MIH SWAT
A blog by mihswat
Blog description:
The official blog of MIH's SWAT Team - technology, web, internet - South Africa and the globe
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MIH SWAT ranks 220 in Africa and 130 in South Africa. According to site visitors it ranks 613, and 593 according to page views:
According to blogroll links it ranks 353 and 388 according to the amount of links within Afrigator blog posts
Campus Party 2010
From 25th till the 31st january, the 3rd. edition of Campus Party Brazil took place in São Paulo. The event, that is said to be the biggest one in technologic innovation, internet and eletronic entertainment, has been held since 1997 and happens in four different countries annually: Brazil, Spain, Mexico
Users or Products?
Coming back from a week in India, I was left with a few lasting impressions, which could be summed up in one word: ubiquity. Of people. Of noise. The organised chaos that is Delhi traffic. And energy – something that seems to have reached a frenetic level quite shocking to
Introducing RESTful Semantic Web Services
Web services are key elements in the fields of distributed software engineering and code reuse. They also play a very important role on the Semantic Web by providing data to semantic software agents, as described by Tim Berners-Lee: “The real power of the Semantic Web will be realized when people
Three almost sure things for 2010
January brings with it the usual proliferation of lists predicting technology trends for 2010. I’ll add to the swarm by providing a short list of events which I believe will have a significant impact on the Web As We Know It in the coming year. The first item is the
Android Apps at MIH Internet
With TechCrunch’s Robin Wauters and Michael Arrington speculating about the future of ICQ and in so doing giving many users, who have never heard of Naspers before, some insight into our mobile and online investments. This post does not comment on their speculation but instead will focus on the
Microsoft Web Developer Summit 2009
This year I was honored by being invited to participate as a member of the PHP Community in Microsoft’s Web Developer Summit. I used the opportunity to represent the huge PHP community in Brazil and highlight the community’s work. Let me give you a glimpse of what the event tries
Two Approaches To Setting Up An Agile Team
The development team at DStv Labs, a division of DStv Online and MIH SWAT has recently been thrown together to look at some exciting projects in the New Media space. In keeping with the latest thinking around agile development frameworks, the DStv Labs team has adopted Scrum as the framework
How did they do that ?
Have you ever come across a website and saw some really interesting aspects of the user interface ? Maybe it was a site design that looks like a flash site but was not? Or maybe you came across a site that had a visually appealing menu. Coming from mostly a
ZendCon 2009 PHP Conference – Review
October 2009 saw my return to San Jose for one of the top conferences on the PHP calendar - ZendCon.
Vacancies at SWAT
Would you like to work at SWAT ? We have a few positions vacant at the moment – have a look: In Sao Paulo, Brazil – we need a junior front-end developer. You are highly skilled in front-end development, with specific skills in CSS, HTML and Javascript. You are a
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