Please everyone: Lets Level the Playing Fields. President Ramaphosa mentions this in his latest SONA speech: its time:
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/community_petitions/South_African_Government_Level_the_Playing_fields_in_the_Electricity_Industry/
Please sign the petition. Don't just like this post.
I created the petition in 2014. In five years, it has got 483 signatures. It needs 100,000 signatures, so that we can make a difference. If everyone who complains about Eskom signed this petition, we wouldn't have any electricity problems anymore!!
Wednesday, February 13, 2019
Friday, January 25, 2019
Client-Server Software for Big Screens in a Cloud(y) World
David Lipschitz.
Delphi and Oracle back-office bespoke software development. Bespoke means especially for you.
Also, SQL-Server, mySQL, PostgreSQL, Interbase, Informix and any Relational Database Management System.
Self employed for more than 26 years. Had ups and downs. More ups than downs. Permanently employed in London, UK, for six years from Feb 1989 until Nov 1994, so I have the best of both worlds.
Worked from home for 14 years. And on site when needed. Worked from all over the world, using VPN, so that I can be on your network, as if I am at your office, securely, and uncompromisingly.
Some amazing ICT things I've done recently: optimised queries from 4 hours to 4 minutes and from 10 seconds to 31 ms just by optimising the SQL. Optimised a report from 10 minutes to 11 seconds, by changing the order of fields in an index. Done complex Data Mining.
Being self-employed and working for myself for so long has given me opportunities for self-learning that I would never have had if I had a full time job, so some of the things I offer below are from my working time and some are from things I have learnt during my studying time. I am currently learning new concepts in Delphi, PostgreSQL, Heroku, CRUD (Web Services), Hebrew, Kabbalah, Torah, etc.
If you want to discuss being self-employed and all that goes with it...
If you want to discuss ICT (anything about computers)...
If you need an ICT Director or Non-Executive Director...
If you want to discuss Energy Efficiency, Water, Electricity...
If you need a Reiki EnergyTreatment specially designed for SMME's...
If you want to learn to Meditate...
If you want to learn Tai Chi...
If you want to discuss Kabbalah and Gematria...
If you need someone to test your assumptions, and perhaps you don't even know what assumptions you've made...
Then give me a call.
Looking forward to ongoing discussions and I send you healing, blessing, shalom (peace and wholeness), and wisdom today, and always.
PS: My wife also works from home. She is a DPPT Practitioner, Directed Pressure Point Technique. She helps people to heal themselves. Things like lower back pain. Any joint pain. Elbows, Knees, Hips, Sciatica. Let me know and I'll put you in touch with her. Her name is Mirjana. If you've been told you need an operation, or you've been told tried everything and there is "nothing else", or you want to heal using an amazing modality, then let me know and I'll put you in touch with Mirjana.
Delphi and Oracle back-office bespoke software development. Bespoke means especially for you.
Also, SQL-Server, mySQL, PostgreSQL, Interbase, Informix and any Relational Database Management System.
Self employed for more than 26 years. Had ups and downs. More ups than downs. Permanently employed in London, UK, for six years from Feb 1989 until Nov 1994, so I have the best of both worlds.
Worked from home for 14 years. And on site when needed. Worked from all over the world, using VPN, so that I can be on your network, as if I am at your office, securely, and uncompromisingly.
Some amazing ICT things I've done recently: optimised queries from 4 hours to 4 minutes and from 10 seconds to 31 ms just by optimising the SQL. Optimised a report from 10 minutes to 11 seconds, by changing the order of fields in an index. Done complex Data Mining.
Being self-employed and working for myself for so long has given me opportunities for self-learning that I would never have had if I had a full time job, so some of the things I offer below are from my working time and some are from things I have learnt during my studying time. I am currently learning new concepts in Delphi, PostgreSQL, Heroku, CRUD (Web Services), Hebrew, Kabbalah, Torah, etc.
If you want to discuss being self-employed and all that goes with it...
If you want to discuss ICT (anything about computers)...
If you need an ICT Director or Non-Executive Director...
If you want to discuss Energy Efficiency, Water, Electricity...
If you need a Reiki EnergyTreatment specially designed for SMME's...
If you want to learn to Meditate...
If you want to learn Tai Chi...
If you want to discuss Kabbalah and Gematria...
If you need someone to test your assumptions, and perhaps you don't even know what assumptions you've made...
Then give me a call.
Looking forward to ongoing discussions and I send you healing, blessing, shalom (peace and wholeness), and wisdom today, and always.
PS: My wife also works from home. She is a DPPT Practitioner, Directed Pressure Point Technique. She helps people to heal themselves. Things like lower back pain. Any joint pain. Elbows, Knees, Hips, Sciatica. Let me know and I'll put you in touch with her. Her name is Mirjana. If you've been told you need an operation, or you've been told tried everything and there is "nothing else", or you want to heal using an amazing modality, then let me know and I'll put you in touch with Mirjana.
Friday, October 26, 2018
Thursday, October 25, 2018
Node and NPM JavaScript
Another Udemy course completed. Although the certificate says 26.5 hours, it took me over 100 hours over a four month period due to doing the exercises and other reading and keeping my life going. Watch this space for some interesting projects coming up. And I was lucky to get some real world billable Javascript work this month, which is live, working, and very pleasing. Thanks to Andrew J Mead and Rob Percival and their colleagues for another amazing CodeStars Udemy course.
The course included learning MongoDB, Mongoose, Mocha, SuperTest, Heroku. And reinforced my github knowledge.
