Clear thinking on AI systems, open technology, and modern software.https://hlab.tech/en-ushttps://hlab.tech/posts/enterprise-ai-platform-reference-architecture/https://hlab.tech/posts/enterprise-ai-platform-reference-architecture/A reference architecture for retrieval, orchestration, serving, governance, and AI operations, built around a fictional manufacturer and the production incidents that shaped it.Fri, 23 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMTCase studyAIRAGAI governanceEnterprise architectureKiarie Henry Mbuguahttps://hlab.tech/posts/how-i-built-a-governed-dependency-pipeline/https://hlab.tech/posts/how-i-built-a-governed-dependency-pipeline/I built a quarantine-to-approved npm pipeline that scans every requested package, judges it with a tested Open Policy Agent policy, and keeps evidence for every decision. It blocked a vulnerable lodash version before any developer could install it.Fri, 16 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMTCase studySupply chain securityOpen Policy AgentDevSecOpsAIKiarie Henry Mbuguahttps://hlab.tech/posts/lesson-5-score-match-quality-and-load-results-into-postgres/https://hlab.tech/posts/lesson-5-score-match-quality-and-load-results-into-postgres/Use eval/score.py to compute precision, recall, and F1 for a reconciliation run against the ground_truth.json answer key, then optionally load the same run into a Postgres target schema.Sat, 05 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMTPythonData EngineeringPostgreSQLData QualityKiarie Henry Mbuguahttps://hlab.tech/posts/lesson-4-reconcile-erp-and-crm-records-with-the-pipeline/https://hlab.tech/posts/lesson-4-reconcile-erp-and-crm-records-with-the-pipeline/Run the reconcile CLI to ingest, clean, validate, and resolve ERP and CRM exports into a single crosswalk, quarantine log, and Markdown reconciliation report.Fri, 04 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMTPythonData EngineeringEntity ResolutionETLKiarie Henry Mbuguahttps://hlab.tech/posts/lesson-3-customize-messiness-and-reproducible-config-files/https://hlab.tech/posts/lesson-3-customize-messiness-and-reproducible-config-files/Tune the missing-value, bad-date, encoding, duplicate, orphan, and amount-drift ratios that control how messy a generated dataset is, and save your choices to a config file datagen can replay exactly.Thu, 03 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMTPythonData EngineeringSynthetic DataData QualityKiarie Henry Mbuguahttps://hlab.tech/posts/lesson-2-compare-erp-and-crm-field-mappings-and-ground-truth/https://hlab.tech/posts/lesson-2-compare-erp-and-crm-field-mappings-and-ground-truth/Read the same customer, invoice, and payment across a flat ERP CSV export and a nested CRM JSON export, and learn what the ground_truth.json answer key does, and doesn't, record.Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMTPythonData EngineeringData QualityEntity ResolutionKiarie Henry Mbuguahttps://hlab.tech/posts/lesson-1-generate-a-synthetic-erp-and-crm-dataset/https://hlab.tech/posts/lesson-1-generate-a-synthetic-erp-and-crm-dataset/Use the datagen CLI to produce a reproducible, deliberately messy ERP and CRM export pair, complete with a ground-truth answer key, the foundation every reconciliation lesson in this series runs against.Tue, 01 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMTPythonData EngineeringSynthetic DatauvKiarie Henry Mbuguahttps://hlab.tech/posts/lesson-6-test-model-output-with-deterministic-rules/https://hlab.tech/posts/lesson-6-test-model-output-with-deterministic-rules/Add deterministic rule checks to a prompt-evaluation workflow, then measure exactly where simple substring rules produce false positives and false negatives.Sat, 22 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMTPythonAIRAGModel EvaluationKiarie Henry Mbuguahttps://hlab.tech/posts/lesson-5-benchmark-retrieval-quality/https://hlab.tech/posts/lesson-5-benchmark-retrieval-quality/Turn six labeled retrieval questions into a repeatable BM25 quality report using Hit@k, Recall@k, and mean reciprocal rank, then use the report to find what lexical retrieval misses.Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMTPythonAIRAGRetrieval EvaluationKiarie Henry Mbuguahttps://hlab.tech/posts/lesson-4-merge-rankings-with-reciprocal-rank-fusion/https://hlab.tech/posts/lesson-4-merge-rankings-with-reciprocal-rank-fusion/Combine BM25 and vector rankings with Reciprocal Rank Fusion, promoting chunks found by multiple retrievers without ever comparing their incompatible raw scores.Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMTPythonAIRAGRank FusionKiarie Henry Mbuguahttps://hlab.tech/posts/lesson-3-build-and-search-a-vector-index/https://hlab.tech/posts/lesson-3-build-and-search-a-vector-index/Build a small exact vector index that stores L2-normalized vectors, ranks results by cosine similarity, and rejects vectors from an incompatible model or dimension.Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMTPythonAIRAGVector SearchKiarie Henry Mbuguahttps://hlab.tech/posts/lesson-2-implement-okapi-bm25-from-scratch/https://hlab.tech/posts/lesson-2-implement-okapi-bm25-from-scratch/Build the keyword-ranking function behind a local retrieval pipeline: preserve identifiers, calculate Okapi BM25 scores, and return deterministic ranked results without a search library.Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMTPythonAIRAGSearch AlgorithmsKiarie Henry Mbuguahttps://hlab.tech/posts/lesson-1-chunk-python-and-markdown-for-retrieval/https://hlab.tech/posts/lesson-1-chunk-python-and-markdown-for-retrieval/Build the ingestion pipeline that splits Python and Markdown files into stable, citable chunks, the foundation every retrieval guide in this series searches.Mon, 17 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMTPythonAIRAGChunkingKiarie Henry Mbuguahttps://hlab.tech/posts/lesson-1-a-step-by-step-guide-in-passing-data-to-excel-and-generating-a-pie-chart-using-python-3-7-openpyxl-and-pandas/https://hlab.tech/posts/lesson-1-a-step-by-step-guide-in-passing-data-to-excel-and-generating-a-pie-chart-using-python-3-7-openpyxl-and-pandas/Hello and welcome to this Python and Pandas tutorial series, my name is Henry Mbugua and I will be taking you through the various aspects and new answers of how to pair Python and Excel which unlocks powerful tools that not only reduce your workload but also allow you to do more by helping your […]Mon, 13 Apr 2020 10:01:36 GMTdata sciencePythonKiarie Henry Mbuguahttps://hlab.tech/posts/lesson-3-a-step-by-step-tutorial-on-how-to-use-v-for-directive-and-render-data-in-an-html-page-by-consuming-nasa-neows-api-using-vue-js-framework-2-6-and-axios-js-promise-based-http-client/https://hlab.tech/posts/lesson-3-a-step-by-step-tutorial-on-how-to-use-v-for-directive-and-render-data-in-an-html-page-by-consuming-nasa-neows-api-using-vue-js-framework-2-6-and-axios-js-promise-based-http-client/Hello and welcome to this Vue js tutorial series, my name is Henry Mbugua, I will be taking you through the various aspects, and new answers of how to consuming Nasa Open APIs using Vue.js and Axios.js which is a promise-based HTTP client for browsers and node.js, Vue.js is a progressive JavaScript