Ramblings of a father, husband, tech lover, amateur poet, book lover, who believes family makes him & culture holds all
I am curious about the ability to validate that the Uganda National Identification Number (NIN) is well formed. However this does not validate that the NIN actually belongs to the person presenting it or that it is correct. The rules that I have been able to gleam are: Must be 14 characters long First character is […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 using Markdown and Gitbook
