Sync Calendars: iPhone, iCal, Google
It continually amazes me that some of the basic necessities of organization and productivity have not been given enough attention by the major players in application and operating system development. Looking for solutions, many people are forced to pay for utilities which bring up the slack. While I support many small developers for the great work that they do, I’ll take a free solution if I can get it. I also like wherever possible to solve problems using as few variables as possible. So when my subscription to Spanning Sync recently expired, I revisited the problem of syncing calendars between iCal, Google, and my iPhone using ‘built-in’ features.

Allowed memory size exhausted
A few minor versions ago I found that the automatic feature to upgrade the core Wordpress engine stopped working. Specifically, upon clicking the ‘Upgrade Automatically’ button, the process said it was downloading the zip but then just hung. I’ve been putting off troubleshooting it. Upon looking at the PHP log, I saw the following error: PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 2357046 bytes) This means that the process needs more memory (RAM) to run that it is allowed. With a little research I found tha