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Tim Akinbo's Blog : Here's how to get your Kindle Fire from Nigeria

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:01:32 +0000

Your mileage may vary. However, you'll get a better deal with Impex.

Tim Akinbo's Blog : Here's how to get your Kindle Fire from Nigeria

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:00:37 +0000

Hi Simon, I made use of the GTB Visa dollar card.

Tim Akinbo's Blog : Top 10 technology predictions for 2012

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:05:42 +0000

@Kizito thanks for your comments. Connectivity is definitely an issue but that doesn't remove the benefits cloud computing and bring especially on an entreprise level. When my bank is doing reconciliations for the day, their electronic channels are usually unavailable for hours. If these tasks were outsourced to cloud computing platforms, that time can be reduced dramatically.

Tim Akinbo's Blog : Top 10 technology predictions for 2012

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:47:16 +0000

Tim Akinbo's Blog : Mobile Analytics is broken and how to fix it

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:42:47 +0000

@seyitaylor you're right about how the mobile web is somewhat divergent in terms of experiences for both users in the third world vs other advanced countries. This, in my opinion creates an opportunity for local software entrepreneurs to create solutions that work in this market.

Tim Akinbo's Blog : Here's how to get your Kindle Fire from Nigeria

Sun, 1 Jan 2012 09:52:44 +0000

My GTB address is a Nigerian address and that\\\'s also my billing address on Amazon.com but my shipping address is the Impex address.

Tim Akinbo's Blog : Here's how to get your Kindle Fire from Nigeria

Sun, 1 Jan 2012 09:50:51 +0000

The pleasure\\\'s mine.

Tim Akinbo's Blog : Mobitel: All sweet talk

Wed, 7 Sep 2011 10:49:41 +0000

Granted, Swift doesn't get as fast at Mobitel (on some weekends) but the reliability and quality of service is just something that they (Mobitel) have to work on. The complaints are getting too much.

Tim Akinbo's Blog : Using git hooks to check syntax errors

Thu, 9 Dec 2010 09:35:44 +0000

Which versions are you using? The bash script hook or the PHP one. Also, which files are you trying to commit to the repository?

Tim Akinbo's Blog : Is there still a market for ringtones in Nigeria?

Sat, 27 Nov 2010 23:31:29 +0000

@Seye I think what sells now are ringback tunes. I guess that\\\'s something users cannot easily do themselves and so a viable business venture for the operators and content providers as well.

Tim Akinbo's Blog : Is there still a market for ringtones in Nigeria?

Sat, 27 Nov 2010 23:31:00 +0000

Thanks @Bemmy for your comment. I wouldn\\\'t know if there are lots of ads in the media in the UK advertising ringtone downloads. That might give a good indicator as to how the business is fairing. It will be my pleasure to meet you someday.

Online Aspect : How business guys can identify good coders

Sun, 7 Nov 2010 14:20:52 +0000

I blogged about it here http://blog.timakinbo.com/2010/10/27/how-to-hire-.... I was recently invited to give a talk to students in my alma mater and I couldn't help not talking about how important it is to get past that initial inertia (or fear in most cases) and actually begin to produce content even if it's crappy.

Online Aspect : How business guys can identify good coders

Sat, 6 Nov 2010 05:07:02 +0000

Great post Josh. it's an expansion on the ideas I wrote on this topic. Is there a reason a programmer will not contribute to open source projects? I think the answer is yes. Being afraid of criticism might make a programmer not contribute openly because this leaves him open to criticism. In my short time of making open source contributions, I've learned a lot from other fellow contributors and seen a huge growth rate in my programming ability.

Tim Akinbo's Blog : Nigerian postcodes - a case for open data

Thu, 4 Nov 2010 22:01:11 +0000

Interesting comment Aniedi and thanks for the link to geopostcodes. I checked their data out but wasn\\\'t too impressed with their offering. Their geocoding is only accurate to the regional level which in my opinion isn\\\'t good enough for me to justify the investment but for the organization, that\\\'s great. I\\\'m thinking that we could use a service like Geonames (http://www.geonames.org/) to geocode a number of the locations in that database.

Tim Akinbo's Blog : Most programmers cant solve this

Mon, 25 Oct 2010 08:14:46 +0000

Thanks. I didn't realize it was written in javascript.

Tim Akinbo's Blog : Most programmers cant solve this

Mon, 25 Oct 2010 08:09:40 +0000

The problem with your code is that if a number is divisible by 15 it is also divisible by both 3 and 5, so you'll get outputs like: 1, 2, Fizz, 4, Buzz... 13, 14, Fizz Buzz FizzBuzz... which is actually incorrect. You need a way to stop the comparison after passing a test. That's the first issue. The second issue is explained in my follow up solution which will be published in a few days.

Tim Akinbo's Blog : Nigerian Internet Entrepreneurs Meetup

Thu, 14 Oct 2010 08:20:51 +0000

For those of you who missed the event, you don\\\'t want to miss the next meeting. Join the discussion group to get updates.

Tim Akinbo's Blog : Nigerian Internet Entrepreneurs Meetup

Sun, 10 Oct 2010 08:52:41 +0000

@mayowa I couldn\\\'t agree less. @loy Osita is working on it and he\\\'ll need all the support he can get from the rest of us. When the discussion list is setup, we\\\'ll continue the discussions on keeping this event running.

Tim Akinbo's Blog : Investigations on resumable file uploads

Sat, 9 Oct 2010 14:56:04 +0000

@digitalcraft until HTML5 and the File API, the only method I know that was used for \\\"resumable\\\" uploads was embedding a Java applet to provide the functionality. With the File API, you will be able to do uploads in chunks of bytes. This will come in handy in situations where there are policy restrictions on the maximum upload size. What would be most interesting would be using webworkers to handle the upload and allow the user to continue interacting with the application and possibly even use IndexedDB for resumable uploads even when the browser has been closed.

Tim Akinbo's Blog : HTML5 and why it matters

Sat, 2 Oct 2010 09:04:50 +0000

@Ifeanyi great comment. There are very little (and I can't recollect) reasons why Flash is good for the web or even on mobile. The first and most obvious is the fact that content produced in Flash is not indexable and wouldn't help promote a semantic web. Flash did have its use back in the days but browsers have gotten pretty advanced these days and are just as capable.