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GovCamp: Ottawa, May 31 – June 1, 2010

  Creative Commons Photo by the Poissant Family. Open Government / Government 2.0 The intersection of the internet and politics…

16 years ago

Babbage and Lovelace Get the “Space: 1999” Treatment

What happens when you take computing’s proto-heroes Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace, turn them into characters in a steampunk adventure…

16 years ago

“Developer Junior” on Webnation

Last night, “Junior” and I went on Amber MacArthur’s show, Webnation, to talk about our show, Developer Junior. You can…

16 years ago

Developer Junior: Making Your Own Movies with Live Movie Maker / Appearing on “Webnation”

Here’s episode 2 of Developer Junior, the show where “Junior” the puppet (played by Brian Hogg of Hoggworks Studios) and…

16 years ago

PowerPoint is NOT the Enemy

The “tl;dr” Version (or: “The Executive Summary”) High-ranking officers in the U.S. military say that PowerPoint makes them dumb. I…

16 years ago

Toronto Code Camp: Saturday, May 1st!

The 5th annual Toronto Code Camp takes place next Saturday, May 1st, in the SEQ building on Seneca College’s York…

16 years ago

EnergizeIT Academic Visits

Ah, student life. While waiting to do a presentation at Fanshawe College in London, I had a quick student lunch,…

16 years ago

Developer Junior: Creating Your Own Games with Kodu

My tech show for kids, Developer Junior, premieres today on Butterscotch.com! In this episode, Junior (the puppet) and I (the…

16 years ago

Visiting Victoria

Victoria, Day 1 The day after Damir and I did our EnergizeIT presentation in Kelowna, it was time to go…

16 years ago

EnergizeIT Goes to Kelowna

On Tuesday, Damir and I flew into Kelowna to do an EnergizeIT presentation for their software developers and IT Pro…

16 years ago