I recently had an issue where I was working on how some text was displayed on a site.  Part of the text was user supplied and part of the text was not.  As an example, it would be something like this: Book: Title The title would be supplied by the user, but the product type [...]

Because of Eugene Wallingford, of Knowing and Doing, bringing up the subject, I’ve been thinking about computational thinking.  What is computational thinking?  I’m not sure any one knows exactly, but for me the short answer is it means thinking like a computer scientist. People, notably academics, think that computational thinking is an important way to [...]

Here are several quotes from Scott Berkun’s The Myths of Innovation: Teams with healthy idea life cycles are easy to spot: ideas flow between people easily and in large volumes. Teams that innovate are great places for ideas to live – like happy pets, they’re treated well, get lots of attention, and are shared among [...]

The dirty little secret – the fact often denied – is that unlike the mythical epiphany, real creation is sloppy.  Discovery is messy; exploration is dangerous.  No one knows what he’s going to get when he’s being creative.  Filmmakers, painters, inventors, and entrepreneurs describe their work as a search: they explore the unknown hoping to [...]