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Show notes: https://phpugly.com/blog/49-whos-watching-who recorded February 11th, 2017 Topics The “pds/skeleton” Standard Is Now Stable! Matt Stauffer: Introducing Laravel Dusk PHPUnit 6.0.0 Is Released Laracon Online Announced Controller Construct Session Changes in Laravel 5.3 Keybase Chat XSS game House Passes Long-Sought Email Privacy Bill De-Anonymizing Browser History Using Social-Network Data The hosts Eric Van Johnson @shocm Twitter / Github / Blog / About.me Tom Rideout Twitter / Github / About.me John Congdon Twitter / Github Follow us on Twitter @PHPUgly Email us at Podcast@phpugly.com Sponsor of this show: The DiegoDev Group

In the same week that Neotel officially became part of Liquid Telecom (a subsidiary of the Econet Group), Anglophone Cameroon clocked a month of going without internet access. Brian Lupiya shares the details in this Tech Minute. Music credit: Brian Lupiya Image credit: Edouard Tamba

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Alison Treadaway is a director and shareholder of the South African eBilling and eMarketing software and services company, Striata. In this chat, Alison unpacks the noble aims of South Africa's imminent enaction of the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPI), and highlights some of the pain points that this ground-breaking piece of legislation is expected to address-- gaps that other African countries will no doubt seek to plug through passing personal data laws of their own.

The continent's two most prominent central banks-- the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the South African Reserve Bank (SARB), have decidedly different attitudes towards the notion of adopting virtual currencies. While the CBN has recently warned the country's financial institutions and citizens that virtual currencies are not legal tender, the SARB has displayed a willingness to emulate Tunisia by launching a blockchain-based digital version of the South African Rand. With bitcoin showing signs of maturing into a legitimate asset class, central banks the world over are grappling with a very real fear of missing out on the cryptocurrency wave. The surf's up, it seems. Also in this week's African Tech Round-up is a chat with Alison Treadaway, director and shareholder of the South African eBilling and eMarketing software and services company, Striata. Alison unpacks the noble aims of South Africa's imminent enaction of the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPI). She highlights some of the pain points that this ground-breaking piece of legislation is expected to address-- gaps that other African countries will no doubt seek to plug through passing personal data laws of their own. Music Credits: Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Music licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution

Show notes: https://phpugly.com/blog/48melt-down recorded February 2nd, 2017 Topics Deprecations for PHP 7.2 orchestral/testbench GitHub’s New Topics Feature GitLab.com Database Incident Suspecting arson, cops subpoena homeowner's pacemaker logs Github Posters of you Commits The hosts Eric Van Johnson Twitter / Github / Blog / About.me Tom Rideout Twitter / Github / About.me John Congdon Twitter / Github Follow us on Twitter @PHPUgly Email us at Podcast@phpugly.com Sponsor of this show: The DiegoDev Group

In this Tech Minute, Brian Lupiya gives the lowdown on an impressive large-scale green project in Cape Town, South Africa and touches on two other leading stories from the latest African Tech Round-up podcast. Music credit: Muzikid

Topics covered in this episode:

• Why Learn Python? Here Are 8 Data-Driven Reasons by Dan Bader
• A million requests per second with Python
• Python Top 10 Articles for the Past Year (v.2017)
• Extras
• Joke

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