http://www.banane.com Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:12:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.banane.com/2012/02/02/converting-wav-to-mp3/ http://www.banane.com/2012/02/02/converting-wav-to-mp3/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:58:13 +0000 banane http://www.banane.com/?p=2349 http://www.banane.com/2012/02/02/converting-wav-to-mp3/feed/ 0 I keep forgetting this, so here it is for all posterity: afconvert -f mp4f -d aac -b 128000 input.wav output.mp3 I’m working on Bingueau-Android, and need to change literally hundreds of little wav files to mp3. And if you want a little command-line Ruby script to do it in batches: # command line test: # [...] http://www.banane.com/2012/01/31/invention-and-shes-geeky-2012/ http://www.banane.com/2012/01/31/invention-and-shes-geeky-2012/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:40:19 +0000 banane http://www.banane.com/?p=2343 http://www.banane.com/2012/01/31/invention-and-shes-geeky-2012/feed/ 1 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 [...] http://www.banane.com/2012/01/22/sample-koala-facebook-ruby-on-rails-app/ http://www.banane.com/2012/01/22/sample-koala-facebook-ruby-on-rails-app/#comments Mon, 23 Jan 2012 05:47:07 +0000 banane http://www.banane.com/?p=2328 http://www.banane.com/2012/01/22/sample-koala-facebook-ruby-on-rails-app/feed/ 0 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 [...] http://www.banane.com/2012/01/16/an-iphone-developer-learns-android-some-thoughts/ http://www.banane.com/2012/01/16/an-iphone-developer-learns-android-some-thoughts/#comments Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:23:02 +0000 banane http://www.banane.com/?p=2324 http://www.banane.com/2012/01/16/an-iphone-developer-learns-android-some-thoughts/feed/ 0 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 [...] http://www.banane.com/2012/01/11/joy-of-android-playing-sound/ http://www.banane.com/2012/01/11/joy-of-android-playing-sound/#comments Thu, 12 Jan 2012 05:00:44 +0000 banane http://www.banane.com/?p=2319 http://www.banane.com/2012/01/11/joy-of-android-playing-sound/feed/ 4 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- [...] http://www.banane.com/2011/12/29/how-to-make-a-scavenger-hunt/ http://www.banane.com/2011/12/29/how-to-make-a-scavenger-hunt/#comments Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:58:32 +0000 banane http://www.banane.com/?p=2309 http://www.banane.com/2011/12/29/how-to-make-a-scavenger-hunt/feed/ 0 (Scavenger hunt being: urban food & pub crawl with historical and local notes) Team Berkeley caught near the end of San Francisco, Upper Polk Hunt 2011 1. Pick a neighborhood. It’s pedestrian, it’s got lots of businesses close by, and it’s got “character,” that is, some identifying historical or local traditions. 2. Walk the neighborhood. [...] http://www.banane.com/2011/12/24/christmas-traditions/ http://www.banane.com/2011/12/24/christmas-traditions/#comments Sat, 24 Dec 2011 20:02:25 +0000 banane http://www.banane.com/?p=2268 http://www.banane.com/2011/12/24/christmas-traditions/feed/ 2 The new “city visit” tradition with sister & kids & friends I’m a Christmas baby. The other day, I had a conversation with my older sister Amy, who was 5 when I was born, about my mom having me. She already had 4 kids, Christmas was 4 days away. She was sick with the flu. [...] http://www.banane.com/2011/12/13/xcode-4-and-assigning-tab-bar-item-view-controllers/ http://www.banane.com/2011/12/13/xcode-4-and-assigning-tab-bar-item-view-controllers/#comments Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:10:07 +0000 banane http://www.banane.com/?p=2261 http://www.banane.com/2011/12/13/xcode-4-and-assigning-tab-bar-item-view-controllers/feed/ 0 I ran into this last night- I used the sample from Xcode 4, “tab bar application.” I wanted to solve this problem I was having- I was assigning a UITableViewController to one of my Tab Bar Items, but I got a crash each time, with “retavalue” and “numberOfSections.” No matter how I set it up, [...] http://www.banane.com/2011/12/11/penelope-trunks-skewed-perceptions-of-the-world-part-2/ http://www.banane.com/2011/12/11/penelope-trunks-skewed-perceptions-of-the-world-part-2/#comments Sun, 11 Dec 2011 19:45:20 +0000 banane http://www.banane.com/?p=2239 http://www.banane.com/2011/12/11/penelope-trunks-skewed-perceptions-of-the-world-part-2/feed/ 0 As usual, Penelope Trunk is fanning the flames and creating controversy (Part 1 is here). Her latest is in TechCrunch, Stop Telling Women to Start Start-ups (ironically linked to by a female start-up CEO friend of mine). If you don’t know P. Trunk, she had a blog 10 years ago about job-hunting (based on her [...] http://www.banane.com/2011/12/03/in-search-of-my-grandmothers-silver/ http://www.banane.com/2011/12/03/in-search-of-my-grandmothers-silver/#comments Sun, 04 Dec 2011 03:25:36 +0000 banane http://www.banane.com/?p=2146 http://www.banane.com/2011/12/03/in-search-of-my-grandmothers-silver/feed/ 6 In helping my parents downsize, I took their silver off their hands. It’s the same stuff I used to have to polish as a kid, and I remember doing that, lazy circles with a rag on a coffee pot we rarely used. So awkward now in my modern apartment, these old silver set and the [...]