Sometimes bean counting is necessary especially around the financial year end . Tax men get real bolshy. I had to refresh accounting software for a few folk that use basic accounting but like to roll own. If you still use excel or word docs for invoices, quotes etc, don’t. There are hundreds of choices. I […]

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Tips to architecting knowledge management in mIcro enterprises, like dental practices. While modernising the dental practice of City Dental Centre City Dental Centre (Cape Town) and others, I had to address challenges in the area of Knowledge Management. This graphic published in Knowledge Management in Small and Micro Enterprises: Applying a Maturity Model by Mirian […]

We have migrated some ELT jobs to Apache Airflow scripts.These scripts move Oracle DB data to Google Bigquery.Steps requiredBuild apache airflow in docker (used puckel/docker-airflow image)As root user update docker imageAs airflow user install Java 1.8 + (required for running Talend ETL tools)Convert the export bash script to a DAGEnjoy the scheduling, retries and logging […]

Stop all guest instancesstop vbox web service:systemctl stop vboxweb-serviceps -aux | grep virtualboxshowed 2 other services, I terminated them with pkill <some id number>uninstall old virtualboxyum remove VirtualBox-5.2downloaded newer rpms VirtualBox-6.1-6.1.16_140961_el7-1.x86_64.rpm and Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-6.1.16.vbox-extpackinstalled both with:rpm -Uvh VirtualBox-6.1-6.1.16_140961_el7-1.x86_64.rpmVBoxManage extpack install Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-6.1.16.vbox-extpackdownloaded phpvirtualbox-develop.zipmy version was phpVirtualBox 6.1-0 -/- VirtualBox 6.1.x compatiblecopied to /var/www/html/phpvirtualboxrestart apache2 , done. Took […]

Online classes record log that records all online classes time and duration and which learners attended. Remote work/class activity log records the class content and follows up on absent and defaulting learners Learner centralised contact details database to keep a single current record of changing contact details of learners. Hifth Library management system, keeps an […]