Last year, I posted an article titled The Credit Crisis, Illustrated, which attempted to provide an easier-to-understand explanation of how we got into this mess in the first place. I now present to you a much slicker graphic explanation called The Crisis of Credit Visualized, a gorgeously-designed video by Jonathan Jarvis that does a great job of illustrating the background behind the current economic situation.
The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.
My first Coffee and Code day – a day when I work at a wifi-equipped cafe rather than my home office or the Microsoft offices in order to be very accessible – was a success. For more, check out my article on the Coffee and Code blog.
Coffee and Code is an idea I’ve been meaning to try out for some time. Every so often – perhaps once a week – I plan to work somewhere other than my home office or Microsoft’s offices but instead spend the day working in one of Toronto’s wifi-equipped cafe.
The idea is to make myself available to you, to answer your questions and talk about Microsoft, programming, the tech job market, games, accordions or whatever topic strikes your fancy. I’ll be pretty easy to spot: just look for the guy with both a laptop and an accordion.
For this inaugural Coffee and Code session, I’ll be at Urbana Coffee (1033 Bay Street, a couple of blocks north of Wellesley, at St. Joseph) from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. I’ve picked the place for a number of reasons: a central location near parking and transit, friendly staff, free wifi, power outlets aplenty, recommendations from friends and a glowing review from Torontoist. If you’re in the neighbourhood, please drop by!
Since I live and work in Toronto, I’ll be holding most of my Coffee and Code days there. However, my job does involve a fair bit of travel, and it’s quite likely that I’ll hold Coffee and Code days in other cities. Some of my coworkers are also thinking about holding their own Coffee and Code days in their own cities as well.
If you’d like to know more about upcoming Coffee and Code days, keep reading this blog, or check out Coffee and Code’s site at coffeeandcode.org.
This article was originally published in Canadian Developer Connection.
I’m announcing the start of Coffee and Code, a regular event where I’ll spend the day working at a wifi-equipped cafe somewhere in Toronto. It’s not just an excuse to get out of the home office, but a way of making myself available to you, to answer your questions about Microsoft, our tools and technology, development and tech in general – or anything else. If you’re in the neighbourhood, I invite you to drop by for a chat!
The first Coffee and Code will take place tomorrow, Friday, February 20th, from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. at Urbana Coffee (1033 Bay Street, a couple of blocks north of Wellesley, at St. Joseph). I’ve picked the place for a number of reasons: a central location near parking and transit, friendly staff, free wifi, power outlets aplenty, recommendations from friends and a glowing review from Torontoist. It looks like a promising place to “set up shop”.
Feel free to drop by! I look forward to talking with you.
In honour of President Obama’s visit to Canada today, I’m pointing you to the Presidential Snowball Generator, where you make your own “Snowballed by Obama” photo comic like the one below:
Eric Grant pointed me to his article at DRIVEN magazine, where he shows us the packaging for Baby’s Choice brand bathtub toys:
The text in the sunburst dutifully informs you that the plastic from which the toys are made are free of bisphenol-A, while the warning tells you that the toys’ small parts make them a choking hazard and that children under 3 – the kind we like to classify under “baby” — should avoid them.
The proud declaration that the toys don’t have a chemical declared unsafe and banned in some places is more of a marketing statement than a safety declaration. As for part about the possibility that your kids might choke on them, well, didn’t you read the warning on the package?
Thanks to Eric for the heads-up!