Framework for building […]Fri, 27 Mar 2020 23:25:08 GMTVue.jsKiarie Henry Mbuguahttps://hlab.tech/posts/lesson-2-a-step-by-step-tutorial-on-how-to-refactor-our-vue-js-code-and-usage-of-vue-js-dev-tools-extension-in-consuming-nasa-open-api-using-vue-js-framework-2-6-and-axios-js-promise-based-http-clien/https://hlab.tech/posts/lesson-2-a-step-by-step-tutorial-on-how-to-refactor-our-vue-js-code-and-usage-of-vue-js-dev-tools-extension-in-consuming-nasa-open-api-using-vue-js-framework-2-6-and-axios-js-promise-based-http-clien/Hello and welcome to this Vue js tutorial series, my name is Henry Mbugua, I will be taking you through the various aspects, and new answers of how to consuming Nasa Open APIs using Vue.js and Axios.js which is a promise-based HTTP client for browsers and node.js, Vue.js is a progressive JavaScript Framework for building […]Sun, 22 Mar 2020 10:48:53 GMTVue.jsKiarie Henry Mbuguahttps://hlab.tech/posts/lesson-1-a-step-by-step-tutorial-on-how-to-consume-nasa-open-apis-using-vue-js-framework-2-6-and-axios-js-promise-based-http-client/https://hlab.tech/posts/lesson-1-a-step-by-step-tutorial-on-how-to-consume-nasa-open-apis-using-vue-js-framework-2-6-and-axios-js-promise-based-http-client/Hello and welcome to this Vue js tutorial series, my name is Henry Mbugua, I will be taking you through the various aspects, and new answers of how to consuming Nasa Open APIs using Vue.js and Axios.js which is a promise-based HTTP client for browsers and node.js, Vue.js is a progressive JavaScript Framework for building […]Sat, 14 Mar 2020 21:47:10 GMTVue.jsKiarie Henry Mbuguahttps://hlab.tech/posts/lesson-4-a-step-by-step-tutorial-on-how-to-register-validation-and-confirmation-urls-integration-to-m-pesa-api-using-laravel-6-9-and-php-7-3/https://hlab.tech/posts/lesson-4-a-step-by-step-tutorial-on-how-to-register-validation-and-confirmation-urls-integration-to-m-pesa-api-using-laravel-6-9-and-php-7-3/Hello and welcome to this PHP/Laravel tutorial series, my name is Henry Mbugua, I will be taking you through the various aspects, and new answers of M-PESA integration using Laravel web framework and PHP 7.3. Laravel is one of the most popular PHP frameworks and can help you build the application from ground up with […]Sat, 07 Mar 2020 20:09:04 GMTLaravel web frameworkKiarie Henry Mbuguahttps://hlab.tech/posts/lesson-3-a-step-by-step-tutorial-on-how-to-develop-c2b-integration-to-m-pesa-on-daraja-using-laravel-6-9-and-php-7-3/https://hlab.tech/posts/lesson-3-a-step-by-step-tutorial-on-how-to-develop-c2b-integration-to-m-pesa-on-daraja-using-laravel-6-9-and-php-7-3/Hello and welcome to this PHP/Laravel tutorial series, my name is Henry Mbugua, I will be taking through the various aspects and new answers of M-Pesa integration using Laravel web framework and PHP 7.3. Laravel is one of the most popular PHP frameworks and help you build an application from ground up with expressive, elegant […]Sun, 09 Feb 2020 11:07:51 GMTMpesa IntegrationLaravel web frameworkKiarie Henry Mbuguahttps://hlab.tech/posts/a-step-by-step-tutorial-on-how-to-develop-an-stk-push-integration-to-m-pesa-api-using-laravel-6-9-and-php-7-3/https://hlab.tech/posts/a-step-by-step-tutorial-on-how-to-develop-an-stk-push-integration-to-m-pesa-api-using-laravel-6-9-and-php-7-3/Hello and welcome to this PHP/Laravel tutorial series, my name is Henry Mbugua, I will be taking you through the various aspects, and new answers of M-PESA integration using Laravel web framework and PHP 7.3. Laravel is one of the most popular PHP frameworks and can help you build an application from ground up with […]Sat, 25 Jan 2020 09:40:52 