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".
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
Community Introduction to Mauritius Software Craftsmanship Community The MSCC is technology-agnostic community and spans an umbrella over any kind of technology. Simply because you can't ignore other technologies anymore in a connected IT world as we have. A front-end developer for iOS applications should have the chance to connect with a Python back-end coder and eventually with a DBA for MySQL or PostgreSQL and exchange their experience.
