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 […]
Tech Tip: Reducing pain while moving from Yahoo to Gmail
Its official that Yahoo has been hacked, http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/14/technology/yahoo-hack.html?_r=0, and it is time to make that change from Yahoo to another email address. For a free service, looks like Gmail is the best there is at this time. My quick guide to reducing the migration pain is as follows: Step 1: Start adding your Gmail to all […]
Styx Technology Group Launches Poultry Farm Revenue Calculator App
As part of the Styx Technology Group mission to leverage technology to support executives identify, implement & refine strategic technology interventions in their business & target market segments, we are proud to partner with Kkungu Poultry Farm Enterprises Ltd to help bring relevant, useable cutting edge technology to Uganda agriculture executives. Leveraging the experiences shared […]
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Alternate Approach to Legal Independent Election Tallying
The Uganda elections are more or less over with less than 6 hours for the Uganda Electoral Commission (EC) to announce the results for the presidential elections. Given all the time on our hands, with no social media, the team at Styx Technology Group designed the following alternative approach to independent electoral vote tallying for future elections that provides […]
Different View: The Difference Between a Programmer, a Hacker, and a Developer
Insomia is not always a bad thing after all, I got to read Daniel Miessler’s article – The Difference Between a Programmer, a Hacker, and a Developer which I think is a good primer, but flawed in the assumption of formal education for developers. My experience has been: A developer does always not have to be formally trained, […]
Versatile Blogger Award
I have been nominated by Jemima Nalumansi who has the full list of how the nomination got to me akin to walking like the Muganda lady of the Ffumbe clan (http://www.ffumbeclan.org/) she is, so anyway a tough challenge she put up to me but I have to rise up not to disappoint…. The rules of engagement: Thank […]
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Tech Tip: Websites on Github with Jekyll
We have been facing a challenge on how to manage the Styx Technology Group corporate website without having dedicated resources to host, deal with security, updates and maintenance. Having been in the website business for over a decade at the turn of Y2K, having an easily maintainable solution was key for the long haul. Enter GitHub pages […]