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I have the privilege to be the Head of Development of Branded Internet, a white label ISP in South Africa. I also like to read and think about how startups work, and what they do to make them successful. As I see it, the basic recipe for a startup is:

1. Find a niche market or problem
2. Find a revolutionary / novel way to solve that problem
3. Build the solution
4. Market it
5. See the money roll in.

If you see the company you're developing for as your client or target market, software development follows basically the same recipe.…

I'm working on some statistics surrounding BI's API Documentation coverage: Just how much user documentation have we written?

When I started out, the number was abysmally low: 11% of the 1300 functions. Not good. But I didn't feel too bad when I realized that because it's written as an Object Orientated system, I can very quickly improve the coverage.…

Looking for a new challenge, I started a small project in node.js. Here's a few simple tips on how to get going quickly.…

I need to parse Emails in node.js and after looking around on the web, I didn't find much. Oh, no, I'll have to write it myself... :)

The source is hosted on GitHub .…

A a student I went to a career psychologist to explore my career needs and drives, and got told that I like solving problems in a creative way. As the son of an engineer and a very artsy mother, that kind of made sense. Seeing as I was already into computers and programming, I chose coding as my problem solving mechanism.…

I've setup zacoders.net that it will automatically tweet new RFC's. A while back this functionality stopped working. Today I investigated a bit further, and here's what I found.…

If you like simplicity, you might like to simplify your website's URL. You can do this by adding the following in your .htaccess file, or in the VirtualHost declaration on your Apache setup.

At long last I've been able to find the time to port my website from drupal to backend. Backend is a PHP framework I wrote myself and open sourced to get it out there.

I'm playing around with Google Gears, doing data imports, and generally playing around. I'm quite visiually oriented, so I need to SEE that the data has been added to a table. For my conventional PHP / MySQL apps, I usually use phpMyAdmin or the MySQL query browser, but for Gears developmen, which uses SQLite, I needed to use something else.…

Bakend: PHP framework, as it's now called, now has it's own website! Check it out at http://backend-php.net.