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.
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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’ 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.
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.
OpenMRS Implementor Series 101 - Building a distribution package
I am not sure where this will end, however it is my way of giving back to the OpenMRS community that has provided an excellent learning platform and great support to me over the last 6 months, I have been using the software tools.
Syzygy - Release 2 - Uganda Mobile Money Cost Estimator
Syzygy is a Uganda focused utility calculator (launched by this post http://ssmusoke.com/2015/08/11/launching-syzygy-uganda-focused-utility-calculator/), this new release adds a tool not available anywhere else allowing you to estimate the costs of a mobile money transaction. Are you sending to a registered number, unregistered or trying to withdraw from an agent or ATM?
TechTip: Moving a Project Between Git Repositories
I tend to write these so that I do not forget them, and possibly to help others who may be face similar challenges. The question is why would somebody want to do this, well usually its because of a change in Git hosting providers or probably change in project ownership.
OpenMRS Module Development Learnings - 102
Update November 2018: This blog post has been superseded by the OpenMRS SDK (https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/docs/OpenMRS+SDK)
Trunk or Branch based development
An interesting discussion that I had with my team mates over the last few days, whether we should create branches then merge later or keep working on the trunk within our Git based version control process. As the team is small, we are in the same premises but different locations, we agreed to move to work exclusively on the mainline for the following reasons:
GeekDIY - Manually Upgrading Samsung S4 to Stock Android Lollipop 5.0.1
I would not consider myself an early adopter, neither am I a laggard, but somewhere in the middle for software upgrades. So when I heard that my Samsung Galaxy S4 would be getting Android Lollipop in December 2014, I was over the moon. What made me envious was that my colleagues with LG, Nexus and Sony devices were getting this update over the holidays.
Tech Tip: Fixing Camera Troubles on Mac
When you use your Mac camera across multiple applications, Go-To-Meeting, Skype, Fuse, Facetime etc, you will find that it tends to not work at times and only a reboot can fix that. Well it happens because probably one of the applications did not release the camera. To fix follow the steps below: