Digital + Life
Today I was reminiscing about a project I haven’t shared here. Six years ago I took on one of my most interesting projects. Working with authors, a graffiti artist, a videographer, musicians, and IndieInk Publishing we created the NRP iPad Book App. A bit of history though, a month before Professor Ralph Deters (my Masters…
I’ve been really wanting to dive into the Raspberry Pi World for months now for some fun tech R&D projects. I recently set it up for educational purposes for my son this summer. This is the results of my initial effort into our Pi journey from hardware choices to the operating system (OS) installation. Later…
I couldn’t help myself one day as I was playing with my son’s micro:bit and the capabilities of Samsung’s micro:bit (official) Android app. Transfering the code via Bluetooth from the app was a bit tricky. Just follow the instructions displayed on the app, it works. I then copied the code and pushed it to my…
I’ve spent countless hours researching ways to introduce my kids to computers. This post is about my plan, so far, to do so and in the process, inspire them to be creators and makers and have fun together while at it.
A friend of mine shared a Button UX Design article. I’m gonna do something different here, the following is a kind of free writing exercise about something that struck me as odd and was bugging me. Here it goes… “This article got me thinking about a specific design convention that has bugged me since its emergence. Material Design tries to…
Urban gleaning, or fruit picking, groups have become common in most major cities. Typically the fruit is donated by a neighbour with a fruit tree in their yard, and shared between the volunteers and food banks or events. I wanted to share what I’ve learned from three years of volunteering as a coordinator for one of these…
Recent Problem: In a Windows environment (unfortunately) I needed to set different branch based permissions for different intranet users. If you’re in a Linux environment (lucky you) have a look at Gitolite or Gitlab. If you can use the cloud then Bitbucket.
This was a great treat for father’s day. My second SUP experience on Sechelt Inlet, paddling from Tuwanek to Sandy Hook boat launch.
I’m taking the plunge and learning Drupal because: Many companies are using it and it’ll be an extra tool under my belt. I am a fan of Composer and Symfony2 (incl. Twig). I’ve been intrigued with D8 since it has modernized itself and is now integrated with these technologies. I have some projects in mind where a…
For the past few years I’ve been very interested to learn and become a better UX designer and developer. Up until then I thought you needed to be artistic to become any kind of designer. I see this differently now. It helps to have an artistic foundation but artists and designers have different goals and intentions, one coming up with…