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Launching Syzygy – Uganda Focused Utility Calculator

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Just as Google has rebranded into Alphabet, on behalf of Styx Technology Group I would like to officially announce the launching of Syzygy which is a platform for a comprehensive utility calculator for Uganda based on PAYE Calculator (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.databud.payecalculator) which was released by myself in 2012. There are many calculators and utility apps out there, […]

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Startup Weekend Day 3 – 60 sec pitch, Customer Validation, Business Value, Wrap Up and Lessons Learnt

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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 […]

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Startup Weekend Day 2 – Platform, Mentors, Coding, Product Positioning, Decisions during Execution

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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 […]

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The Poor Man’s Job Queue

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Not all software development projects are treated the same, some have access to modern tech Virtual Private Servers (VPS), Zend Server (http://www.zend.com/products/server/), Memcached, Gearman and all the other goodies I can only dream of. You have a box with LAMP, and you cannot install anything else. This is an example of how we got around […]

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HTML Web Toolkits – Twitter Bootstrap

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Well it seems like I have been doing a rip and replace of most of the “homegrown” components that we are using in our environments as we gear up for the new year. The latest to fall to the axe is our HTML + CSS + widget collection that has been growing over the years […]

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Doctrine 2 – Day 2 – Model Validation using Symfony Validator Service in Zend Framework

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It is just Day 2 of my experiences in the trenches, regular work, had kept me from this but I managed to get some time to keep digging. As a followup to my Doctrine 2 – Day 1 – Commentary from the Trenches. The models are up and configured, and the unit testing is setup […]

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State of PHP Feb 2012 – Symfony 2, Zend Framework 2, IDE Support, MySQL

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There is just too much going on so I thought I should put these thoughts down so that I do not lose my mind from the excitement and anticipation that comes from things moving very fast and innovation being spured at a pace which is mind boggling. PHP In my opinion the stabilization of PHP […]

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MTN Uganda, Mobile Money and Operations Issues

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I am not one to rant and rave but I seem to have been pushed over the edge this morning, but a large Telco service which leaves a lot to be desired yet despite being innovative seem to be leading more and more wastage in terms of time which would be used for more productive […]

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Doctrine2 – Day 1 – Commentary from the Trenches

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The new year is here so it is time to get cracking on infrastructure for the year’s development projects. There are a number of things we have been putting off, but now that a number of our client hosts support PHP 5.3, it is the right time to move up the stack for our ORM […]

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Joomla Tip – Custom Content Integration with Jumi

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Just wanted to share a Joomla (1.7) tip on how we were able to integrate custom content from an external web application with custom PHP code via the Jumi component and plugin (http://bit.ly/wWIQmz). Joomla by default does not allow custom PHP code to be added to articles (content pages) functionality which is provided by the […]

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