Projects 100 Days of Exam A new adventure is on its way: #100DaysOfExam which has been inspired by two factors. First, my personal 30-day challenges I did in the past and the concept of "100 Days of Code".
Linux Next stop: MCSA: Linux on Azure Recently I decided to coordinate my work and learning activities a little bit. Turns out that while working with .NET Core, in particular developing an API project, I do quite some coding under
Community Dinner with Andy Volk While exchanging with the nice GDG folks over at Google Nigeria about the possibility to get Google interested to assist during the annual Developers Conference of the MSCC, some magic happened again.
Linux ICT skills at primary school Our children have computer lectures at their primary school since this year. In general, it's a great idea that students are exposed to computer literacy at an early stage. But sometimes it comes
Community Infotech/InnovTech 2017 Infotech or commonly known as the annual IT tech bazaar in Mauritius was looking for possibilities to change in 2017 - moving away from the dominant sales activities during the past years back
Development Build anything with Google: Google Maps APIs Starting with a first integration of the Google Maps JavaScript API to add a map into your web site, you could add additional APIs and hence more value to your site and provide
Personal Hit Refresh Changing my life in such a drastic way was an experience of a life-time. It turned out for the better. I have no regrets about this decision, and I would do it again any time.
Community aOS Mauritius 2017 The aOS Community - aOS stands for Azure, Office 365 and SharePoint - organised their first full-day event in Mauritius. A team of international speakers came to talk about the advantages of an
Community Krakathon 2017 The Krakathon is like a hackathon but with a Kraken and a treasure! All teams found their treasure and rewards after this coding marathon. Personally, I'm glad to see that more and more opportunities like this are available in Mauritius.
General Inspecting internet router in Mauritius An internet modem provided by your service provider (ISP) might have some hidden gems. Eventually this article gives you some tips to improve your configuration in regards to security and safety.
Community InterCommunity 2017 Share more local content - Mauritius is still consuming more content than actually creating and sharing information. With better understanding and corporation between local service providers and a revised price structure this could be achieved soon, given the existing technology available today.
General Dear Postmaster of Mauritius Revenue Authority Using an invalid host name can cause problems. Host names must start with a letter, end with a letter or digit, and have as interior characters only letters, digits, and hyphen.
Community Career Guidance (Day) at Aberystwyth University I was invited to the Aberystwyth University Mauritius Branch Campus to talk about career guidance in front of CS students. Gladly, I shared my experience from almost 20 years in the IT business.
Development Integrate Google AdSense into your Ghost Ghost doesn't provide integration of Google AdSense out of the box in their default template. Adding and referencing a partial view can solve this issue and show affiliated advertisement on your site.
Community Tech Mentor at MIT Global Startup Lab in Mauritius It took almost four years from initial conversation between Dhaval and me until the first MIT Global Startup Lab was organised and launched in Mauritius. As a technological mentor I shared my experience and gave guidance to project team(s).
Personal I am Iron Man! Hovering over the sea like Iron Man is possible thanks to Flyboard. For my birthday I received a gift voucher from my wife. Such great fun in the water and in the air.
Linux Ghost Desktop on Xubuntu 17.04 won't start Ghost Desktop won't start on Debian/Ubuntu via the application menu or any other GUI launcher. Check permissions to fix the issue.
Development Migration to Ghost The article describes how to migrate content from Joomla 1.x to Ghost 1.x. Eventually, it might be partial but enough to modernise my blog.
Recension Learn to Code in Swift: The new language of iOS Apps by Kevin McNeish Only by looking at the table of content I knew that this is going to be a fun read. The book is actually structured like a set of full-day classes or better said a training workshop for beginners in Swift. It starts with the basic elements of Swift, then covers code workflow and finishes of with more advanced topics like closures and error handling.
General Mauritius Open Data Readiness Assessment (ODRA) Open Data has been initiated in Mauritius back in 2012, it is only this year that there seems to be more momentum towards an Open Data initiative.
General Working as an IT freelancer in Mauritius Working as a freelancer is eventually a dream situation for most people. But is it for everyone? What are the advantages and eventual obstacles to tackle in reward of some liberty and flexibility in life?
Community Launch Event: Windows 10 and Visual Studio 2015 Honestly, it's always great to attend social events for software developers, eh craftsmen. Those unique opportunities to meet with other geeks in the field are undenyable and there should be more events like this throughout the year. Apart from getting introduced to new peeps and got quite a number of questions regarding the past and future Developers Conference.
Linux Installing Visual Studio Code on Linux (Ubuntu) Linux users are currently confronted with some lack of comfort compared to their Windows and Mac OS X friends. Try Visual Studio Code under Linux...
Linux Ubuntu Jam at the University of Mauritius I have to admit that even though I use Microsoft Windows on a daily base to earn my living, I'm also using Linux since almost two decades on various machines. Together with different types of virtualisation I actually do not care whether an OS is running on bare-metal or inside a virtual machine.
General Live and let live - modern laziness... Remember, Rome wasn't built in a day and adventuring a journey of 1,000 miles starts with a first single step. And writing an article for your blog doesn't have to be done in one go...