What if I approached learning software design and development as if I were pursuing a doctorate?

Monotonous work is our collective dirty little secret. It ain't going away soon. How can we rob it of its power, and force it to serve our needs?

As I’m working through my apprenticeship at Sparkbox, there are a few ideas that have kept me going when I hit the paralyzing fear of a challenging programming problem.

As a designer, I always used to feel like programming languages were off-limits to me. Recently though, I've been studying Ruby - and acquiring a particular fondness for programming.