GMTLaravel web frameworkKiarie Henry Mbuguahttps://hlab.tech/posts/lesson-1-a-step-by-step-tutorial-on-how-to-integrate-to-safaricom-mpesa-api-using-laravel-6-9-and-php-7-3/https://hlab.tech/posts/lesson-1-a-step-by-step-tutorial-on-how-to-integrate-to-safaricom-mpesa-api-using-laravel-6-9-and-php-7-3/Hello and welcome to this PHP/Laravel tutorial series, my name is Henry Mbugua and I will be taking you through the various aspects and new answers of M-pesa Integration using Laravel web framework and PHP 7.3. Laravel is one the most popular php framework and can help you build php application from ground up with […]Tue, 31 Dec 2019 17:22:17 GMTMpesa IntegrationLaravel web frameworkKiarie Henry Mbuguahttps://hlab.tech/posts/a-step-by-step-guide-on-how-to-send-automated-email-attach-a-pdf-document-using-laravel-task-scheduler-in-laravel-6-5-and-php-7-3/https://hlab.tech/posts/a-step-by-step-guide-on-how-to-send-automated-email-attach-a-pdf-document-using-laravel-task-scheduler-in-laravel-6-5-and-php-7-3/Hello and welcome to this PHP/Laravel tutorial series, my name is Henry Mbugua and I will be taking you through the various aspects and new answers of how to build an automated workflow of sending emails in Laravel 6.5. We will also learn how we can generate a pdf document using DOMPDF wrapper for Laravel. […]Sun, 24 Nov 2019 13:35:14 GMTTask SchedulerLaravel web frameworkKiarie Henry Mbuguahttps://hlab.tech/posts/lesson-2-a-step-by-step-tutorial-on-how-to-create-a-ussd-menu-business-logic-using-africas-talking-gateway-in-laravel-5-8-and-php-7-2-10/https://hlab.tech/posts/lesson-2-a-step-by-step-tutorial-on-how-to-create-a-ussd-menu-business-logic-using-africas-talking-gateway-in-laravel-5-8-and-php-7-2-10/Hello and welcome to this PHP/Laravel tutorial series, my name is Henry Mbugua and I will be taking you through the various aspects and new answers of how to build real-time interactive text-based solutions that can be accessed on every type of mobile phone, including feature phone, thus a USSD menu. Every time you dial […]Sat, 16 Nov 2019 11:49:26 GMTUSSDLaravel web frameworkKiarie Henry Mbuguahttps://hlab.tech/posts/lesson-3-a-step-by-step-tutorial-on-how-to-connect-our-github-repository-with-travis-ci-in-test-driven-development-using-django-2-2-and-python-3-7/https://hlab.tech/posts/lesson-3-a-step-by-step-tutorial-on-how-to-connect-our-github-repository-with-travis-ci-in-test-driven-development-using-django-2-2-and-python-3-7/Hello and welcome to this Python/Django tutorial series, my name is Henry Mbugua and I will be taking you through the various aspects and new answers of how to build better software using Test Driven Development. In lesson 2, we created a new Django project and we also learned that we are going to develop […]Mon, 04 Nov 2019 19:28:17 GMTDjango web frameworkPythonKiarie Henry Mbuguahttps://hlab.tech/posts/lesson-1-a-step-by-step-tutorial-on-how-to-create-a-ussd-menu-using-africas-talking-gateway-in-laravel-5-8-and-php-7-2-10/https://hlab.tech/posts/lesson-1-a-step-by-step-tutorial-on-how-to-create-a-ussd-menu-using-africas-talking-gateway-in-laravel-5-8-and-php-7-2-10/Hello and welcome to this PHP/Laravel tutorial series, my name is Henry Mbugua and I will be taking you through the various aspects and new answers of how to build real-time interactive text-based solutions that can be accessed on every type of mobile phone, including feature phone, thus a USSD menu. Every time you dial […]Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:26:59 GMTUSSDLaravel web frameworkKiarie Henry