Plagued with random Bus Errors in Python on my Tiger install, and wanting to upgrade to Python 2.5.1 (as Python 2.5 is not supported by Google App Engine and the SDK has errors in it that won't be fixed), I decided to upgrade to Leopard again.

I had initially upgraded right after Leopard was released, at the end of last year, only to experience a myriad of problems like keyboard freezes (and here). I was so disenchanted that I wrote posts with titles like Leopard is tarnishing the reputation of OS X and Leopard: Great eye candy, pity the keyboard doesn’t always work before giving up and downgrading to Tiger.

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I just upgraded the blog from WordPress 2.5 RC1 to the release version. Do let me know if you notice anything weird.