A while ago I was involved in a project at Clyral where we developed a web based support ticketing system (similar to Zendesk). One of the things we focused on was dealing with the detection of new content i...

  I have a powershell script that is executed as a Cruise Control.NET task.  The problem is, the script sat in a length path with spaces in some of the folder names.  The “powershell” task...

  We noticed in our error logs that we were getting quite a few of these good old errors:"Cannot redirect after HTTP headers have been sent."This wasn’t affecting our system from a usability point of ...

We’ve recently started using FogBugz to track the work we do. It’s early days, but we’re hoping FogBugz’s Evidence Based Scheduling (EBS) feature will be able assist us to schedule our sprints better...

  I had a freaking nightmare deploying an MVC3 app today.  Seems simple.  Database was up and running.  The code was deployed and had been tested on our local systems.  I deployed vi...

The Government of Lesotho uses Mobile Researcher to conduct a household census for it's National Information System for Social Assistance. Phase 1 will target an initial 25,000 households.

"Tackling poverty one mobile task at a time" is the story of how Mobenzi came about and a somewhat personal perspective of the events which led to my involvement in the project.

On Tuesday, 25 January 2011 we will be deploying a major update to the Analytics section. The Analytics section provides access to raw data, reports and export functionality for all your data collected using...

PHASA brings together researchers and public health professionals from around the country. As valuable as the conference is in its current form, perhaps a great addition would be the creation of a forum on t...

It’s inevitable. If you are a web developer, at some point in time, you are going to be stuck with the problem of migrating a system between internet service providers. At that point you will discover ...

Travelling to KwaNyuswa, through the Valley of A Thousand Hills was a journey that taught me a vital life lesson: There is a solution to almost every problem, and finding that solution can make you proud. Th...

There is a tendency with most creative people I know to aspire for the approval of peers. This is natural, as we are all insecure and desire encouragement from people we respect. But it is possible, and ofte...

Sometimes software testing can be an arduous exercise. But occasionally, when you have the opportunity to launch a web and mobile pizza ordering system, it's a rewarding process.

During a press event we held recently, we got a chance to get qualitative feedback from some of our agents about Mobenzi and what it means to them. At the time the majority of the tasks they were completing ...

In 2004 I registered Clyral as a company. Believe it or not, this was after much thought and debate over an appropriate name for the organistion. I have been asked many times about the origin of the name and...

I read an interesting post from Steve Song earlier entitled “Why SMS in Africa” which outlines why SMS will remain relevant in the African context for some time to come. I agree with Steve that b...

Being the first day of 2010 and with the prospect of returning to work (full time) on Monday, I thought it was a good opportunity to jot down a quick post to reflect on the ups, downs, successes and challeng...

Like most off the shelf software products, Ecommerce packages, whether proprietary or open source, can be very affordable and feature rich in comparison to entry-level custom developed solutions. The comprom...