Mbuguahttps://hlab.tech/posts/lesson-2-a-step-by-step-tutorial-on-how-to-create-a-blog-application-in-test-driven-development-using-django-2-2-and-python-3-7/https://hlab.tech/posts/lesson-2-a-step-by-step-tutorial-on-how-to-create-a-blog-application-in-test-driven-development-using-django-2-2-and-python-3-7/Hello and welcome to this Python/Django tutorial series, my name is Henry Mbugua and I will be taking you through the various aspects and new answers of how to build better software using Test Driven Development. In lesson 1, we learned why it is important to use test-driven development. In this lesson, we are going […]Sun, 27 Oct 2019 12:20:13 GMTDjango web frameworkPythonKiarie Henry Mbuguahttps://hlab.tech/posts/lesson-1-a-step-by-step-tutorial-on-how-to-use-test-driven-development-when-developing-applications-using-django-2-2-and-python-3-7/https://hlab.tech/posts/lesson-1-a-step-by-step-tutorial-on-how-to-use-test-driven-development-when-developing-applications-using-django-2-2-and-python-3-7/Hello and welcome to this Python/Django tutorial series, my name is Henry Mbugua and I will be taking you through the various aspects and new answers of how to build better software using Test Driven Development. Developing an application is very difficult, even for a medium-size project which have many moving parts. Software developers are […]Sun, 20 Oct 2019 14:53:55 GMTDjango web frameworkVersion ControlKiarie Henry Mbuguahttps://hlab.tech/posts/lesson-6-a-step-by-step-tutorial-on-how-to-fix-bug-on-registering-confirmation-and-validation-urls-to-m-pesa-c2b-integration-on-daraja-using-django-2-2-and-python-3-7/https://hlab.tech/posts/lesson-6-a-step-by-step-tutorial-on-how-to-fix-bug-on-registering-confirmation-and-validation-urls-to-m-pesa-c2b-integration-on-daraja-using-django-2-2-and-python-3-7/Hello and welcome to this Python/Django tutorial series, my name is Henry Mbugua and I will be taking you through the various aspect and new answers of M-pesa Integration using Django web framework and Python 3.7. In lesson 5, we learned how to register confirmation and validation URL’s, however, we had some challenges with getting […]Wed, 16 Oct 2019 17:15:38 GMTDjango web frameworkKiarie Henry Mbuguahttps://hlab.tech/posts/a-step-by-step-tutorial-on-how-to-monitor-software-errors-in-real-time-using-sentry-in-django-web-applications/https://hlab.tech/posts/a-step-by-step-tutorial-on-how-to-monitor-software-errors-in-real-time-using-sentry-in-django-web-applications/Hello and welcome to this Python/Django tutorial series, my name is Henry Mbugua and I will be taking you through the various aspects and new answers of monitoring applications that help all software development teams to discover and prioritize errors in real-time using Sentry. Application Error Problem Statement Most software developers rely mostly on error […]Sun, 13 Oct 2019 12:02:35 GMTDjango web frameworkSentryKiarie Henry Mbuguahttps://hlab.tech/posts/lesson-5-a-step-by-step-tutorial-on-how-to-register-confirmation-and-validation-urls-to-m-pesa-c2b-integration-on-daraja-using-django-2-2-and-python-3-7/https://hlab.tech/posts/lesson-5-a-step-by-step-tutorial-on-how-to-register-confirmation-and-validation-urls-to-m-pesa-c2b-integration-on-daraja-using-django-2-2-and-python-3-7/Hey and welcome to this Python/Django tutorial series, my name is Henry Mbugua and I will be taking you through the various aspect and new answers of M-Pesa Integration using Django web framework and Python 3.7. In lesson 4, we learned how to prepare our Mpesa model and running migrations, in this lesson we are […]Thu, 10 Oct 2019 10:42:12 GMTMpesa IntegrationDjango web frameworkPythonKiarie