Invention and She’s Geeky 2012

Posted by banane on January 31st, 2012 — in technology

I really want to find this picture of my great-grandfather standing in front of his car, that has a license plate with a big circle cut out of the center. He’s showing off his invention. A way of keeping your car from being stolen. You take the center of the license out with you when [...]

Sample Koala-Facebook Ruby on Rails App

Posted by banane on January 22nd, 2012 — in facebook, ruby on rails

Back on my old post: “Ruby on Rails and Facebook API (Koala): Basic Example” there was a request for either sample code, or more detail. I’ve setup an app in Github: “Sample Koala Rails Test.”. You can get that code by putting the following on your server: git clone git://github.com/banane/sample-koala-rails-app.git Or, just read it online [...]

An iPhone Developer Learns Android- Some Thoughts

Posted by banane on January 16th, 2012 — in android dev, technology

At first, doing a “Hello World” was quite easy, the hardest part was learning Eclipse (for Mac): – Open Eclipse and don’t worry about opening a project, on the left hand side will be all of your “workspace” projects. – Running (the play button) does an automatic build – Mouseover red squiggly underlines to find [...]

Joy of Android: Playing Sound

Posted by banane on January 11th, 2012 — in android dev, technology

I do really like Android, unsuspectingly so. It was my New Year’s resolution to finally write an app, and I got this assignment at work to create… the quick business card app. Available in the marketplace. 10 installs in 1 day! Already an upgrade! OK so I decided to port one of our iPhone apps- [...]