Archive for March, 2009

Why I’m a Map Maker

In: GIS| Web Development

23 Mar 2009

I remember the first time I used Google Maps. I was thrilled with the ability to find places and locate them on a digital map. That was my first exposure to Geographic Information Systems. But I quickly grew out of it after a while and what was majorly because of the lack of localized information.
I [...]

Why every Web Developer needs an online presence

In: Web Development

20 Mar 2009

It’s simple – visibility.
Loy Okezie recently published a blog post listing a few of what he thinks to be the top 100 web developers in Nigeria. I found the comments to be very educative and interesting.
I happen to know virtually everyone on that list and while some comments on the site and elsewhere were such [...]

Internal web server access from the Internet

In: Web Development

20 Mar 2009

Here’s the synopsis, I have a web development machine that has a NAT connection to the Internet and what that means is that I cannot access the machine directly from the Internet. So if I wanted a friend or colleague to test my work or say I’m at someplace remote and want to be able [...]

Google’s Free SMS Search in Nigeria and Ghana

In: Mobile

3 Mar 2009

I can’t remember exactly how I stumbled upon (no pun intended) this very exciting news but I did realize that this had been out since January and I only got to know about it today and that’s precisely the reason why I’m blogging about it.
It’s come to my notice that a lot of good, exciting, [...]


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  • Ola White: Its what we've been waiting for for so long... Its time to get the buzz on... i just hope it w [...]
  • Kizito S.M.: What I gather is that this G-Buzz is something like a blend between Facebook Updates and Twitter fol [...]
  • concept37: They are trying to out-facebook facebook and out-twitter twitter, Folks who want to do these things [...]
  • ray: Funny u took it from the LBS angle, which makes better sense. But from the social networking perspec [...]
  • Ahmad Mukoshy: I've been using uniqid() for months now ;) #Lolz . I came across it on the php docs web site af [...]

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