| The true value of having a code review culture |
| Friday, September 20, 2019 |
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 Code reviews are often seen as a waste of time. This is due to the perception that if you’re not creating code, you’re not being productive. Done right, a code review promotes greater quality software, stronger teamwork, and more inspiration for creativity...More... |
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| 3 ways to promote better engagement between UX Engineers and Software Engineers |
| Friday, September 13, 2019 |
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 Collaboration between user experience (UX) and development is essential for building great solutions. Using the abilities from both disciplines in tandem provides a definite edge that is impossible without collaboration, communication, and compromise.
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| UX as an important part of your agile delivery team |
| Friday, September 6, 2019 |
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 The noteworthy impact design has had on software development in recent times has been indisputable. The market now is absolutely connected, and the network effect means that products with excellent user experiences will go viral, while bad user experiences will have the reverse negative effect...More... |
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| The 2019 Entelect Challenge University Cup Winners Announced |
| Friday, August 30, 2019 |
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 Worms, this years’ Entelect Challenge (https://challenge.entelect.co.za/) finals are almost upon us. The grand finale will yet again take place at Comic Con Africa (@AfricaComicCon). Over 60 000 people are expected to attend, so if you plan on making your way through on the 21st of September, come find us on the centre stage in Hall 5 at the Gallagher Convention Centre at 11am!
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| Build and buy: Where custom software belongs in your universe |
| Friday, August 23, 2019 |
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As businesses evolve, they will need software as a foundation of their strategy. Whether it’s a product, supporting a service, or driving efficiency in business processes, there is no avoiding it.
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| Streamlining the medical student placement process at Stellenbosch University |
| Wednesday, August 21, 2019 |
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.png?maxwidth=300&maxheight=300) The faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at Stellenbosch University partnered with Entelect to revamp their placement process.
The project was to design and develop a software application that supports the faculty in the management of student placements at training facilities as part of their clinical training. The solution extends to full curriculum management to accurately track resource utilisation and enable cost recovery from state funding.
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| A look at feature stores to enable machine learning |
| Monday, July 29, 2019 |
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 Working with data is messy and getting it ready for any kind of model building is a painstaking and time-consuming process. Building feature stores is meant to optimize this process for all machine learning teams in an organization...More... |
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| 4 ways to future-proof your IoT solution, and avoid obsolescence. |
| Thursday, July 25, 2019 |
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 The Internet of Things (IoT) is evolving rapidly and it’s difficult to say what things may look like in a year or two, much less in the next decade. One of the biggest concerns for organisations is buying what soon becomes functionally or technologically obsolete, but continually deferring to invest in IoT could lead to analysis paralysis...More... |
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| A South African perspective on traditional IT versus digital transformation |
| Friday, June 28, 2019 |
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 South Africa has quite a few very large and very old organisations. They tend to be quite federated, and a cursory glance over their unique histories explains why. Some departments and business units were acquired or merged, some were started as silos and others just evolved along a different vector. Therein lies a problem of companies with long histories: divergence. Customer channels evolve faster than mainframes, payments evolve faster than compliance, and insurance faster than banking...More... |
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| Do you need a blockchain for that? |
| Thursday, June 20, 2019 |
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 We’ve heard all about the amazing ways blockchain is going to revolutionise lives and industries – by making supply chain more reliable, banking transactions faster, commodities trading cheaper, and politics more transparent and efficient. There were even questions about why South Africa isn’t using blockchain to safeguard our votes after the recent alleged double-voting controversy during our 2019 general elections. So, if blockchain seemingly has the ability to change everything for the better, why is everyone not using it?...More... |
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