This post was created to assist some colleagues in Afghanistan, who are creating a server for running Laravel. My experience is with Wordpress, but the principles should be the same.
Yearly Archives: 2019
Background In a previous post, I said that if you want to get rich, hack what we eat. Statistica just published a chart showing the estimated alternative meat sales in the USA and parts of Europe in 2018. As you can see, it is already a huge growth area, with […]
Almost everything we do at Kenga Solutions is done with open source software, including images, presentations and videos. All of these make use of some kind of graphic design elements. I was recently asked what we use, so here is a short blog post to answer the question.
Recently, Kenga Solutions was called on by Consilium Academy to develop a website that would be used to offer blended learning courses, courses which were mainly face-to-face, but that had to be purchased online and supported with eLearning technology.
MIT Technology Review sat down with Bill Gates to discuss his picks for the 2019 Breakthrough Technology. The list is pretty interesting, and something about which anyone with an interest in technology should think.
Chad Fowler, General Manager of Developer Advocacy at Microsoft and well known figure in the software world, recently gave a talk entitled The Future Of Software Development. Chad is described as an internationally known software developer, trainer, manager, speaker, and musician.
The full title of this talk was “Adapting IT Governance Frameworks to Ensure Control and Visibility of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)”. It was given at the 3rd Government CIO Summit which took place in Cape Town, 27- 30 May 2013. In it I talked about using metrics to […]
There is no doubt that the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) policy of the South African government has been a colossal failure, yet another victim of the Zuma years. One wonders, now that we are moving beyond the Zumafication years, with massive corruption and state capture, whether our FOSS policy can be rekindled. Perhaps it could be in the context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), where free and open thinking could have a positive impact on our ability as a nation to claim some of the new technology developments. It need not be just software, free and open can apply to anything.
An ecosystem approach to ICT implementation in SA higher educational institutions was prepared for the SAICTED Flash MOOC, Managing ICTs in South African Education, that took place, Saturday 12th October 2013.
If your company is a startup working in the fintech industry, or any industry where customer data is captured and used, chances are that there are a set of policies and procedures with which you have to demonstrate compliance. Like most startups, you probably have struggled with compliance, after all, […]