Month: June 2019
Advancing faster than we thought
Over the past century-and-a-half, we saw more technological advancements than all other periods of human history combined. There really are no surprises there: from the height of the First Industrial ...
Smartphones on way out, Augmented Reality on the way in
The days of the cellphones are numbered. Do you remember the last time you watched a movie on a VCR, listened to your favourite tracks on a Walkman, or sent your camera film to a processing centre? Pr...
A glimpse into the future of computing
Thousands of people flocked to Las Vegas this month, not for the usual attractions, but to attend the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which is the world’s biggest annual electronics expo, where all t...
Hi-tech overhaul of SA education system will fall apart without strategic plan
Recently, the government announced that it was planning a major hi-tech overhaul for the South African education system. As an educational technologist who sees the tremendous potential of technology ...
Ted Dabney, the man whose life was a game
Last year, the world of computing lost one of its great pioneers, Ted Dabney. He was the founder of Atari and the creator of Pong, one of the most iconic video games made. Dabney is known in the indus...
Calling a remote PHP Script from JavaScript using JQuery
In this tutorial I will show you how to call a remote PHP script (a script that lives on a separate server) from your JavaScript application using JQuery.
Creating a simple Database Application in NetBeans
In this tutorial we create a simple database Java application in Netbeans. The database will contain two tables: one for authors and one for books.
Career tips for the 21st century
Artificial intelligence has defeated humans yet again. In the past, machines outdid their human creators in manual activities that did not require much thinking, like assembling vehicles and harvestin...
Why every child should learn to code
What do Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and Nick D’Aloisio have in common, other than they are all phenomenally wealthy tech entrepreneurs? The answer: they started very young. Gates coded his first compu...