I'm a software engineer (at Customer.io) during the day and indie hacker by night. I blog about my ideas, and journeys into building products.

How to theme Views output Drupal 6/7

I was recently asked by a friend how the output from Views can be themed easily. I’m going to show you an easy way for pure Drupal n00bs to control the look and feel of their website. This tutorial does not require much coding skill, just some CSS knowledge and the ability to use Views is enough.

Guide to securing Joomla v1.5 sites

My Linux installation crashed this morning which got me thinking so much about doing regular backups and making sure everything is secure. It’s been a weird week really, one of my mates got his website hacked too so I’ve had to think a lot on web security as well. I’m a Drupaler and he was running Joomla!, the CMS I dabbled in when I got started into web development. I hope to show you some of the cool things one can do to secure a Joomla! Site, with hacktivists on the prowl now more than ever (for better or worse) it helps to take measures against seeing the photo my friend woke up to find .

Africa is killing it in thinking

Disclaimer: this is in response to a post written by Sam Chipangura on his blog here:
http://takunda.tumblr.com/post/18998396482/is-africa-killing-it-in-the-c…

How to get the most from working at home

it’s about having a culture and making sure that it’s understood.

@tafmakura

when discussing about the challenges of telecommuting, being disciplined and making sure one creates an environment they can best work in.

I totally agree.

Success and consistency

Consistency is one of the key things young and budding entrepreneurs are never told enough times is fundamental to long-term, enduring success. In a lot of success talk and teachings people tend to concentrate on qualities that CREATE success, such as a strong desire for something, networking, working hard or smarter, etcetera. Based on experience so far, I can confidently say there’s something very close to what’s sometimes called “Beginner’s luck”. The easy-going, free flow of positive events at the start. It’s quite endearing and a lot of aspirants, quite literally, lose it at this early stage. Why that free, easy flow is often classified as success possibly has a lot to do with small, achieavable goals people set at start.