You may think it’s strange, but I actually like sitting here, by the ocean, writing blog posts while the sun goes down. It may not be for everyone but for me it’s relaxing. I spent a bit of time over the last couple of days converting my blog over to [...]

Posted by Chris Nicola • 5 days ago • View comments

This post made the rounds at work the other day and on twitter. It’s a well thought out piece trying to address the challenges and conflicts that often arise between designers and developers. The thing is that I don’t think designers and developers ar [...]

Posted by Chris Nicola • 18 days ago • View comments

So it’s another year and time for another year in review. It’s actually quite surprising to really look back on a year, I was taken aback by just how long it actually was. It seems like such an incredibly short thing but now as I look at my Pinboard, [...]

Posted by Chris Nicola • 26 days ago • View comments

The City of Nanaimo has been making many changes to their online services to help inform the citizens of Nanaimo about whats going on in their fine city. The feature I want to talk about today is the new calendar feature. This is a very powerfu [...]

Posted by phansoft • 45 days ago • View comments

Just over a year ago I had first heard of lean startup and about the idea of starting new projects with the ‘minimal viable product’ a term that on it’s face value seems so clear and concise I, and many others I was working with, assumed we understo [...]

Posted by Chris Nicola • 49 days ago • View comments

Last week I had the absolutely pleasure of attending JP Boodhoo’s Develop With Passion Bootcamp at my company’s office in Regina. The title of the course has recently changed from Nothing But .NET because it was misleading, and JP stated so several ti [...]

Posted by Stefan Moser • 57 days ago • View comments