http://www.oneafrikan.com Share what you know, Learn what you don't. This is the evolution of one Afrikan. Thu, 21 Jan 2010 09:28:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I haven't blogged here for a while. That's been for two reasons: 1) I've just been pre-occupied with getting the next chapter started; and 2) I was deciding what I was going to be writing about. For a long time this blog focussed on technical stuff with a few other distractions here ... http://www.oneafrikan.com/archives/2010/01/21/where-to-from-here/ The last two years have been "interesting", to say the least. Full of lessons, incredible journeys, and all kinds of growth. I've been quiet here for a while now, as I've been super busy laying foundations for next steps, so just wanna say Happy Christmas for 2009, and ... http://www.oneafrikan.com/archives/2009/12/03/onwards-and-upwards/ Yesterday was a good day. As an aspiring social entrepreneur and increasingly part time geek, I've had my theories on why technical / programmer / geek / web type people stick to certain kinds of focus areas when trying to make a living for themselves, and yesterday an intuition ... http://www.oneafrikan.com/archives/2009/09/12/making-progress-skimming-the-molasses/ w00t! Pretty excited to see that my panel submission has been highlighted by the folks at ReadWriteStart /ReadWriteWeb... ;-) If you're going to SxSW and you're into bootstrapping / building a startup, then this is a great place to start finding great talks / panels... _ For Your Voting ... http://www.oneafrikan.com/archives/2009/09/09/ten-startup-related-panels-from-the-sxsw-panel-picker-on-readwritestart/ This is an in-depth post, which is part of a series on Building a Startup You Love. The original (short) version is at: Building a Startup You Love is Hard. The first post was written for ISLabs, and is at: Starting up is a state of mind. Which is also linked ... http://www.oneafrikan.com/archives/2009/09/02/building-a-startup-you-love-set-real-goals-you-can-achieve/ Location: London, UK Description: Do you believe in user-focused, web standard design and development, driven by simplicity? Kublax is a financial services SaaS start-up based in London, looking for a motivated UI person to help deliver a compelling product for a venture-backed project. This is an opportunity to play a significant role in a ... http://www.oneafrikan.com/archives/2009/08/27/front-end-developer-job-in-london-at-kublax/ If you've got a few mins, would appreciate your vote for my panel submission for SxSW next year ;-) Starting and Selling Startups - Lessons From the Coalface This session looks at finding that ‘right idea’ and following it through the phases of building a company, building the product and selling it ... http://www.oneafrikan.com/archives/2009/08/26/shameless-plug-please-vote-for-my-panels-at-sxsw-interactive-2010/ Check it out, some good ones: _The TechCrunch Europe Guide to Bootstrapping - Your Advice This week TechCrunch Europe interrogated your hive mind on the subject of bootstrapping your startup. Most startups bootstrap for at least part of their lifetime and how it’s done can determine whether you make it as far ... http://www.oneafrikan.com/archives/2009/07/31/checkout-techcrunch-europe-guide-to-bootstrapping/ If you've got the Dell 2130cn color laser printer, I've found the following driver works on Ubuntu: Generic PCL 6/PCL XL Printer Foomatic/pxlmono Source: http://forums.linux-foundation.org/read.php?33,7527 Hope that helps someone ;-) http://www.oneafrikan.com/archives/2009/07/29/dell-2130cn-printer-driver-for-ubuntu/ Go get it... Or please forward if you think relevant: Position Advertised: SEO Analyst Segment: Corporate Banking Business Unit: FNB Online - PCM Grade: Grade Cs Role: SEO Analyst Remuneration: Salary depended on experience and qualifications Overview of Role The SEO Analyst is a position designed to support the efforts of the search engine optimisation team. This ... http://www.oneafrikan.com/archives/2009/06/30/seo-job-in-johannesburg-south-africa-seo-analyst-at-fnb/ I've been waiting for an excuse to get started on the Building a Startup You Love series, and writing a guest post on the IS Labs blog was a great opportunity to do so: _ Starting up is a state of mind. Check it out and let me know what ... http://www.oneafrikan.com/archives/2009/06/30/building-a-startup-you-love-series-starting-up-is-a-state-of-mind/ I had no idea what to expect from the GeekRetreat (content will be updated there ov er the next few days so bookmark it) this year, but I did know that there were some smart people going, and I liked the themes being discussed. So I went in with ... http://www.oneafrikan.com/archives/2009/06/22/thoughts-on-geekretreat-za/ Since my days of doing grass diversity research in the communal grazing lands adjacent to the Kruger National Park, I've always felt that the world needs top down impetus and proactiveness, but bottom up implementation. So in short, help from the wealthier people at the top, with the doing ... http://www.oneafrikan.com/archives/2009/06/04/what-you-do-speaks-so-loudly-that-i-cannot-hear-what-you-say/ Desmond Tutu spoke at my school once, and he was awesome. Always enjoyed his sense of humour and pragmatism towards the issues we face. Came across this, this morning, and wanted to share: "A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel ... http://www.oneafrikan.com/archives/2009/06/02/a-quote-from-desmond-tutu/