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How not to learn how to code

19 Comments / Development / By Van Lee Chigwada

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 and it is the catalyst of their undoing. A good example is learning bricklaying. Each …

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broken job system

the broken technical interview process

Leave a Comment / Business / By Van Lee Chigwada

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 people a month. Clearly this means the work I do, though not cutting edge or …

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Taking off

How to go from zero to 10,000 app downloads

2 Comments / Development / By Van Lee Chigwada

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 apps have been downloaded a total of over 640,000 times and 18 have surpassed the …

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Broken Product

When user feedback ruins a product

Leave a Comment / Development / By Van Lee Chigwada

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 feedback and feature requests. Sometimes, this feedback can not only ruin your app, but also …

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Making money online part 3

Paying the Bills with Adsense – African Edition pt 3

Leave a Comment / Business / By Van Lee Chigwada

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 minute video. In the video, I talk about technical considerations when setting up your blog: …

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Making money

Paying the bills with Adsense – African Edition pt 2

1 Comment / Business / By Van Lee Chigwada

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 start the journey to making money with Adsense. Adsense works on several types of content, …

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Graphs and Stats

Zimbabwe, the country without Data

Leave a Comment / Data Analytics / By Van Lee Chigwada

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 conclusion. I spent days trying to use Google search, our primary source of information and …

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Mobile Money Paymnets

Will the real mobile payment platform, please stand up

Leave a Comment / Business, Development / By Van Lee Chigwada

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 my complex mobile app analysis algorithm (I manually checked each app) I came up with …

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Shipwreck

The ones that failed

Leave a Comment / Business, Development / By Van Lee Chigwada

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 degrading with each passing quarter. Age-X has a few failed projects that we are trying …

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Money

Paying the bills with Adsense – African Edition

4 Comments / Business / By Van Lee Chigwada

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 quick scheme. If you are looking for fast money, go and try flipping goats or …

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