The definitive #mShwari guide for the average Kenyan

Nov 27, 2012 21 Comments by

What a beautiful day for science!! Another M-Something system launches today. Bliss!! I was invited at the launch event high-table, ofcourse, but after finding out gutter-press will be there, nikaamua ku-work online. Sitaki kuchafuliwa viatu. Wanamme ni standards. Ok. I can decide to copy-paste the 7-page document that Safaricom has sent me, ama I can [...]

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Using the “Taxi Driver’s Solution” get happier clients as a Coder

Nov 26, 2012 9 Comments by

Every single day, as a coder, you will face the same challenges as a Taxi/Cab Driver. If anything, we are dealing with clients, right? And clients are stupid, right? How about WRONG!? How about we look at this issue from an unselfish angle? Can we? Shall we? Coding is a new venture to most people [...]

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How to complete a software project in Kenya

Nov 12, 2012 7 Comments by

Yeah. I know. I am culprit too. Bohoohoo!! I know. I know. Chora blog. There are about 18 blog posts there about ‘software projects that Salim has not finished.’ Some are true. Some are just written by shoe-shiners who want to lecture us about how to code. Some are just plain vindictive. But from each, [...]

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Hard and tough lessons from the current mpesa outage

Oct 28, 2012 1 Comment

Today, I will use the word ‘hard’ in a very somber way. Ohh, it is a sad day for Kenya. Our motherland. And also for the few Mpesa users in our neighboring developing and non-developing countries like TZ and UG. Safaricom is not executing the 8400 Mpesa transactions. No. Not today. Kenya GDP has dropped by 0.0023 [...]

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