Hey everyone, Fresh like a crepe off the pan comes Koala 1.3rc2 to fill your stomach and brighten your day. (The holidays really seem to bring out the food imagery, don’t they?) Documentation! Koala has always had a thorough wiki, but until now you’ve had to look at the source code to see what methods [...]
Hey everyone, I’m excited to announce the release of Koala 1.2! This is a big update with a lot of cool features, plus support for Facebook’s upcoming authentication changes. Read through this rather long announcement at your leisure and enjoy the new version October 1st Koala 1.2 supports all of Facebook’s new authentication schemes, which [...]
A series of short blog posts about our life in Germany. It’s fall in Munich. Seeing fall again is a pleasant surprise. All around my neighborhood, leaves are changing into brilliant colors and covering the sidewalks and driveways. After living on the West Coast for years, I’d forgotten trees did that. As the [...]
Hey everyone, I’m happy to announce that Koala 0.7.0 has been officially released! This version includes two major updates: A new RealtimeUpdates class, which can be used to manage subscriptions for realtime user updates (see http://developers.facebook.com/docs/api/realtime) Added greatly improved testing using mocks rather than live calls to Facebook; these are now the default set of [...]
Hey everyone, I’m excited to announce the release of Koala 0.6.0! This update is, in many ways, unfortunate: the incorporation of Facebook’s old REST API into Koala. If the Graph API were fully functional, this would be unnecessary. Since the REST API is unavoidable, though — there’s a lot you can’t yet do with the [...]
Another entry in an occasional series of family recipes. We knew Dad was making olive chicken when the smell of olives cooked in oil and butter started filling the house. I remember that smell better than almost any other; I can almost smell it now, even though I can’t describe it and know no other [...]
The Winter Solstice is days away. The old seasonal tradition of honoring the sun and its light is upon us. Our past as humans is full of rituals, stories, and traditions of welcoming the sun back as it begins to show itself more. There are many ways that we celebrate this observable event. Below is [...]