http://www.banane.com Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:12:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 http://www.banane.com/2010/02/07/how-cootie-catcher-is-made/ http://www.banane.com/2010/02/07/how-cootie-catcher-is-made/#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 04:56:39 +0000 banane http://www.banane.com/?p=1417 http://www.banane.com/2010/02/07/how-cootie-catcher-is-made/feed/ 1 Cootie Catcher is a game girls play around the world, and is more commonly know contemporarily as Fortune Teller. I have a nostalgic love for the old name, but should probably start using the more boring modern term. Anyways. This is how it is made from a real paper game to a computer game. First you [...] http://www.banane.com/2010/02/07/cootie-version-0-02beta/ http://www.banane.com/2010/02/07/cootie-version-0-02beta/#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 04:02:50 +0000 banane http://www.banane.com/?p=1409 http://www.banane.com/2010/02/07/cootie-version-0-02beta/feed/ 0 There was an 0.01 but it never made it off my local system. SO … here is a working version! . Enjoy and please offer feedback. More info on what this is about, here. Make It Simple… Went to a great talk on Thursday by GirlGeek Dinners, and Women2.0 on mobile applications. One message and word of advice [...] http://www.banane.com/2010/02/04/cootie-catcher/ http://www.banane.com/2010/02/04/cootie-catcher/#comments Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:27:23 +0000 banane http://www.banane.com/?p=1404 http://www.banane.com/2010/02/04/cootie-catcher/feed/ 3 At She’s Geeky last weekend, I put up a sign to propose a talk: “Cootie Catcher, Games for Girls.” I was running late from other sessions and ran over the semi-circle of chairs and a white board in the center of the room. There I noticed 4 or so girls that had been waiting for about [...] http://www.banane.com/2010/01/29/trying-new-things-or-being-a-new-person/ http://www.banane.com/2010/01/29/trying-new-things-or-being-a-new-person/#comments Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:24:48 +0000 banane http://www.banane.com/?p=1401 http://www.banane.com/2010/01/29/trying-new-things-or-being-a-new-person/feed/ 2 This is the second time I’ve gone up to Tahoe during the week. I woke up at 5- my adorable alarm clock (cat) did that magic- and picked up a ZipCar, turned on NPR, and then drove about 2 1/2 hours up to Donner Pass. Ski for 4 hours, drive home. Ta-da. The result is [...] http://www.banane.com/2010/01/25/mysql-ruby-and-snow-leopard-yet-another-post/ http://www.banane.com/2010/01/25/mysql-ruby-and-snow-leopard-yet-another-post/#comments Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:55:32 +0000 banane http://www.banane.com/?p=1385 http://www.banane.com/2010/01/25/mysql-ruby-and-snow-leopard-yet-another-post/feed/ 0 The blogosphere is full of a lot of posts about this particular problem, but I thought I’d chime in with my own insights. This is evidenced by two errors. First, whenever you try to do any kind of rake db task: rake aborted! uninitialized constant MysqlCompat::MysqlRes Second, you cannot install the Mysql Gem. missing libraries, or other errors, [...] http://www.banane.com/2010/01/06/long-car-rides/ http://www.banane.com/2010/01/06/long-car-rides/#comments Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:44:29 +0000 banane http://www.banane.com/?p=1381 http://www.banane.com/2010/01/06/long-car-rides/feed/ 0 I had a long car-ride with my sister Amy- Berkeley-SF-Monterey and back a day later. We had some amazing conversations. Mostly, though, they are the conversations that don’t exhaust after 15 minutes. It’s a depth of conversation that I don’t experience usually. Sometimes with coworkers, where we see each other every day for lunch, and [...] http://www.banane.com/2009/12/08/new-to-open-source/ http://www.banane.com/2009/12/08/new-to-open-source/#comments Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:12:23 +0000 banane http://www.banane.com/?p=1379 http://www.banane.com/2009/12/08/new-to-open-source/feed/ 2 My good friend Sarah over at Ultrasaurus got me thinking the other day. I was diving into some open source code, testing it, playing with it, installing it, etc. And I’d bitch about little things that annoyed me. She’d reply, “well, that sounds a way you can contribute.” “That’s an area of improvement you can [...] http://www.banane.com/2009/11/14/open-source-and-nanowrimo/ http://www.banane.com/2009/11/14/open-source-and-nanowrimo/#comments Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:15:13 +0000 banane http://www.banane.com/?p=1367 http://www.banane.com/2009/11/14/open-source-and-nanowrimo/feed/ 2 I made the tough decision last week to shelve Woodward’s Gardens and devote more time to my open source project- with women in ruby, a group that has been meeting on Wednesdays at the Blazing-Cloud space downtown, with my friend Sarah Allen. I was out with a friend of mine who is an artist, after a [...] http://www.banane.com/2009/11/04/woodwards-gardens-chapters-5-6/ http://www.banane.com/2009/11/04/woodwards-gardens-chapters-5-6/#comments Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:24:55 +0000 banane http://www.banane.com/?p=1360 http://www.banane.com/2009/11/04/woodwards-gardens-chapters-5-6/feed/ 1 Chapter 5: Liu Sing He was the sixth of eight brothers in the An-Wei province in the delta waters that emptied into the Canton district and finally Hong Kong. He was sent to America- Old Gold Mountain more specifically- also named San Francisco. The Italian name never conjured up, for him, the dreams of promise, that [...] http://www.banane.com/2009/11/03/woodward-gardens-a-novel/ http://www.banane.com/2009/11/03/woodward-gardens-a-novel/#comments Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:39:01 +0000 banane http://www.banane.com/?p=1353 http://www.banane.com/2009/11/03/woodward-gardens-a-novel/feed/ 0 This is the first installment of my Nanowrimo novel, Woodward’s Garden. It’s a story of a few people on the edge of the millenium in San Francisco. Please comment- love to know what you think. -Anna Chapter 1: Woodward’s Garden She took the trolley across town and walked a few blocks to the next one, the Green [...]