I’ve been saying this for years.

A great little video about the importance of learning how to code from code.org, featuring a host of heavy hitters such as Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Drew Houston, and will.i.am.

Hey kids, there is a shortage of talented programmers in the world, learn to code. By the time you reach puberty, you pretty much know you’re not going to be the next Meryl Streep or Michael Jordan but you can still be a programmer. Learn to code.

Today’s Cool Tool of the Month is Piecon a tiny JavaScript library for dynamically generating progress pie charts within your favicons. Piecon is by programmer Lukas Lipka that runs along the same lines of other libraries that affect the browser’s favicon real-time such as Tinycon and Notificon.

Marino 3 develops marketing communications that deliver fresh, clearly targeted ideas. They create, write and design communications that speak powerfully to consumer or B2B audiences. Decades of advertising and marketing experience, combined with insights into their clients’ industries, enables them to perform as partners in defining goals and devising creative strategies to achieve them.

Marino 3 is one of our creative partners and their new website is a perfect example of our effortless collaboration.

Launched new WordPress CMS website for Joshua Watson, a couples therapist based in Westport and Greenwich, CT.

The last two Cool Tool of the Month featured online development environments for modern Web design. This month’s post rounds out the trilogy with CodePen, an HTML, CSS, and JavaScript editor for testing and sharing “pens” with others. The interface is much more slick than JSFiddle or JSBin so it is great for showcasing to clients or collaborating with colleagues.

Check out David Walsh’s interview with Chris Coyier (one of three “authors” along with Tim Sabat and Alex Vazquez).