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Zuma Counts as much as he can count.

The list of people , objects and even situations that would be better suited for running South Africa at this point than Jacob Zuma. Starting with the obvious, anyone that can read any number written down on paper. Let’s get it out of the way, you, me, your friend from Knysna, that aunt you only see every second year on some family gathering, and just about everyone else in South Africa, this obviously always excludes that what even is he Julius Malema and ffs dude Nicholis Louw. A dead AA battery. Those blue ice things all our parents have in the back of the freezer. A pencil marking on a very unimportant paper. The waiting time between breaths. The advertisements on youtube if you still don’t use adblock. The letters T and L whenever they meet somewhere in a gently read sentence.. That joke about the guy that walks into a bar and says ouch, well not the guy in the joke specifically , but more the joke itself, I believe that in essence it would rule SA in a more lite...

Cordova, db tips and where to start

Cordova is used to build hybrid applications, it uses a set of build tools to create native language output(apache ant, xcode, java etc.).  Code once, deploy to many . There are so many articles out there on both sides of the argument, should I build native or hybrid. Going native  will have the drawback of having to almost completely rewrite for each OS, the obvious result will be longer dev time. Hybrid  will have loads more configuration and tweaking but can cut dev time by a lot. For an absolute beginner I would suggest heading over to  telerik  and checking out there online hybrid builder. It's really easy to use, has a ton of great working examples and comes with a 30 day evaluation with full access to all of their services. They also support and promote the new  nativescript language  which I think is something to consider, still young but looks amazing. Plus their VisualStudio App builder plugin is really something special, and ...