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How not to learn how to code

Learning how to program is a very difficult task. The journey is not made easy by the fact that it can be months to years before you have anything to show for it. Entry level programmers have so much impatience…

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the broken technical interview process

I do not make the cut of best developers in the world. I highly doubt I would make the top 10%. What I have is a portfolio. My portfolio consists of over 50 projects that are used by 400,000 plus…

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How to go from zero to 10,000 app downloads

As app developers, we all dream of taking off and soaring among the stars. It is every app dev's goal to rack up downloads and ratings. This is easier said than done. At the time of penning this article, our…

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When user feedback ruins a product

Users are the holy grail. A product team will give up everything on its quest to gain just one more user. Once signed up, they'll do anything to keep that user. This also includes pleasing the user by honouring their…

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Paying the Bills with Adsense – African Edition pt 3

This article is part 4 of the series, you can read part 1 here, part 2 here, part 3 here, part 4 here. Welcome to part three of Paying the Bills with Adsense. This issue will be a short, 13…

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Paying the bills with Adsense – African Edition pt 2

This article is part 2 of the series, you can read part 1 here, part 2 here, part 3 here, part 4 here. In part 1 mentioned above, we looked at general advice and an overview of how one can…

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Zimbabwe, the country without Data

Where is our data? Last week I had an idea to pen an article concerning Econet and Cassava. These brands are in the top ten largest companies in Zimbabwe. The article required an id-depth analysis with numbers for an unbiased…

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Will the real mobile payment platform, please stand up

A quick Google Play Store search for the keyword Zimbabwe will give us a results page with 250 apps. Going through the majority of the apps, we can see that they are definitely made for Zimbabweans by Zimbo devs. Applying…

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The ones that failed

There is a website dedicated to just tracking all of the projects that Google has tried and failed. The website has over 100 projects. I am thinking someone should do something similar for Econet. Their track record seems to be…

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Paying the bills with Adsense – African Edition

This article is part 1 of the series, you can read part 1 here, part 2 here, part 3 here, part 4 here. Let's just get this out of the way right now: Google Adsense is not a get rich…

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