Making the most of your holidays
School holidays are here. Spontaneous celebrations all around. Shouts of joy ring out from every mountain-top. If boda bodas could ride on one wheel, they would do it to show you just how happy they are for you. Now you can rest. Also, school holidays bring you one step closer to your position of leadership […]
Jaguza | Free Responsive WordPress theme
If you are looking for a free, responsive WordPress theme for your blog, Jaguza is a great choice. It is clean, fast and very easy-to-use. The theme comes loaded with quite a number of features that are usually a reserve for premium themes. Features Check out the list: Unlimited theme colour options with over 10 pre-built theme colours. […]
I deleted my site. Boohoo
This is me starting over. I didn’t delete the site actually…I changed web host a few days ago and one of the movers dropped my database. That’s over a year’s work gone. Why didn’t I have backups upon backups of my work? I honestly just never got round to it; I coded the site and made several […]
WordPress Must-Have plugins
In as much as I have a no plugin law here, I do believe there are exceptions to the rule based on the kind of site you run. All sites Akismet Spam protection. It comes pre-bundled with your WordPress installation WordPress SEO by Yoast For Search-Engine Optimization (SEO) Blog Disqus For comments Autochimp To send out […]
WordPress No Plugin Policy
I generally ensure that a site runs as few plugins as possible. Generally: No. of plugins Rating 0-5 5-star 5-10 4-star 10-15 […]
How to run a conference
Have you run a conference/seminar/workshop/gathering before? You haven’t? Are you planning one? That pregnant pause counts as a yes. You are in luck. Today, we help you skip a lot of hurdles average folk have to battle with to get their conference off the ground. You, dear reader, are not average-you read this column after-all. […]
Alternative sources of income
Following the signing of the controversial anti-gays Bill into law, several nations and organisations that have been partly funding the nation expressed a drop in their zeal to continue doing so. They said, “I don’t know how to say this but… It’s not me really, it is you. This isn’t working.” Several informed pundits have […]
[Android dev tutorial] Setting up an App-Engine Connected app. The Hiccups
If you are one who wants your android app to scale massively without worrying about loosing sleep over database & server issues (and a host of other ailments that come from staying up too late worrying), hooking it app with an App engine backend is a smart thing to do. It let’s you focus on […]
7 steps to iPads mastery
Not so long ago, in a land where the sun never sets and money grows on trees that there is so much and the powers that be choose to send some abroad to buy expensive gadgets for people who do not use them. Here, the average man’s major problem is whether his MP is reading […]
A case for iPads
I know, I’m late to the bashing-MPs-for-getting-iPads party. Now that I’m here, where are the drinks? I’d like a seat too. All the bashing out of the way, do you know why your MP needs an iPad? Read on. Better dress sense The glossy images our beloved leaders are going to be exposed to with […]