We’re finally here, at the last lap of the web development series, and the topic up for discussion is “Databases, A Simple Guide to Learning the Basics”. Congratulations for making it this far, you’ve almost completed all the pieces to your awesome web application. (if you haven’t read any of the previous articles, click on the links to read on the front-end & middle-tier to catch this article).

Database, sounds like a fancy place

The name alone pretty much explains what it is doesn’t it? A database — meaning the HQ/base for data! Enough of my dry jokes, the database is essentially an organised collection of…

Picture this, your Mom blindfolds you and takes you out the house to gift you your dream car (just like in the movies), you take off blindfold your and there it is, the beauty you’ve always dreamed of. Excited! You jump right in and attempt to start the vehicle only to be told the car has no engine, shocker!

Well that car is as useful as a front-end without middle tier services and database, at least in a web application development context.

This article is a continuation of the web development series and will help to give you understanding…

I had a discussion with a friend not so long ago, and he had this brilliant idea for a food ordering app (He loves Beans), but unfortunately he wasn’t going about it in the most efficient way possible, and that’s the challenge most newbies face when they have that inventive idea for the next big web app to change the world. In this article, I’m going to guide you through the most straightforward way to transform that idea to a fully realised web application.

Keep Calm and Learn Web Development

There’s always some confusion around the web development landscape, especially because of how fast things change…

Start-up incubators have long been synonymous with the famous Silicon Valley of California, but there’s a new wave of tech and innovation start-ups springing up across Africa and this is partly due to the influx of business start-ups on the continent, one of such is MEST Africa. In this Article, we’ll take a look at some (4) of the most brilliant start-ups that have emerged out of MEST Africa’s Incubator Program.

MEST Africa is a Technology Startup Incubator founded in Accra, Ghana in 2008, and they help tech startups across Africa by providing them with entrepreneurial training, an internal seed…