So I haven’t sync'ed my iPad/iPhone to my mac since December because every time I plugged it in I’d get the BBOD (beach ball of death). Tonight I finally had it and went into detective mode. Hopefully this post will serve as a guide to those lost in the dark as I was for more than 3 months.

Basically it boils down to some sort of corruption in the “SyncServices” database. I couldn’t find ANYTHING online that helped me figure this out, except for this post: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2132675?start=0&tstart=0. WillGonz figured it out, you need to delete the *

Hello internet peoples, how have you been? I’ve been quite busy myself; this semester I’m taking two grad level courses: Relational Databases and Information System Security. I’ve also found some spare time to hack on socket.io, backbone.js, lots of node.js, getting my couchdb chops up, and today I implemented a nice little cache using redis & the redback module. What fun!

I got sick of sitting at my desk at work and at home, so I changed things up…