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Very, Very Simple iPhone App
I got a very simple iPhone application to work, basically a riff of a great blog post- from Cocoa is my Girlfriend, “Cocoa Touch Tutorial iPhone Application“. The application shows an image based on a button click. 1. Create a project in Xcode, “Cocoa Application”. Name it something, like “Example.” 2. Open up the ExampleAppDelegate.m,…
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How Cootie Catcher is Made
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…
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Cootie Version 0.02beta
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…
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Cootie Catcher
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…
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MySql, Ruby and Snow Leopard (yet another post)
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,…
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New to Open Source
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…
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Open Source and Nanowrimo
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…
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Radiant Mailer Extension Installation Basics
I struggled for a while installing this so I thought I’d share the process, in case this helps anyone. Install Plugins, Extensions, etc. Setting Up the Mark-Up Pages Success! Troubleshooting Further Reading & Notes On What’s Out There So Radiant is the great content management system for Ruby on Rails. One basic aspect of any…
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I lose a good friend… FriendFeed
In the final, end of series montage, my Yearbook signatures as we all go on to bigger & better things… – 5-7 random guys help me install a new video card and RAM into my computer, via realtime FriendFeed discussion – For months, I have a daily French-English idiom exchange with directeur, half way across…
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Fearing Failure
A director friend at dinner the other night mentioned that people fear failure so much they won’t try new things. That it stunts the creative process, too. I’ve never had a problem learning in public- a contentious issue when I was learning Ruby on Rails recently. I asked this on FriendFeed the other day– “name…