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
Redis Cache – Potential Chernobyl in your Architecture
Redis cache, so fast, so easy to setup but a potential Chernobyl, lying within your system. The problem comes when the Redis cache is used as a permanent store of values within your system, so applications and services get to use it as stable source of truth. This is an easy trap to fall into […]
Additional Advice for Avoiding Costly Mistakes During Home Construction
Kakande Alex has an interesting post today on his substack channel Tips for Avoiding Costly Mistakes During Construction which I felt was very high level and not providing real strategies and tactics for getting through the construction process. The first aspect of construction for a home to understand is that it is a process of […]
Automating the Deployment and Scheduled Execution of an R script on a VPS using Laravel Forge
I love data, its in my blood, I love analysing, cleaning it and preparing it for others to use, still have to get to the last mile to displaying and visualizing it but that is a story for another day 2024 for me is the year of “automation”, for everything that I do. I have […]
Starting A Family Through Marriage in Buganda
This article was initially published on Facebook Notes in 2010, but seems to have been deleted fortunately I found a backup version so publishing it here for the world The centerpiece of Ganda culture, in-line with other ancient civilizations, Greece, Egypt and Rome, is family; it provides the core support for growth and development of […]
How Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) can Engage, Develop and Support the Development of LocalTechnology Community from 2013
This resurfaced as a discussion on challenges with the URA Portal performance, so I dug back into my archives and found the concept note for this almost a decade ago – bringing it back into the open
Copying files from Mac to Android- 2023 Edition
I just got a new phone, and I needed to copy some files over from my old phone SD card onto my new phone’s self storage. There did not seem an easy way so I decided to do it old the fashioned way I had not done this for a couple of time, and Android […]