Special guest post by Nick Couch, Camp Chief of Deskcamping Here’s the good news. New York City is the second fastest growing tech community in the nation, second only to Silicon Valley. In Brooklyn alone, growth projections call for nearly 18,000 tech workers in the Tech Triangle by 2015. Bad news? We’ll, it’s not so […]

At the intersection of tech and law is a niche where you’ll find a community known as legal hackers — collaborative, local, with their origin tracing back to Brooklyn Law School, yet whose existence and relevance can be attributed to global vision. “We are lawyers and people knowledgeable about regulatory and policy issues, and together […]

An interface-friendly app that helps you find the best coffee in New York City. A visualization of words and their etymological connections. A mechanical bird that automatically sends a poem to the phone of a loved one. From the pragmatic to the esoteric, these web applications are products of General Assembly’s Web Development Immersive, a […]

Twenty-three-year-old Jessie Chen, a graphic design major at the New York City College of Technology, is driven by sheer curiosity. She has found interest in nearly every subject area, from math, science, and finance to psychology, music, and art. “I love challenges – whenever a problem is presented, I am excited to roll up my […]

The inaugural NYC Web Development Fellowship is now underway in the heart of the Brooklyn Tech Triangle, with 28 people – 16 of them Brooklyn residents – getting a fully-funded education to start a career in web development. The NYC Department of Small Businesses Services launched the program last month in an effort to provide […]