How many lines of code can you program in hour? A new campaign in the US that is spreading around internet is called “Hour of Code”, with a great video ad with celebrities and folks of all ages learning to code, and Obama giving a little encouragement. I checked out HourofCode.org to see what it…

I was nervous when I arrived on Saturday morning. Sitting in the spacious offices of Shopify, consuming my breakfast of provided scrambled eggs and bacon, I was asked “So, if you aren’t a coder, why are you here?”. Good question. Why was I sitting here, about to start my first ever hackathon?  What did I…

Christmas is coming, so I was wondering if there was an interesting project that I could do that could be a gift or just be entertaining during the holidays.  As luck would have it, ModLab had a day-long workshop called Hack UR Baubles, run by Ottawa hackers Michael Grant and Megan Smith, to construct a…