Celestine Omin
On Software, life and everything in-between
RouteSMS over HTTP
If you have ever worked with RouteSMS' HTTP API, I am sure you probably have ran into this same issue. About 5 months ago, my company, Konga made the move to consolidate its messaging needs. This move was necessary as different projects had common needs and SMS notification was part...
Tech in 2014 and Beyond
So, 2014 has come and gone and the year will forever hold a special place in our hearts. In 2014, we saw an explosion in wearable technologies: watches, fitness tracker and motion sensor. Companies like FitBit and Jawbone made giant leaps in these areas with the introduction of their fitness...
Divideby2 Algorithm - Decimal to Binary converter
Binary (1’s and 0’s), popularly called base-2 (2n) is the core of how computers work. Without it, computers would probably not exist. According to Wikipedia? A binary number is a number expressed in the binary numeral system, or base-2 numeral system, which represents numeric values using two different symbols: typically...
Jaccard Similarity - Clustering for the rest of us!
Have you ever wondered how Facebook knows which post is similar to which? If you have 2 or more friends posting the same link to an article, Facebook will intelligently group these two articles into one single feed. Well, Facebook uses some sort of clustering algorithm and Jaccard is one...
Nerdiest Birthday Ever
So yesterday, May 9th, was my birthday and my good people at work made it really special. Below are some of the nerdiest messages that I got. I just love my folks. They know how to make me smile. Enjoy. Tega while( time() <= mktime(23,59,59,05,09,2014) { happyBirthdayCelestine(); } Oladayo Raji...