This week I helped to kickoff Delaware State University’s inaugural Android Bootcamp as lead instructor. I welcomed a total of 13 students, with little to no programming experience, with the intent of teaching programming and Android fundamentals. The program, hosted by historically black college Delaware State University (DelState), is mostly composed of black men, ranging in age from 18 […]
2015 Recap.
It’s 30 minutes past midnight on Christmas Day. I’ve just awaken, as my newborn son starts to squirm for his next feeding. Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas” plays in the background. Its the perfect cinematic score, provided by the bar below our apartment. This is my first Christmas, in a while, spent […]
I’ve been interested in Telescope since Sacha Greif introduced it a few years ago. Telescope is an open-source social news app. For example, it enables you to build sites similar to Hacker News and Product Hunt. When it was first introduced, I was interested because it was built using the Meteor JS framework. In its infancy, you could […]
Have you seen cool forms that look like this? They’re often called natural language forms or conversation forms. From a visual perspective, they look awesome. I’ve been incorporating them into a few side projects, up until a couple of days ago. One of my sites was using a conversation form as a user signup. The form […]
Ten weeks ago I wrote this. Well, yesterday was our final class and we ended with final presentations. Each student presented both a personal project and a group project. And I do not have the exact words to communicate how impressed I was, not only with the final projects, but with what was accomplished by […]
Black Enterprise TechConneXt Summit Panel Recap Yesterday, I was honored to moderate a panel at the Black Enterprise TechConneXt Summit. The topic was Tech Hubs Replicating Silicon Valley and it featured panelists Earl Robinson, CEO of PowerMoves.NOLA, Rodney Sampson, Cofounder & CEO of Opportunity Hub (and a veteran tech entrepreneur with 2 exits), and Jill Ford, […]
