Wayne Yan believes leaders who have composure and are critical thinkers are the best bet. Wayne Lester Yan, CTO at Dariel Software, is a third generation Chinese immigrant: both his grandfathers moved to South Africa. “My parents were born here, I was born here and, as such, I speak better Afrikaans than I do Mandarin,” he …
Most people now probably won’t remember but there was a time when airline tickets were real things. They were solid tangible pieces of paper that were printed on a shiny green paper watermarked with the IATA logo. When you had a plane ticket it actually felt like you had something valuable. I clutched such a …
PS names have been changed. It wasn’t a great landing. It was so hard that water started leaking out of the bathroom in the rear of the ancient Fokker 100 that LAM (Lineas Areas De Mozambique) operated on it’s route between Jo’burg and Maputo. I was a twenty year old still sporting long hair (in …
The most awesome thing about working in a tech space? It’s being able to understand TV shows that have awesome tech in them. I kid you not, it makes you feel like a guru (maybe even scares you a bit) when you can understand how someone “hacked” into a mainframe (or like Joe in the …
It’s a common belief that great accomplishments require great ambition. What we frequently forget however is that often ambition is a fragile element sometimes needing motivation, guidance, advice, mature support and a moral compass (perhaps just to stop the hackers amongst us from becoming the next Gary McKinnon!). In my experience, these 5 factors all …
Demand for software developers is growing fast. This translates to good pay and a lot of options to choose from as well as the opportunity to build something that will change the world. Although it seems as though there are plenty of jobs out there, that does not mean that the competition is not stiff. …
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So you’ve graduated or just finished that online course and ready to start your career in the mysticalworld of using code to craft spells that aim to solve the world’s problems. You’re probably wonderingwhere to begin or how you’re going to level up and reach the state of mastery that will separate youfrom all the …
The logging industry is being driven by a wave of automation primarily with the usage of robots and automated vehicles for tree felling, pruning and transportation. One of the motivating factors behind this automation is the arduous and dangerous occupation of a tree feller. However automation is also being economically driven due to the gain …
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How good are your unit tests? Are they actually effective at catching mistakes? Test quality has been a long sought after metric. Many tools offer code coverage as a solution, although as most developers would know, like a mathematical divergence test, bad coverage is bad, but good coverage could really just go either way. This …
I don’t know about you, but I returned to work this year with all the energy and excitement of a sloth. 2018 was tough and I had no preconceived ideas that 2019 was going to be better… until I remembered that we were welcoming six exceptional youngsters into the Dariel fold – our 2019 Graduate …