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

PHP Frameworks Explored

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.

Google Site Down?

I have been trying to load the google.com search page but I keep getting the above error message on my browser. Looks like google.com is down for now…

Japan’s Broadband Success vs. US’s ahem…

Here is a great blog posting on why Japan has better, faster and cheaper broadband access compared to the US.

China In Africa… Africa Wins, Africa Loses…

The New York Times is running an article on China’s economic effects on Africa’s own economy. It is an interesting but not surprising to read that the fact that China is able to produce goods cheaper than African industry and export back to Africa, resulting in the closing of several textile factories is really not [...]

Zimbabwe’s Hyperinflation How It Came To Be

The BBC is running a great article on how Zimbabwe’s economy, which is the worst performing economy in the world, came to its current state. With serious food shortages and an inflation rate that has reached 5000%, the Zimbabwean government introduced a 200,000 Zimbabwe dollar note this week.
It is interesting to note that as a [...]

Making Money, One Small Step at a Time

This New York Times article titled ‘More Advice Graduates Don’t Want to Hear‘ shows you some small and simple but effective ways to save money towards your retirement…

Photosynth Demo at TED

Check out this demo at TED of Photosynth that was uploaded to YouTube. This is simply amazing!