The latest articles on DEV Community by Stephen Senkomago Musoke (@ssmusoke). https://dev.to/ssmusoke https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F1397%2F14ffabe2-9157-49c0-a6f1-7131be7588f6.png https://dev.to/ssmusoke en Stephen Senkomago Musoke Tue, 23 Jun 2020 14:25:01 +0000 https://dev.to/ssmusoke/voices-of-the-elephant-podcast-episode-my-technology-journey-php-opensource-java-19b6 https://dev.to/ssmusoke/voices-of-the-elephant-podcast-episode-my-technology-journey-php-opensource-java-19b6 <p>I am excited to have been hosted on the Voices of the Elephant podcast by <a href="https://blog.calevans.com/">Cal Evans</a> </p> <p><a href="https://voicesoftheelephpant.com/2020/06/23/interview-with-stephen-s-musoke/">https://voicesoftheelephpant.com/2020/06/23/interview-with-stephen-s-musoke/</a></p> <p>Talking about my technology journey, opensource, Java, PHP (of course) and what I am doing with it in Uganda and Africa </p> php opensource java Stephen Senkomago Musoke Tue, 10 Sep 2019 18:20:07 +0000 https://dev.to/ssmusoke/the-search-for-markdown-tool-chains-for-multiple-end-user-documentation-outputs-ijf https://dev.to/ssmusoke/the-search-for-markdown-tool-chains-for-multiple-end-user-documentation-outputs-ijf <p>Any recommendations for tools to generate &amp; maintain the following documentation styles from a single code repository:</p> <ol> <li>Android application help </li> <li>Internal employee web based documentation </li> <li>External web based public facing end-user documentation </li> </ol> markdown documentation android rst Stephen Senkomago Musoke Mon, 17 Jun 2019 11:39:38 +0000 https://dev.to/ssmusoke/kotlin-vs-react-native-for-android-only-app-35b3 https://dev.to/ssmusoke/kotlin-vs-react-native-for-android-only-app-35b3 <p>I am looking for any advice on what the benefits of Kotlin or React would be for an Android only app, which will be running on some older hardware - 4.4.2, and will need to run offline syncing data to a backend server </p> <ol> <li><p>What are the developer benefits </p></li> <li><p>What are the end-user benefits </p></li> <li><p>Any pit-falls to watch out for, when selecting one or another? </p></li> <li><p>Overall which will be better for the end users</p></li> </ol> <p><em>Update 1:</em> Came across this article <a href="https://medium.com/mop-developers/mobile-app-development-react-native-vs-native-ios-android-49c5c168045b">https://medium.com/mop-developers/mobile-app-development-react-native-vs-native-ios-android-49c5c168045b</a> which points more to Kotlin (not decided yet)</p> kotlin reactnative android offline Stephen Senkomago Musoke Sat, 08 Jun 2019 07:29:00 +0000 https://dev.to/ssmusoke/best-practices-for-receiving-files-via-rest-api-4n4 https://dev.to/ssmusoke/best-practices-for-receiving-files-via-rest-api-4n4 <p>I am looking for best practices for receiving zip or text files via DRF based REST based API:</p> <ul> <li><p>small files &lt; 1MB to be stored on the file system (with authentication of course) </p></li> <li><p>traffic will start at 25 to 100 clients a day growing later</p></li> <li><p>What responses do I send back?</p></li> <li><p>Any Performance issues that I will have to think about?</p></li> <li><p>How do I verify the multipart files are actually received without corruption? </p></li> </ul> rest drf django filetransfer