Business Tech Catalyst

The Business Tech Catalyst helps to transform a small businesses using modern tech tools. In this course, I’ll share simplified strategies and tutorials to help every day, non-technical entrepreneurs streamline and get more out of their businesses using technology

SFFG Mastermind

The Straight Forward Financial Growth (SFFG) program exists  to help 1,000,000 people change their financial story by giving them tools to manage their personal and business finances better. It is based on the book Straight Forward Financial Growth by Moses Mukisa. A mastermind will help you: Review and grow your income streams Evaluate your expenses […]

Ahead of Facebook Dev Circle Ask Me Anything session

I’ll be hosted by the Kampala Facebook Developer Circle to an Ask Me Anything session. To give context for some questions, here’s a bit more about me and my journey as a software engineer in Uganda: A friend, Andrew, and I had an idea to start a job-matching/sports-betting site in our S.6 vacation. I say […]

Virtualbox in Secure Boot Kernel upgrade error

If you run Ubuntu (and probably many other Linux distros) and you run virtualbox/vagrant and have Secure Boot enabled, you are likely to run into the following error every time you upgrade your Kernel (which in Ubuntu’s case is very often): If you use vvv for WordPress development, you’ll run into this quite often.   […]

Unqualified

I’ve had the honour of serving on a number of job interview panels. I’m that last guy on the panel who doesn’t smile and grunts after every answer you give. The one who sips very loudly from his glass of water; so loud, the room asks you to repeat everything you said while he sipped. […]

Are you silently slaying giants?

There’s this interesting passage in the Good book: After this, war broke out with the Philistines at Gezer. As they fought, Sibbecai from Hushah killed Saph, a descendant of the giants, and so the Philistines were subdued. During another battle with the Philistines, Elhanan son of Jair killed Lahmi, the brother of Goliath of Gath. […]

To little infinities

One of my favourite movie quotes is from The Fault in Our Stars, in which the terminally ill heroine says to her love who won’t live long, “There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There’s .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection of others. Of course, there is a bigger infinite set […]

[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 collaboration, scale and development cycles. The talk will be at the Outbox Hub from 5:30 to 08:00 PM. The main facilitator will be Bas Moussa, a good friend and the […]

Starting over…and UBHH

In September last year, I stopped writing a weekly humour and satire column for The Sunday Monitor. By The Way had run 4 years at the time. It felt like I was on the wrong side of the submission deadline every week and the regular owe dance wasn’t doing it for me anymore. The owe […]

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 to allow your child theme to, on activation, retrieve the parent’s theme options: Note that there’s still an unresolved WordPress ticket to have this feature added to core: WordPress Ticket […]