It’s pretty awesome to find yourself in a positive article of a national newspaper:
Industry feels pinch as numbers of IT grads plummet
If you’re too lazy to read it, at least check out the last few paragraphs of it.
Over the holidays and during this past fall, I noticed something different about the local EB Games as I walked in at Dufferin Mall and the Eaton Centre – they hired some female staff! I think this was the first time ever, out of the many times I’ve been to EB Games, seeing females [...]
After speaking to a particular interesting student at the club fair, a light bulb went up in my head. Playing video games is one thing. Making them is another. Some are just hardcore game players. Some are craftsmen who rarely play any video games. I realize that I fall into [...]
Last month, Adam Goucher wrote some tips for people who go to conferences and are on a budget, which I saw from Greg Wilson’s blog.
One other thing too add to Adam’s budget tips: if you’re a student, consider volunteering at the conference! That’s what I did at SIGGRAPH this year, if it isn’t obvious [...]
My flight leaves in a little over 12 hours and I haven’t gotten around to packing up yet. Speaking of SIGGRAPH, I just finished the last assignment of one of my courses I’m taking this summer: CSC320 Intro to Visual Computing. This last assignment let’s us write a program that can morph [...]
I remember attempting to learn the C programming language for the very first time just a little under 10 years ago in the summer of ‘98, although I didn’t get too far. I was learning off the very popular C for Dummies Vol. 1 & 2 by Dan Gookin and the very first command [...]