Eli Agbenu

  • Would you mind a little empathy?

    “You can be the best surgeon or the best hairdresser, but if you are not warm with people, you will not have a successful and happy life”. This quote is attributed to Sir Stanley Matthews. If I could wish for just one thing in the New Year for you, it is that you show more…

    Anthony Eli Agbenu

  • You want it all ? Hell no!

    To put it simply, employing cheap labor using cheap tools with crap to no motivation produces shoddy work. How can you get a first grade performer with those odds? Every good piece of work comes at a price. An artisan worth his salt would demand his rightful fee. With the fee in his pocket, he…

    Anthony Eli Agbenu

  • Stop overthinking and hurry up

    6:30 am “Please stand as we welcome today’s presiding minister” the lector said as I walked briskly into the church. By a few seconds I was not late. I was on time. Although it was not the way I would have wanted it to be, it was better than being late. I dislike being late.…

    Anthony Eli Agbenu

  • From Zero to Zendcredible

    The classic Disney movie Hercules, usually brings to the surface (for most people I know) the yearning to go the distance no matter how insurmountable the obstacles may seem. For that is all you need to go from a zero to a hero.  And with Zend, it takes you from a Zero to Zendcredible. Everyone…

    Anthony Eli Agbenu

  • Not forgetting financial literacy

    There are a very few universals in life. Concepts which are shared across the entire globe, and instantly understood. One of these is money. Is it retirement planning? Is it planning for your child’s university fees? Is it saving for a home? It almost boils down to money. As money can be hard to come…

    Anthony Eli Agbenu

  • Listen to experience

    I was doing a little programming, and kept hitting a road block. Just like I always do, I had written documentation down on why you would hit similar road blocks some weeks earlier. However my present self was in no mood to refer to be book long and revisit my literature. Neither was I interested…

    Anthony Eli Agbenu

  • How to listen better

    Hello, I would like to write on a subject that needs to be addressed much more. This is a major skill which gets overlooked too often. And that skill is listening. Everyone has to listen to someone. Employees listen to their boss. Developers have to listen to clients. Husband listen to their wives ( and vice…

    Anthony Eli Agbenu

  • Changing your WAMP files location

    Hello, This is a brief post on how to serve WAMP web files from a different location. You will know WAMP as the popular Windows utility that allows you to serve PHP files sitting on top of an Apache HTTP web server. It works with the MySQL DBMS, although your PHP project can be configured…

    Anthony Eli Agbenu

  • Multiple domain setup with Wndows and Apache

    Sometimes, you might have several projects you want to access on the same server. You might also want to access them via a user friendly address, instead of using the IP address. Accessing it through a server is possible only through 127.0.01. What if we want to access more than just one project on the…

    Anthony Eli Agbenu

  • Ports are like television channels

    This week’s post was inspired by an event that happened to me some time back. I was trying to scaffold an angular project. Unfortunately for me, it just was not my day. I kept going against a brick wall. After reading around for a bit, I realized that all I had to do was to…

    Anthony Eli Agbenu