Celestine Omin
On Software, life and everything in-between
Konga, the journey so far
Today, 3 years ago, konga.com went live. This day has been permanently etched in my memory. I wouldn't forget it in a hurry. I still remember the excitement, the frenzy while trying to deliver our first and probably only order for that day - July 10th, 2012. I still remember...
Embrace mobile. Don't ignore it.
“Mobile is the future, scratch that. Mobile isn’t the future, it is the primary screen.” The above quote sounds all too familiar, it is now cliché. In Africa, the millennial have leapfrogged the desktop paradigm straight to mobile. In a world where social media have been so woven into our...
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...