Banane - banane.com - banane
General Information:
Latest News:
How To Interview For Mobile (When Nobody Knows Mobile) 23 Aug 2013 | 10:18 pm
This Christmas, close to 90% of shopping will occur on a mobile device. Companies are scrambling to get in-house developers. Imagine you’re hiring an in-house team. You’re tired of outsourcing with co...
Train Travel – SF to New Orleans 14 Aug 2013 | 10:22 pm
Tucson, Arizona sunset The Route I took the Coast Starlight to Los Angeles, then the Sunset Limited from LA to New Orleans, and then back again 4 days later. A total of 10 days, mostly spent on the tr...
What Have Hipsters Brought Us? 14 Jul 2013 | 03:05 am
One could say that baby-boomers brought us Viagra and IRAs, hippies brought us whole grains and hot tubs, and slackers (my generation) brought us the Internet and WFH. For no apparent reason, some of ...
Getting the Piano 27 Jun 2013 | 12:05 pm
Probably one of the hardest things to coordinate was getting the piano out of my mom’s house- which she had finally sold- and up to my apartment. 150 miles, from a large Victorian in Pacific Grove, to...
Tips on Working With Diverse Teams: Conversation Style 28 May 2013 | 12:21 am
Look how many women are at Google I/O – this is my world. Let’s change it. I was recently on a call with a developer (woman), and a colleague who was her supervisor (male). This colleague is *very* we...
Those Anonymous Buses of Digital Workers, and Commutes 7 May 2013 | 10:27 am
You’ve seen them- large, ghost-like double-decker buses, careening around the narrow streets, in the Mission, or North Beach, picking up nicely dressed young people and carting them off to hinterlands...
The Weeds of Bay View 27 Apr 2013 | 11:13 pm
I’ve been working in the northeaster corner of the San Francisco neighborhood, the Bay View for a few months now. It’s an geurilla gardener’s delight. There is so much land- unloved, untilled, un-stak...
Startups Silicon Valley Reviews In No Particular Order: Women in Silicon Valley 21 Jan 2013 | 09:00 pm
Ed: Second in the series, see Dwight for earlier one. My reviews of Bravo’s Startup Silicon Valley What I learned from Bravo’s Startup Silicon Valley about Women in the Valley I could write a detailed...
Start-Ups Silicon Valley Reviews in No Particular Order: Dwight 21 Jan 2013 | 02:01 am
Dwight is the engineer formerly from Google who is the archetype: young, white, male, nice, and smart. His Achilles' heel and dramatic tension would either be his inability to admit his undying love f...
Happy Ada Lovelace Day! 17 Oct 2012 | 04:22 am
I’m sitting here at work kinda slammed and sick, but hey, it’s ALD, and that’s kinda cool. At work, we were talking about Ada Lovelace – interesting because we are in fashion, and her first applicatio...
