Over the weekend, I took time to go to the Harvest Money Expo (https://www.newvision.co.ug/tag/harvest-money-expo/) with the aim of getting some ideas to stimulate my mind with agribusiness opportunities. I awas fortunate to also meet with Robert Kabushenga, Dr Kisamba Mugerwa and Hon. Rosemary Sseninde. I did some personal introspection on why agribusiness for a technology […]
Boda boda registration – An approach for KCCA
There are job advertisements going all around social media for enumerators to support an exercise to register boda-boda drivers in Kampala city. These are thoughts on how the implementation can be done in a cost-effective manner, getting a reasonable return for the investment. Stakeholder engagement and management – outline the benefits of the registration to […]
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Software Delivery Skills Plan 2018
If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail! ~Benjamin Franklin A new year is upon me, and looking over the horizon I am looking to do the following work streams to help better my development skills 1. Work with a new age Javascript framework – vue.js seems the rage, this is also working […]
UgandaEMR Bootcamp – Strengthening the Foundation for a National EMR
This article was originally published on the METS website at http://mets.or.ug/ugandaemr-bootcamp-2017/ with photos courtesy of Nancy Karunganwa (https://twitter.com/Kanandra26) The week of November 20 – 24, 2017, was an exciting one for the EMR team at METS where we held the first UgandaEMR developer bootcamp, aimed at developing local capability to extend and build upon UgandaEMR. The […]
TechTip: Installing Airtel Uganda Huawei E3131 on MacOS Sierra
If you are like me, there comes a time when you need to whip out old tech tools to solve a need. In my case it was Internet access in Hoima, which has MTN and Airtel as useable networks. I have an old modem, which intially had a data simcard gone bad (that is a […]
National Digital eHealth Systems Maturity Model
My thoughts on this topic were fully crystallized at a WHO workshop to disseminate the Consolidated Guidelines on Person-Centered HIV Patient Monitoring and Case Surveillance, from June 18 to June 23, 2017, where one of the discussions centered on the state of national eHealth data collection and management systems. My thoughts on this model, were […]
Software Delivery Project Setup and Engineering Checklist
I have been a part of a number of software delivery projects, note emphasis on delivery not development, projects over the years and I thought I would share my checklist for projects as well as myths that need to be removed from teams for success. An interesting quote from a delivery manager I have worked […]
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TechTip: Dbunit Export from Jetbrains DataGrip
I am an avid test driven development (TDD) advocate nowadays, with a pragmatic slant of course, looking to bullet proof the features that I deliver to ensure that they do what is expected, and work out edge cases. A big challenge to testing is generating of test data, which is needed to setup some integration […]
Building and Maintaining Technical Documentation – Markdown with Gitbook Tooling
Building and Maintaining Technical Documentation using Markdown and Gitbook
11 Tools in my 2017 Bag
One month is down, so just wanted to share the tools that I am using in 2017 to get work done. I am writing a lot of software and documentation this year IntelliJ Idea Ultimate and Datagrip – I have licensed versions of the whole suite of IntelliJ IDEs, but I mainly use Idea for […]