Teaching Kids to Program

Posted by banane on June 22nd, 2010 — in technology

OK, I sat down my niece and nephew before bed, and we had a little period of Intro to Programming. It lasted about 15 minutes. Not their fault at all. I talked to my sister-the-educator about it later and she nodded knowingly. I wasn’t prepared. So I’ve written up the final-state program here. It’s a [...]

Ephemera Demo

Posted by banane on June 20th, 2010 — in iphone dev

This is the live presentation of our iPad app, Ephemera, from hack/hackers event a month ago. Thanks so much to Rich for the filming and editing! It’s *so nice* to be able to listen to the judges without the panic of being onstage, I have to say. It’s kind of painful to see such a [...]

Pumping Up Ephemera

Posted by banane on June 14th, 2010 — in iphone dev

So doing some work lately on Ephemera- that’s the iPad app that consolidates local museum media on a Google Maps interface, so you can get a timeline view of your city. What have I done? – Created the timeline! Now you can scroll over time and view all of the media. – Click over to [...]