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What do Lego and Web Development have in Common?

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This week is the 55th anniversary of  when Godtfred Kirk Christiansen patented the Lego brick in 1958. Such a simple concept would go on to define the toy industry, and most of our childhoods. I was, and still am, a Lego fanatic. Playing with Lego contributed heavily to my working in Web development. Now that […]

SXSW Interactive 2012 Team Building Competition
The Lego Mindstorms Rumble at Google Village

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South by Southwest Interactive, popularly known as SXSWi, is an annual mind-warping interactive festival held in Austin, Texas. For five days, an overwhelming number of web designers, developers, marketers, and more, descend upon the convention center and surrounding environs to attend panels, network, and enjoy great food and drink. It’s almost guaranteed to be a […]

How to Build a Lego Wall in Your Home or Office

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Many web developers can trace their humble beginnings to the family room floor of their childhood, where boxes of Lego bricks spilled out into our imaginative hands and became flying cars, futuristic skyscrapers, impenetrable fortresses, and whatever else we could think to build. Yes, many of us enjoy developing web-based applications because it is so […]