by David Orriss Jr | Dec 28, 2023 | HOA
For three years I was a member of the 3-person board for my HOA. Then I helped officially dissolve the HOA. I bought my house over 20 years ago.. admittedly I was rather naive about HOAs and the rhetoric about ‘protecting your property values’. But I had a...
by David Orriss Jr | Oct 25, 2020 | Apple, iOS, Operating Systems, watchOS
This past weekend I had to unpair and re-pair my Apple Watch after the most recent WatchOS 7 and iOS 14 updates. Applications would neither install or update. I can only presume something was failing in the handshake or certificate management that iOS and watchOS use...
by David Orriss Jr | Jan 15, 2017 | Apple, Telephony
A few days ago the iPhone celebrated its 10th anniversary. I was at T-Mobile when the iPhone was announced. Now mind you.. I had been – like many other Steve Jobs fans – been following news and rumors out of Apple for months: The various patents being...
by David Orriss Jr | Sep 21, 2015 | Mac OS X, Operating Systems
If you’re an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) user like me, you’re probably familiar with or at least have heard of an identd service. IdentD is simply a service that, when accessed on port 113 of a computer, returns a simple string that identifies you as a user....
by David Orriss Jr | Aug 11, 2015 | Java
While running builds I noticed the following warning from Maven.. XMLGregorianCalendarImpl is internal proprietary API and may be removed in a future release Rightfully so if you’re not using the correct convention for this.. type.setDate(new...
