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

Getting Back to Posting on a Regular Basis

It has been a while since I have been able to do any decent blog posts. Since I have been working on other projects, consulting and personal and I have just been too busy to update this blog… but I am back…
To start off, I have been thinking about a couple of programming languages, more [...]

Most Incredible Data Recovery Completed

Scientific America is reporting that “researchers have finally published the results of data recovered from a cracked and singed hard drive that fell to Earth in the debris from the Space Shuttle Columbia, which broke up during reentry on February 1, 2003, killing all seven crew members”

SharePoint’s SharePoint.Security Error and Custom Dlls

I have been fighting with a permissions issue with SharePoint today. What’s been happening is that I have a custom dll that I created which will load just fine if I don’t really have it do anything. However, once it starts running code that accesses the SharePoint Object model, then I get the SharePoint.Security error. [...]

Tech Giants, Please Tear Down Those Walls!

The Times Online has a great articles on big three technology companies, Apple, MySpace and Nokia, and their decisions to open up their web platforms and allow other parties develop services that leverage their platforms.
This decision is long over due. In this day and age, I find it amazing that many of these large internet [...]

Kenya’s Fiber Optic Cable Deal Awarded

Finally! Looks like Kenya is moving ahead with the fiber optic cable deal. Hopefully this will help lower costs and certainly increase connection speeds in Kenya.

Exploring PHP Frameworks

Duane O’Brien, freelance developer, is running a series of articles on PHP frameworks that promises to be very informative and useful to web developers.

Corporate America Lost the Art of Strategy?

I find this article posted on the Financial Times website rather astounding….