• People don’t download apps anymore

    Nobody downloads apps anymore. It’s a truth that app developers have to start accepting. The obvious questions then becomes “why don’t people download more apps these days?”  The last sentence contained one word with the answer. The answer is in the word “more”. More apps means more space is consumed on the users’ phone. This…


  • Zend framework as your next PHP enterprise framework

    Are you shopping for a PHP framework for your next enterprise app? Usually, when you say enterprise, languages like C sharp and Java spring quickly to mind. Today let’s consider using a different language. Let’s opt for the world’s most used language on the web (that being PHP), and use that in your company. One…


  • 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…


  • 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…


  • 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…


  • 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…


  • Syntax or semantics

    Only in relation to this topic, what would I say is syntax? Syntax is the arrangement of the code and its organization of file paths, class files and so on and forth. What then is semantics? Semantics is the meaning of the code written. Now we have gotten that out of the way, let’s start…


  • Moving forward means unity

    The best way to move is to work together. Remember team work makes dreams work. This principle of unity applies not just in team work, nor in programming. It cuts across all areas of life. It applies in marriage It applies at work It applies in the classes of your code It applies in life…


  • Variable names are not the same

    The image above is funny. Two things might be similar, but they are not the same. Some years back, I was at a bank and I was told that Eli Agbenu is not the same as Anthony Eli Agbenu. Wow, so that meant I could not withdraw money. Yeah , go figure. It is the…


  • I’ve got 9 bugs and yours ain’t one

    I am sure this title reminds you of Jay Z’s song 99 problems and my bitch ain’t one. I initially thought about writing on 99 errors. However I chose not to waste both our time, ( since we both have work to do ) and to keep the list short. That is why we are…