A few days ago a close friend of mine from a finance background, but with a sound enough interest in tech asked me “But whats the best OS?”. This conversation spawned a fun little analogy that I’m going to share with you, to be taken with a grain of salt.
… If Operating Systems were cakes.
September’s MSCC montly meetup topic was Google AdSense; Google’s advertising placement service, and how to use it to generate income with your website. This event was also the first official meeting of the Google Developers Group (GDG) Mauritius, be sure to check them out on Meetup!
During Consuming Cognitive Services in Xamarin session at Developing Intelligent Apps meetup, I demonstrated how use the Face API to verify if two faces belongs to the same person. Here’s a quick recap of how the API works:
Hello! If you’ve been to the Consuming Cognitive Services in Xamarin at the Developing Intelligent Apps meetup, here are resources, references and little things you might be interested in. … Consuming Cognitive Services in Xamarin
Smartapps Internship 2017, is a six week training and work intensive journey organised by Microsoft Student Partners , revolving around the theme of Digital Transformation of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), at the end of which participants were to come up with a digital solution, along with a business model and a digital marketing strategy. … Smartapps Internship 2017
Files starting with a dot (dotfiles) are ignored by default by the command ls, which has more or less the same effect of “hidden” files. The story goes that dotfiles are the outcome of a bug in the earliest days of UNIX. In an effort to avoid listing the . and .. entries of a directory (for the record, . is a link to the current directory and .. is a link to the directory above it), the ls command skipped files that began with the ‘.’ character. As a result, any file with a name beginning with ‘.’ was not reported by ls, and became hidden. Unlike in DOS/Windows, “hidden” is not an attribute in Unix . … Heard about dotfiles?
When debugging or using logcat on Android, most of us have our devices hooked to our computers. It’s all fine that way, and it keeps your device charging up. But if you want to go wireless and save yourself from some wire-related hassle, it’s possible to use adb over WiFi, as long as your device and computer are on the same network. This article assumes that you have Android Developer Options enabled on your device and adb already set-up on your computer. … Android Debug Bridge Over WiFi
I’ve been a fan of Juice services offered by the Mauritius Commercial Bank (MCB), it allows you to transfer money from a smartphone or make purchases and ATM withdrawals, without a credit card or cash, and makes managing a PayPal account a child’s play.
Besides the somewhat outdated UI, I’ve been satisfied with the services until recently I was hit with an error : “Invalid login credential”, which prevented me from using the app, although I was dead sure every information entered was correct. … MCB Juice – Fixing “Invalid Login Credentials” error.
