Ugh, i've had a day of trying to organise my life, and embarking on a mission of finding the right calendar do just that!

iCal has infuriated me for a while. I kept my mind open for too long though, thinking that it was my problem for not knowing how to use it. Being careful not to form a closed opinion until I investigated all angles. Well now, today, I did just that. The conclusion is that it still sucks, only for more reasons than I thought, ha!

Background:

Today the urgency for organising my life came from my increasing running schedule. I'm an avid runner, and i've been meaning to arrange my training schedule in advance for a while. The alternative was to keep having the scattered mentality of "am I or aren't I going to train today?". That just wasn't cutting it. Having a schedule means training becomes more rigid, it forces you out of bed (Runners digression alert: this doesn't mean you have to stick to it religiously. More on that another time). It also means there's less chance of training conflicts that arise during the week.

If I was interviewing candidates for iOS development, I'd ask the following key reminders as questions. These are some very commonly abused concepts. Some of them are explained well in the Apple docs, some of them aren't, which is probably why abuse is fuelled.

I didn't want to create a list with 10, or 5, or any other number in the title, which is kind of becoming trendy in blogcamp. The number of reminders below shouldn't be restricted by some trendy sounding blog title. I also try not to have any negativity when giving advice, which is why this isn't a "DON'T" list. There's too much of that already from socially inept programmers. This is a list of what TO DO, of what is best either for Objective-C, or OO concepts in general. I want to add to this list over time.

Every now and then, it's nice to give technology a break

This morning when I came out of the shower I was greeted to this note that my girlfriend left on my laptop:

Do you want to delete your Facebook or Google+ account? Chances are that you're not going to do it right.

For whatever reason people are always asking me if your Facebook account can really be deleted. It's well known that Facebook or Google actually wouldn't remove all of your data from their storage if you request to be removed from their service. Essentially there's no deletion, it's only a deactivation of your account.

From the Facebook Help pages, Facebook actually say that you CAN delete your account now, and they distinguish it from being merely deactivated. Whether you trust their word on this or not is another thing: