Category: My Work

  • Why Bringing in a Consultant can be Bad for a Company’s Staff and Innovation

    Why Bringing in a Consultant can be Bad for a Company’s Staff and Innovation

    When a company is facing a problem or looking to improve its operations, it may be tempted to bring in a consultant to provide expert advice and guidance. However, bringing in a consultant can sometimes do more harm than good for a company’s staff and innovation.

  • How to Avoid Manufacturing Downtime

    How to Avoid Manufacturing Downtime

    Hearing your machinery come to a grinding halt or your computer screen suddenly turn black is the stuff of nightmares for every business owner. Business downtime can be expensive, but unplanned downtime is often even more costly and stressful to deal with.

  • How Does Video Content Help You Improve the Conversion Rates of Your Brand?

    How Does Video Content Help You Improve the Conversion Rates of Your Brand?

    Video is a great way to engage customers and website visitors. Videos help people understand a product or service better, hear real customer feedback, or see a specialist in their field break down a particularly difficult topic. Video attracts more visitors to your website, keeps them there for a longer time and increases the likelihood…

  • How to – Deploy a flask app with Firestore to Cloud Run

    How to – Deploy a flask app with Firestore to Cloud Run

    Flask is a popular microweb framework for Python and Cloud Run is a fully managed platform for deploying containerized applications. By combining these two technologies, developers can easily create and deploy web applications that can scale to handle a large number of users. In this article, we will explain how to deploy a Flask app…

  • Why not use Python for web application

    Why not use Python for web application

    First I have to say that I do use Python for my web application – my site socialclimate.tech is built on the Python Flask Framework and it works great for me, my use case was just a basic website and I had to overcome many hurdles, like what DB to use, how to deploy etc.

  • The Human Cost of the Digital Revolution

    The Human Cost of the Digital Revolution

    The digital revolution has brought about countless benefits to society, from increased access to information and communication to the development of new technologies that make our lives easier and more efficient. However, as with any revolution, there are also costs to be paid. One of the most significant costs of the digital revolution is the…

  • 5 Ways Your Company Can Better Retain Its Employees

    5 Ways Your Company Can Better Retain Its Employees

    High turnover of employees can be costly to businesses, so as a company owner, it’s crucial to maintain the workers you have. Recruiting and training new employees is time-consuming and expensive, and when employees leave, it can also disrupt workflow and productivity.

  • How to setup Appsmith on Google Cloud Run

    How to setup Appsmith on Google Cloud Run

    If you are looking for a low-code internal tool, Appsmith is a great open-source tool that creates beautifully designed UI apps on your internal data. Appsmith is open-source, so you can download it and deploy it to your environment.

  • Recover all files from an existing docker container

    Recover all files from an existing docker container

    I had a little mishap the other day, I had built an app and created a docker container which I later deployed to Google Cloud Run, before I had pushed a copy of the code to GitHub, my drive got a problem and I lost the code I had on my laptop. After I got…

  • How to code dynamic menus using CodeIgniter?

    How to code dynamic menus using CodeIgniter?

    I recently worked on a project in which we initially hardcoded the menus in the index.php, as the menu options started to increase I decided it was time to make the menus dynamic. What do I mean by dynamic, in my view dynamic menus allow any admin to build up a menu tree.