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“Nothing extraordinary is ever achieved through ordinary means.” -Scott Belsky My experience this year at 99U has left me holding on tight to something extraordinary. I can only describe these two days as a perfect dream, a place I want to hold onto and remember as if it were yesterday. As a designer, my senses…
The local AIGA chapter hosted another round of Design for Good April 12-14. Design for Good parallels Give Camp in many respects, but from the design community instead of the development community. Dustin and I attended the event this year, lending our services to The Creative Youth Center and the Well House. I had the…
Atomic Object will be presenting two talks at the Great Lakes Software Excellence Conference (GLSEC) on April 29. Time-based Estimates Are For Suckers; Size-based Is The Way To Go – David Crosby Dave will discuss the benefits of using relative complexity estimation to achieve better results. Nurturing Top-notch Tech Teams – Drew Colthorp & Mike…
On the weekend of March 22-23, a group of educators, their students, and industry professionals came together at Calvin College’s Prince Center for the Michigan Celebration of Women in Computing or MICWIC. Along with my colleague Carl Erickson, I had the privilege of attending this event and getting to know some of the best and…
On March 27, 2013 Local First held its 5th Annual Sustainable Business Conference. I was invited to speak on a panel about sustainability initiatives in business. My fellow panelists were Marcia Rapp of the Grand Rapids Community Foundation, Kris Spaulding of Brewery Vivant, and Matt VanSweden of Integrated Architecture. Bill Smith of CompuCraft was our panel’s moderator. Participating on…
Whoa! It’s almost time for GRDevDay 2013 on March 2nd! Paul Hart and I will be representing Atomic with two presentations: “How to Create User Context Scenarios: What it Is and Why it Matters” and “Visualization Is for Everyone.” Here are the abstracts: How to Create User Context Scenarios: What it Is and Why it…
This Wednesday, December 5, I’ll be sharing a short experience report at the Lansing Design Thinking meetup. My current project is about to go into a major phase of building a feature we’re calling My Plan. Although the team originally had some good ideas for what My Plan could be, we knew there were more…
On November 20, I’ll be presenting my talk Visualization Is for Everyone at the Grand Rapids Java Users Group. It’s definitely not a topic specific to Java, but it definitely applies to Java (and all) developers. It’s a fun talk, and I look forward to presenting it. Join us at Aquinas College at 6pm for…
I recently gave a talk at Strange Loop called Data Structures: The Code that Isn’t There. I think it went pretty well, though I started out nervous due to a last-minute battle with OSX’s display settings and a much larger audience than anticipated! They had many excellent questions, both during the talk and through the…
GiveCamp is a single weekend long mashup of non-profits and technical volunteers. A group of non-profits pitch their technical-problems and are hand selected to be paired up with volunteers. This year I am proud to be attending GiveCamp, not as a volunteer but rather with a non-profit. The Creative Youth Center (CYC) is a non-profit…
Carl is the president and co-founder of Atomic Object