The African Globalist touches on issues brought about by the convergence of technology, open markets and global business strategy. It also chronicles lessons learned on an ongoing projects including a web-based content management system in PHP, ASP.Net development and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server
I have spent the last two days trying to configure a new install of PHP 5.2 to work on with my new local install of Xitami web server. This was not a great experience simply because I could not get PHP to work satisfactorily with Xitami.
What’s even worse is that there is no longer [...]
Posted on December 28th, 2007 by andai
Filed under: .Net, ASP.Net, C#, CMS, Content Management Systems, MySQL, PHP, Web Development | No Comments »
I am done with the initial base templates I plan to use.
Currently the templates are straight XHTML and CSS but I will have to incorporate some PHP code in them. However before I can do this, I must first turn my attention back to the PHP classes that I had started developing.
The plan now is [...]
Posted on October 21st, 2007 by andai
Filed under: Database, Development, PHP, Web Development | No Comments »
I have been neglecting my personal web development for a while now simply due to work pressures and other commitments… but now that I am picking it up, I thought it would be nice to keep an open blog of my progress as I go along. There are a number of reasons for this based [...]
Posted on August 25th, 2007 by andai
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There are times when you want to generate a random number that is between a certain range, for example, between ‘x’ and ‘y’ where ‘y’ is larger than ‘x’. Many coding languages will have a random number generator and so creating a random number in theory using the native built in language function is not [...]
Posted on May 19th, 2007 by andai
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I have been looking on the web for articles describing Web Part, Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server (MOSS) and Excel Services. I really like this article on the Apress blog that does a great job in of explaining what Excel Services in a simple and clear way and how to publish an Excel 2007 spreadsheet [...]
Posted on March 6th, 2007 by andai
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Although my schedule as been really busy, I have been working on redesigning the Andai Consulting website. There are a couple of reasons why I am doing this.
First, I decided that the basic layout and design needed to be changed, or updated if you will and the links, client lists, portfolio list etc all [...]
Posted on March 3rd, 2007 by andai
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