Musings

28 May 2015 by KRS
KRS engaged with around 500 first year Computer Science students at UWC exploring possible career alternatives and presenting what is currently available to them, and then at the beginning of May, some Agile lessons from the trenches with the Honours students at UCT. [...]

28 May 2015 by KRS
Beyond the obvious frustrations of cold showers and cold food (in winter nogal), South Africa’s protracted energy crisis and its effect on the ICT industry has serious implications for the country’s overall economy. [...]

15 May 2015 by Steve Randles
The on-going debate; build custom software or buy a packaged solution? [...]

13 May 2015 by KRS
The latest cartoon by Jerm. [...]

27 Mar 2015 by KRS
Here’s a quick look at the top stories from Mobile World Congress that took place in Barcelona at the beginning of this month. [...]

25 Mar 2015 by KRS
In January we welcomed 12 Software Development interns into the KRS fold for seven weeks of high intensity training. [...]

25 Mar 2015 by KRS
In 2015, if you are not developing a mobile or digital business application of some description, then you are considered to be behind the times and out of touch with your customers. [...]

15 Mar 2015 by KRS
The latest cartoon by Jerm. [...]

5 Mar 2015 by KRS
Our first attempt at an Infographic of all the awesome things we do as Agile Developers! [...]

29 Jan 2015 by Barbara Mackay
Making work smarter and faster is KRS’s newly revamped, TaskExpress. The ultimate, sophisticated and easy to use, issue tracker and task scheduler, Task Express is eminently scalable – from the ‘coffice’ worker (coffee shop office) to major companies handling large project management tasks. [...]

29 Jan 2015 by KRS
Since we are at the beginning of the year, let’s take a look at some of the trends set to affect the IT world ahead. [...]

29 Jan 2015 by Jasper Cook
Shading alternate rows or columns is simple enough, but surprisingly few people know how easy it is. It’s a question I get a lot. [...]

25 Nov 2014 by KRS
Brendan has been with KRS for 7 years and thoroughly enjoys the diversity of projects and technologies that he works with. [...]

25 Nov 2014 by KRS
Developing business to business mobile applications for companies that manage clients rather than end customers is definitely a growing trend in South Africa. So why should businesses build an app for their clients? [...]

28 Oct 2014 by KRS
Two of our team members recently attended the 2014 Scrum Gathering in Cape Town, hosted by the Scrum User Group of South Africa (SUGSA). [...]

1 Oct 2014 by KRS
Chris has been with KRS for almost 4 years. He enjoys the camaraderie with other developers and has recently become a father. [...]

30 Sep 2014 by Lorraine Steyn
Integration projects within companies are often moved lower down the IT roadmap as they are seen to be complicated and frustrating. Why? Well bringing two or more different software programmes together and integrating the code to result in a successful business specified outcome, is always a challenge. [...]

28 Aug 2014 by KRS
While you are planning your company’s goals for 2015, what software development are you going to need to help achieve these goals? More often than not, internal development teams cannot meet all roadmap goals, not through lack of knowledge, but lack of resources. [...]

31 Jul 2014 by Jasper Cook
From time to time, we need a formula returning only the last value in a row range, when ranges grow rightwards, and daily, as in values for Monday thru Friday in a range. [...]

30 Jul 2014 by KRS
Ayesha has been with KRS for three years and as a woman in a male dominated industry, she believes that KRS empowers and entrusts her to perform her duties with complete autonomy and support. [...]