The course included learning MongoDB, Mongoose, Mocha, SuperTest, Heroku. And reinforced my github knowledge.
Tuesday, October 23, 2018
10x programming
I found this Q&A on Quora very interesting:
"So the more experienced the more people learn that:
* Keep the code extremely modular
* Write the code that requires least documentation
* Strictly follow the Single Responsibility principle
* peer code reviews with constructive feedback are critical for everyone to evolve to be a better software engineer.
* what used to take 8 hours a day will now likely take 2–3 hours a day
* it is important to complete work and leave the place quickly
* communication is way more important at times than implementation
* designing takes longer time than implementation
* learning a new language is not going to take a lot of time
* sometimes you write bad code to keep the business running"
Friday, October 12, 2018
Integrated Resource Plan 2018
Dear fellow South Africans
re the IRP2018
Nothing has changed since my submissions in 2010. South Africa remains massively short of domestic electricity, water and food.
From an electricity point of view, we still have 40 GW like 20 years ago, but we should have 160 GW. Worldwide growth in electricity, even with Energy Efficiency is 3.6% per annum. That means electricity use should have doubled from 40 GW to 80 in that time, but the population has doubled, so we should be at at least 160 GW.
By our government allowing massive privately funded electricity and water and food growth, in cities, their and our fiscus and tax growth will be accordingly far faster than now. But our government sees constraint and "enclosure" as their means to an end, and so they strangle the economy. Do you feel out of breath? Now you know why!
And see the energy cliff in the 2020's in Slide 15 at https://www.slideshare.net/nazimtiger/power-station-workshop . And you will see the disaster that South Africa is facing.
From a water point of view, in many parts of the country we are making do with 50 litres per person per day, but we should have at least 250 litres per person per day, (including the allowance for industry), to really grow the economy. And we are getting poorer and poorer from a food production and food quality point of view all the time.
Here are my comments from last time. I really don't see the point of commenting again. Government uses my time and resources, free of charge. I don't get thanked, even though I am a very active citizen.
http://saaea.blogspot.com/2010/11/integrated-resource-plan-irp-2010.html
http://www.energy.gov.za/IRP/irp%20files/ORBITAL_RENEWABLE_ENERGY.pdf
And my comments on the NDP also help to inform where we are at.
http://mypowerstation-sa.blogspot.com/2013/09/south-africas-national-development-plan.html
All this research funded my my company.
Regards
David Lipschitz
BSc BSc (Honours) MBA M.Inst.D.
Organising Data, Programming and Bringing Healing
re the IRP2018
Nothing has changed since my submissions in 2010. South Africa remains massively short of domestic electricity, water and food.
From an electricity point of view, we still have 40 GW like 20 years ago, but we should have 160 GW. Worldwide growth in electricity, even with Energy Efficiency is 3.6% per annum. That means electricity use should have doubled from 40 GW to 80 in that time, but the population has doubled, so we should be at at least 160 GW.
By our government allowing massive privately funded electricity and water and food growth, in cities, their and our fiscus and tax growth will be accordingly far faster than now. But our government sees constraint and "enclosure" as their means to an end, and so they strangle the economy. Do you feel out of breath? Now you know why!
And see the energy cliff in the 2020's in Slide 15 at https://www.slideshare.net/nazimtiger/power-station-workshop . And you will see the disaster that South Africa is facing.
From a water point of view, in many parts of the country we are making do with 50 litres per person per day, but we should have at least 250 litres per person per day, (including the allowance for industry), to really grow the economy. And we are getting poorer and poorer from a food production and food quality point of view all the time.
Here are my comments from last time. I really don't see the point of commenting again. Government uses my time and resources, free of charge. I don't get thanked, even though I am a very active citizen.
http://saaea.blogspot.com/2010/11/integrated-resource-plan-irp-2010.html
http://www.energy.gov.za/IRP/irp%20files/ORBITAL_RENEWABLE_ENERGY.pdf
And my comments on the NDP also help to inform where we are at.
http://mypowerstation-sa.blogspot.com/2013/09/south-africas-national-development-plan.html
All this research funded my my company.
Regards
David Lipschitz
BSc BSc (Honours) MBA M.Inst.D.
Organising Data, Programming and Bringing Healing
Monday, June 18, 2018
Growing the South African Economy
African governments should allow deregulation and decentralisation of their water and electricity grids. This will create huge private investment and will grow our water and electricity resources very quickly and at no cost to the government. In fact, due to this private infrastructure investment, governments will more easily be able to carry out their social agendas.
Note that until 1923, there were a number of private electricity grids and suppliers in South Africa. These become a single monopoly in 1923 when the Electricity Supply Commission (Eskom) was formed. So we have the capability and the technology.
We also don't need outside help in the form of handouts and donations. We need technical resources and we need social help, to get our leaders to understand that by relinquishing some control, their economies will grow very quickly and for example in South Africa, a 7% increase in VAT from 14% to 15% might yield R36 billion at a huge cost to the economy, but if the economy was allowed to grow, government would get R133 billion additional revenue from a 10% growth.
Note that until 1923, there were a number of private electricity grids and suppliers in South Africa. These become a single monopoly in 1923 when the Electricity Supply Commission (Eskom) was formed. So we have the capability and the technology.
We also don't need outside help in the form of handouts and donations. We need technical resources and we need social help, to get our leaders to understand that by relinquishing some control, their economies will grow very quickly and for example in South Africa, a 7% increase in VAT from 14% to 15% might yield R36 billion at a huge cost to the economy, but if the economy was allowed to grow, government would get R133 billion additional revenue from a 10% growth.
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