A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of being involved with a March break camp aimed at introducing and preparing some of our young girls to web making, as we call it. The camp was called Girls Learning Code. You’ve heard me talk about Ladies Learning Code (LLC) and my involvement with that [...]
As a hybrid developer and designer I struggled to explain to others the benefits of having a design perspective in a development team. But with the ever increasing importance of designers in the technology industry I think the gap between design and development is starting to close. More and more companies understand the importance of [...]
For those of you who don’t know, Toronto has a pretty fantastic developer community! There’s a bit of a startup vibe in this city and that helps to encourage and feed the developer and designer community. Designers are eager to learn from developers and developers understand more and more the importance of designers. I’ve been [...]
For most of 2011 I’ve been working on Mission 2: “Flight to Freedom” and I’m so excited that it’s finally out and just in time for Black History month in February! I’m eager to hear the reception among teachers and students. EFS has done some awesome things in this Mission in terms of game design, [...]
This being the day where the web community comes together in protest of SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act) I would like to share with you all a video that explains so clearly and understandably the issues and implications that such a legislation would have on the web community and the [...]
As we all stumble back to work today I wanted to take a minute to wish everyone a very Happy New Year! I wish you prosperity, joy, laughter, success and happiness for this year and more. 2011 was a whirlwind of a year for me. There were hardships, difficulties, sadness but also resilience, strength and [...]