The era of the “push button, listen to audio track” museum exhibit is quickly becoming a relic of the past.

Today’s installations and exhibits demand more from both viewer and creator. Whether we are talking about an experimental art piece, or a corporate trade show exhibit, the goal is to captivate and increasingly, to measure results.

When we start the process of choosing the right tools to complete a project a few questions come to mind. Is the tool reliable, does it have great community support, and could it increase productivity? There are numerous tools for various types of projects, but I will focus on the impact of web frameworks. It has been interesting to see how a few new features and an excited developer community can make creating new sites not only fun, but promote a better workflow.

The question, "What's the best web development platform to use right now?", has been asked a million times over. Is it Wordpress? Is it Laravel? Is it Drupal? Is it Joomla? Is it Django? Is it Node.js? The list goes on and on. I'm not going to get all technical on you, but you don't have to understand what these are or how they work to understand the answer.

Smartphone shipments worldwide will reach nearly 1 billion by 2015.

Remember the days before mobile devices? When making a phone call involved picking up a yellow or green colored contraption that attached to your wall or sat atop your desk. When breaking down in your car meant walking down the road to the nearest pay phone and searching your pocket for a quarter.

I play games. I play them on the field and on the court. I play them on cardboard, keyboard, and touchscreen. The games I play are fun and engaging. Games are big business and big business can use games to get bigger. 

How can they do this? Why does someone return to play a game again and again?