How to customize Android product flavour app name, strings, styles and the manifest
Android development has a powerful feature that allows you to modify an Android application and make it possible for it to be customized and deployed…
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How to use a GoDaddy Domain with an AWS load balancer
I have hosted domains on GoDaddy for a number of years now. While it provides web hosting, I have never used any of their hosting…
[Events] Principles of collaboration and development cycles
Over the next two days, I’ll be a part of two events I’m pretty thrilled about.  Tomorrow, I’ll co-facilitate a talk on the principles of…
WordPress Child theme – Inheriting parent options
When building a WordPress child theme, it’s important for it to, at least initially, pick-up the settings from the parent theme. Here’s something that works…
Why you should sign-up for the MTN App Challenge
The MTN App Challenge will take place from 29th-31st May, 2015. One weekend of all-out geekery. Fast internet, no sleep, free food and the Mobile…
Create Google Charts using MySQL data
While trying to create my own Google charts using MySQL data, the closest solution I found was this in Google’s documentation on how to do…
Interview with cloud architect Bas Moussa
Bas Moussa is the Chief Architect at Nuvole Computing LLC, a cloud consulting firm in San Francisco. He designed the firm’s reference architecture that implements…
Add WordPress Related Posts without a plugin
There are several articles out there on how to add WordPress related posts without using a plugin. I’m adding one more to the fray only…
[WordPress Plugin Development] Handling Forms
There are some great resources on how best to add a form to your plugin. Notably, there’s this from Tutsplus (They write very solid tutorials;…
Feature Friday | SwiftKey
Today I start something I’ve wanted to do for a while – sharing what apps are awesome. Every Friday, I’ll share an app. The idea…