I've been working in Design and Development for the past 20 years, using my skills in both disciplines to help facilitate communication between teams, giving my developers a fresh perspective on designs and bringing my designers to a level of maximum effectiveness.
I believe that it's important to work on fun, interesting things outside the work environment. The only way we improve is through experimentation and play, and it's difficult to do that on larger, corporate clients. Here are two examples of side projects I've put together for fun.