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I’ll delete them, then they’ll reappear after sync. Perhaps they are cursed.

I had to go through this entire process twice – once on my work Macbook Pro, once on my identical home verison – so I figured I’d might as well write all of this crap down in the hope that it may reduce the shock and awe of future migrators.

As much as this is a theoretical question, I believe I came up with some answers, and they are made manifest in the @cr_wookie Personality Engine.

I’m not exactly sure how many bots are out there – here’s a nice wiki being kept of them – but I can imagine mine’s not the only one that’s pulled off a retry logic FUBAR like this one.

Their service allows me to route my locally-issued notifications to an Apple Push Notification server, which routes them off to an iPhone client.

Really, that’s it. That’s my useful tip. Everything else is just me telling you a story about it.

I’ve screwed the pooch on two separate occasions in the few months I’ve worked for my new employer. My instincts say I’m shooting too fast from the hip, and there’s some fine balance I can’t quite seem to grasp.

How the heck can I make local revs to the App and proxy them through the FB back-end while still keeping the App running live for my millions of satisfied customers</sarcasm>?

Where can one find this magical all-important String?