Celestine Omin
On Software, life and everything in-between
Artisans, repairmen and handymen. Another market ripe for a disruption
Anyone that has had any dealings with an artisan or a handyman will tell you how unpleasant the experience is. From broken promises to buying substandard parts — while charging you for the original — to fixing problems based on guesses, to causing further damage, the list goes on. A...
Hermes: Notification as a Service. Sending millions of notifications monthly
At Konga, notification is at the heart of every client facing product and most internal products that we build. This affords an easy way to keep in touch with our customers, keep them in the know of what is happening to their orders and for the merchants, let them know...
Don't ignore my grand mum - on designing apps for the digital immigrants
In 2007, at the famous, World Wide Developer conference event, Steve Jobs, the late CEO and co-founder of Apple, introduced the iPhone to the world. By the next year, Google released the Android OS to the world and made it free to OEMs worldwide. Both device and OS have gone...
Connecting to MySQL on a Docker container.
If you’re like me, you’re probably just getting to the Docker party. Today I ran into what some will consider a noob problem — I wanted to connect to my MySQL container but didn’t know how to go about it. This mini tutorial isn’t supposed to take you through the...
Konga: The Emergence of an African Technology Powerhouse
This is my first post for the year and I’d thought I’ll write on something that I care deeply about, Konga. This is a first in a series of post that will highlight how we have grown as a technology company. From the little days of relying on external tools...