The Diary of a Private Developer

I find myself here a little more than several times ... When stuff just doesn't work. The saviour part is when all is working in the test environment. It all then fails when the client steps in and asks for the final packaged product...Whatever the hell happens during packaging in what has the potential to keep you awake through the night. May be the deployment environment has different settings, may be version issues, may be rights and /or permissions....just anything. May be you forgot to copy some files..anything here is of importance taking note of. I used to be a victim till I decided to be replicating close to if not what the client has. In development, I try as much as possible to use the technology supporting the final product. If its unix based, develop in unix based systems, if windows, same. Just be close to the final environment, if you can't be there.

Right Now...Ahem. Right now I'm in a bad mood. I was in a good mood. Teachers are not in a bad mood. Reason being, they are not working. This is an holiday for them. I'm sad because teachers are not in class and fee is paid. Another reason is, my bro deserves a teacher in class. I can't request a teacher to be in class. Fee is paid. However, Lemmi do this because am in need and forced. Please go bak to school. Gimme a reason not to dislike striking teachers. Posted by Patrick Mutwiri on  Friday, September 18, 2015 For how long will this go on anyway? This can't be forever, but it has long term effects. Some can't be changed ever..In school I learned about chemical and physical changes, when teachers were in class. They taught me, I passed and now, I can speak English and tweng of-course. Sorry Teachers,  you taught me governance and how to ask for rights, activism and others, so go back to school and teach coz I ain't givin' up on this. No e...

Have I ever said that Meru County is my home? Oh it is. The land of the proverbial a thousand hills. The reason am using my homeland in this piece is because of this: "nyama ukaria ukamionia rumuri"  That is a Kimeru saying that warns against roasting meat you'll eat with flame(s). I'm not the best of chefs. Actually, am terrible in cooking and especially stuff that other people will eat. Ask +Faith Gaspear   and she'll tell you.  My other brother will not mince his words regarding my skills, so I prefer her still. heeh. So, What does the above mean?? PATIENCE. Patience my guy. Learning patience during html lessons In scrabble, its just 12 points if at-all you don get the double/tripple letter stuff. I'm that guy who has to learn this the hard way. I once enrolled for an html class in codeacademy , because someone asked, and I agreed because I knew its easy and I was(and am) already a developer . The bad part was, codeacademy has its own curriculum...

Such an awesome tune. Hey y'all Listen up. I gat this.. Sweet victory. Nobody is gon take it from mey. Wish you victory..

If you read this back in March this year, it ain't news.  Oh, by the way, google code is more of a developers space, where you can write and store /host your project. Google code offers services similar to what Git-hub offers. Now get it? Hope so. Really. Apologies if I can't explain this better. All I mean is, It's simply a great service from google, later under Alphabet(read more) . From this blog , it started back in 2006. Now this good google service will be closed as from January 25th next year(2016) As we speak, new projects can not be created. From their blog, below is what's up : March 12, 2015   - New project creation disabled. August 24, 2015  - The site goes read-only. You can still checkout/view project source, issues, and wikis. January 25, 2016 - The project hosting service is closed. You will be able to download a tarball of project source, issues, and wikis. These tarballs will be available throughout the rest of 2016. If you have your projec...

Ahem..Don know how I read stuff online but this might be interesting, cause probably I had this right. I stumbled on google's blog today, I'll be patriotic enough to share a .co.ke one :) , and I read quite nice stuff... G is for Google   That was, and is, the title. I read further...  "... Our company is operating well today, but we think we can make it cleaner and more accountable. So we are creating a new company, called  Alphabet  ( http://abc.xyz) . I am really excited to be running Alphabet as CEO with help from my capable partner, Sergey, as President... " The blog read in part...the writer being the first person in this case.. Larry Page, CEO Google. I then clicked  Alphabet have a look at the site (https://abc.xyz) I loved it, I love it.  Simple, clean, nice font, not clattered...definitely clean stuff, a caliber fitting what I develop.  Mhh..Back to the point. The blog further said that "Alphabet is mostly a collection ...

Hi there. I am a developer in need of a nice machine. I have a very old machine. Call this upgrade. Upgrades are optional but nice. So, si lazima  . I want a mac. One with the specs below. Display      :  15-inch (diagonal) Screen size. Processor   :  2.5GHz dual-core                       Intel Core i5 processor (Turbo Boost up to 3.1GHz) with 3MB L3 cache                       Configurable to 2.9GHz dual-core Intel Core i7 (Turbo Boost up to 3.6GHz) with 4MB                       shared L3 cache. Memory     : 4GB of 1600MHz DDR3 memory Configurable to 8GB. Storage       : 500GB 5400-rpm hard drive (minimum size) Graphics and Video Support  :  Intel HD Graphics 4000 Wi‑Fi          : 802.11n Wi‑Fi wireless net...

Just as it goes, this font is awesome. It has a lot of icons. I love it. When you embark the journey of aesthetics, this should be your first step. The Cheat Sheet. I got it from their site and am sharing it now with the world. Share it too. Web developers and Designers should save this asap, if you work offline often. 

Hi there. I'm stuck here. I'm writing a list of things to do and they are so many...I haven't written any physically yet. Call it meditation. Ok..Hi there, I'm now serious. I need to get stuff moving. I need to stop dreaming and actualize it. I remember there's a time I wrote a post about waking up early and jogging.. yeah..look it up in this blog. Guess what..I still don't jog, But I do have time though. I do other stuff like push ups.. hazipiti kumi btw :) Call this a success story . I wake up early, prepare myself, go to work, leave early, finish up my novels, watch news while blogging..and you know what, all this was not possible some months ago. Reason being, what you need to stop doing!!  Ask yoself this, what kind of person am I? I'm I the lazy guy I see in the mirror? Am I a game changer in any way? What am I risking? May be through that, you will find out what you need to start doing ...and you'll be wealthy n healthy! Wake Up Early When...

Life is a walk...a race...a journey.  Many times we seek approval from people who don't even have an idea of how the journey has been for us. But my bible reminds me that approval should be sought from God, our Father, only. He should be the stamp over your plans that gives a go-ahead on what to do and what not. Where to go and where not to go. If all you care about is 'what will people think, what will my boyfriend/girlfriend think, what if my friends start avoiding me...'  even after God has said 'GO...DO..YES' then you have missed the point. We always sing that Jehovah has the final say but do we really mean what we confess with our mouths. Does Jehovah really have the final say over your life?. Personally, God is the only person who has a say over my life. What i do might not be perfect for you but as long as it came with God's approval stamp then its just as perfect. God is the determinant of all things. What men say are just but opinions. Its time to ...