This blog post has been inspired by events, not to me, but to a colleague of mine. Our discussion, was interesting, funny and insightful, but I thought hey why not share my experiences and what I use to teach others how to live a safer, “backup” driven life. I live on Murphy’s law, for those […]
Mapping Adventures Day 1 – Introduction and Open Street Map
Mapping has grown by leaps and bounds, from the introduction of Google Maps, what was once the ode of cartographers and GIS experts is now available to the common folk like me 🙂 So wanting to learn how to map is one thing, getting the chance to do it is another, until well Fruits of […]
Display Contents of Different File Formats Word/Excel/Powerpoint/PDF/RTF as HTML
This is a typical problem which I also raised on Stack Overflow (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11061929/php-extract-text-from-different-file-formats-word-excel-powerpoint-pdf-rtf#comment14475398_11061929), but there seemed no single resource around the web to solve this particular problem, so since I have solved it I thought it would make sense to provide an approach and a solution, it can be refined better with time Problem:Â We have […]
Career Changes, New Opportunities and Challenges
June 2012 is here and well along with it comes some changes to my career (have not had any for the last 12 years), and while it brings up a host of new opportunities there is a swathe of new challenges too. So where do I start, I have been leading a team of software […]
MeetMTN – MTN Uganda Executive Management Town Hall Meeting
Well 2012 is upon us, and the incubmbent US President Barack Obama, has started his battle for a second term in office, so that he can complete the change that he promised the American people. The battle for his first term was epic, first against Ms. Hillary Clinton, which intially changed from a David vs […]
Opinion: Microsoft Demise being Overrated but they are still a Major Player
This post was intially a comment on this Mashable post Why Microsoft Is Being Left in the Dust but I figured it was too long and needed its own post The demise of Microsoft has been predicted continuously over the last 20 years however what most commentators forget is that Microsoft innovates best when its the […]
Startup Weekend Day 3 – 60 sec pitch, Customer Validation, Business Value, Wrap Up and Lessons Learnt
Day 3 of the weekend was entirely focused on validating the target customers, revenue numbers, business models and completing the proof of concepts for the pitches to the judges at the end of the day. How did the morning begin, well we found out that we did not have to develop a platform as there was one […]
Startup Weekend Day 2 – Platform, Mentors, Coding, Product Positioning, Decisions during Execution
Day 2 started well, but what I can say is that it was a rollercoaster of a day I must say with ups and downs but well here it is. The day started early as there was a lot of energy from the night before, I got to the venue by 8:00am checked in and […]
Startup Weekend Kampala – Day 1 – Ideas, Pitches, Teams
This was my first time at a Startup Weekend or a Hackathon so I was looking forward to the experience and to see what really goes on under the hood at this event. So why was I here, well I have had this idea brewing in my head for a long time and so I […]
Databud – Startup Weekend Kampala – April 27 to 29
I will be attending my first startup weekend in Kampala, on April 27, 2012 to April 29, 2012 and well I thought that why not share my pitch and get advice on how to refine it. No idea is great unless shared right? In the absence of #opendata in Uganda, there is a whole lot […]