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USSD API on Android
I’m currently trying to build a small widget that shows you several statistics about your cell phone usage, this would require using USSD codes and catching their responses. I scoured the internet for...
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Name a tech incubator assisted local (Egyptian/Arab) startup that is revenue...
Name a tech incubator assisted local (Egyptian/Arab) startup that is revenue positive? *bey2ollak/wasalny dont qualify
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On Repositories and Data Consistency
Like it or not data drift is a fact most telecoms have to live with, as a matter of fact any enterprise serving customers in near real time is bound to suffer from a certain degree of data drift...
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Galapagos Software Syndrom
Galápagos syndrome is a term of Japanese origin, which refers to an isolated development branch of a globally available product. The term is a reference to similar phenomena Charles Darwin encountered...
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The rise of the co-Founders
It is no longer a technology race, its a marketing race. Almost any software can be built or copied at a similar quality, its all up to marketing and customer grabbing at early stages of the product...
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Using FizzBuzz to Find Developers who Grok Coding
Originally posted on Imran On Tech: On occasion you meet a developer who seems like a solid programmer. They know their theory, they know their language. They can have a reasonable conversation about...
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The Solution Designer’s Bag
As a solution designer I spend a substantial portion of my workday in meetings, Travelling between buildings within the company’s campus. With the focus on delivering presentation and taking notes my...
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Twitter is the result of Failure
Twitter was the result of the failure of a podcast related startup “Odeo”…had Odeo succeeded we’d have ended up with a cool podcast app and no Twitter Odeo, 2005 In late 2005 Michael Arrington wrote an...
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Particle Photon First Impressions
The particle photon maker kit I ordered arrived and I finally was able to take it for a spin and I’m quite impressed. A tiny wifi enabled chip that can realise almost any IoT fantasy you conceive,...
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Particle Photon Powered Physical Notifications Device
Having just received my photon maker kit I wanted to build a simple project to show case the photon’s capabilities and so I decided to build a photon powered RGB lantern which I’d light up using IFTTT...
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Extracting DM Images Over Twitter API
Extracting images from received DMs over twitter API has proven to be rather tricky and there aren’t enough information on how to do it. In this entry I’m going to explain how to achieve that...
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Solution Architecture Blog
I launched a sister blog to this focused on solution architecture Thoughts on Solution Architecture blog will be much more focused than this blog which I’ve always considered a catchall that I used to...
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Deploying A Mobile APP in an Enterprise Environment
The use of mobile application on consumer grade devices is increasing in popularity as more and more companies are using customised apps on mobile devices for field purposes instead of using a purpose...
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Downloading Torrents Remotely
I’ve set up a home server and wanting a simple straight forward way to download torrents remotely I relied on an old hack I’ve heard about but never attempted. You can configure transmission the...
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Delivery PipeLine Approach (CoD)
Usually there are many projects waiting in the delivery queue, in most cases the HiPPO method is what determines their relative priority and thus the order they are implemented in. Pet projects take...
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Digital Telecoms Explained
Digital is the new frontier in the telecom industry with digital transformation projects becoming a commonality among telcos, but what exactly is a digital telecom ? A good starting would be defining...
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Toxic Technology Behavior
Over my career I observed this behavior in more than one company; the only difference between one company to another is how prevalent this behavior is. Its a cancer that slowly spreads in the company...
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Automating the Nespresso Coffee Machine part 1
I like drinking coffee first thing in the morning, however preparing coffee in the early morning is not something I’m a big fan of, so I decided to use my particle photon to automate the coffee making...
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Automating the Nespresso Coffee Machine Part 2
Architecture Step 1: Follow the steps in my previous blog entry to connect the Nespresso machine to the internet using particle photon and a servo. Step 2: Now we build an API.AI agent to handle the...
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