The AcquiredFM podcasts on Microsoft were excellent, I listened to them in this order In 2012 I wrote a quick rebuttal on my thoughts as to why Microsoft is still a major player, I think I was only off by the mobile play here https://ssmusoke.com/2012/05/12/opinion-microsoft-demise-being-overrated-but-they-are-still-a-major-player/ However the areas that I think the podcast may have […]
Low-Hanging Fruit
This post was inspired by an avocado tree in my compound at home over the last couple of days. How did we get here, and what are the implications? I spent a year aggressively pruning the top of the tree bringing it down to about 4m high, so the tree spread its branches low and […]
OpenData Sandbox – an experiment on possibilities
I have had an itch for quite a while to make available useful APIs in a practical and user-friendly manner (the best I can do with general design skills) for data that is available in PDFs, yes our government folks love this for sharing data … An opportunity came when a colleague shared a file […]
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How Developers can survive and thrive in the turbulent times ahead in 2025
The excellent technology community team at Africa Is Talking (https://africastalking.com/) asked me to give a talk on my insights into the rapidly changing technology space leading into 2025 beyond I had a great time sharing and below are the recording and presentation from the evening