Africa Code Week comes to town

The inaugural Africa Code Week will take place from 1 October to 10 Octber, during which the Cape Town Science Centre will host a variety of free coding workshops. The transfer of skills will include the free Scratch coding workshops for children aged between 8 and 12...

App development key to customer engagement

Just like every company today is a software business, every company today is also an app company. “We’re in the middle of an app revolution and the implications for business are huge, even if you don’t think of yourself as an app business,” says Quinton Pienaar, CEO...

Emergent design key for agile businesses

The third annual Agile Africa conference on 24 to 26 August 2015 hosted by the Joburg Centre for Software Engineering (JCSE) at Wits University will feature a session on emergent design and how developers design with a smaller code base in agile. JCSE director,...

Conference challenges Agile’s efficacy

Agile is not the easy way out according to Agile Africa 2015 keynote speaker, Dr Rebecca Parsons, ThoughtWorks’ CTO. In her address at the third annual Agile Africa conference, taking place on 24 to 26 August 2015, Dr Parsons will explore three perspectives on Agile...

CA announces mobile DevOps suite

CA Southern Africa has announced Mobile DevOps, a solution suite aimed at accelerating application development and deployment. The company has also announced Enterprise Internet of Things (IoT) – which will enable the adoption of internet-connected devices. On the...

Time is running out to get agile in Africa

The Jo’burg Centre for Software Engineering (JCSE) at Wits University is gearing up for its third annual Agile Africa conference on 24 to 26 August 2015. With headline speakers including renowned Agile expert, Kent Beck, ThoughtWorks CTO, Dr Rebecca Parsons, and...