brogramming, and chickgramming

Posted by banane on October 29th, 2011 — in feminism, technology

So, uh, there’s this thing going on right now in tech, that kinda sucks. Well, it’s funny, it’s a stereotype that was created and maintained somewhat faithfully by those that fit in it. But in general, there’s an underlying tone of – let’s keep it in the club. Brogramming on Quora Brogramming in a job [...]

Ruby on Rails and Facebook API (Koala): Basic Example

Posted by banane on October 13th, 2011 — in facebook, technology

Talking to a developer today about getting her toes wet in Ruby and Facebook. I wrote up this simple example of how to set it up. First, Koala is a lightweight, transparent library for Facebook API calls. I’m pretty happy with it- the developer is very responsive and since I know the Facebook API, it’s [...]