Henry Mbuguahttps://hlab.tech/posts/lesson-4-a-step-by-step-tutorial-on-how-to-develop-c2b-integration-to-m-pesa-on-daraja-using-django-2-2-and-python-3-7/https://hlab.tech/posts/lesson-4-a-step-by-step-tutorial-on-how-to-develop-c2b-integration-to-m-pesa-on-daraja-using-django-2-2-and-python-3-7/Hey and welcome to this Python/Django tutorial series, my name is Henry Mbugua and I will be taking you through the various aspect and new answer of M-pesa Integration using Django web framework and Python 3.7. In lesson three we learned how to develop an STK push integration, in this lesson we are going to […]Tue, 10 Sep 2019 17:10:04 GMTMpesa IntegrationDjango web frameworkPythonKiarie Henry Mbuguahttps://hlab.tech/posts/lesson-3-a-step-by-step-tutorial-on-how-to-do-stk-push-integration-to-m-pesa-on-daraja-using-django-2-2-and-python-3-7/https://hlab.tech/posts/lesson-3-a-step-by-step-tutorial-on-how-to-do-stk-push-integration-to-m-pesa-on-daraja-using-django-2-2-and-python-3-7/Hey and welcome to this Python/Django tutorial series, my name is Henry Mbugua and I will be taking you through the various aspect and new answer of M-pesa Integration using Django web framework and Python 3.7. In lesson two we learned how to generate mpesa token, in this lesson we are going to learn how […]Sun, 25 Aug 2019 14:29:09 GMTDjango web frameworkSystem IntegrationKiarie Henry Mbuguahttps://hlab.tech/posts/lesson-2-a-step-by-step-tutorial-on-how-to-generate-mpesa-access-token-using-django-2-2-and-python-3-7/https://hlab.tech/posts/lesson-2-a-step-by-step-tutorial-on-how-to-generate-mpesa-access-token-using-django-2-2-and-python-3-7/Hey and welcome to this Python/Django tutorial series, my name is Henry Mbugua and I will be taking you through the various aspect and new answer of M-pesa Integration using Django web framework and Python 3.7. In lesson one, we learned the importance of having Mpesa developers account, in this lesson we are going to […]Sun, 18 Aug 2019 06:18:10 GMTMpesa IntegrationDjango web frameworkPythonSystem IntegrationKiarie Henry Mbuguahttps://hlab.tech/posts/lesson-1-a-step-by-step-tutorial-on-how-to-integrate-to-mpesa-api-using-django-2-2-and-python-3-7/https://hlab.tech/posts/lesson-1-a-step-by-step-tutorial-on-how-to-integrate-to-mpesa-api-using-django-2-2-and-python-3-7/Hey and welcome to this Python/Django tutorial series, my name is Henry Mbugua and I will be taking you through the various aspect and new answer of M-pesa Integration using Django web framework and Python 3.7. Django is a powerful Python web framework that can help you develop web applications quickly, from a simple prototype […]Sun, 11 Aug 2019 14:10:12 GMTMpesa IntegrationDjango web frameworkPythonSystem IntegrationKiarie Henry Mbuguahttps://hlab.tech/posts/lesson-4-a-step-by-step-guide-on-showing-registered-users-activating-deactivating-users-in-django-2-2-and-python-3-7/https://hlab.tech/posts/lesson-4-a-step-by-step-guide-on-showing-registered-users-activating-deactivating-users-in-django-2-2-and-python-3-7/Hello and welcome to this Python 3.7 and Django 2.2 tutorials, my name is Henry Mbugua and I will be taking through the various aspects of how to show a list of registered users, activating and deactivating users in Django. In our previous lessons, we learned how to create a custom dashboard and we are […]Sat, 22 Jun 2019 14:37:47 GMTDjango web frameworkPythonKiarie Henry Mbuguahttps://hlab.tech/posts/lesson-3-a-step-by-step-guide-on-creating-custom-dashboard-and-login-user-in-django-2-2-and-python-3-7/https://hlab.tech/posts/lesson-3-a-step-by-step-guide-on-creating-custom-dashboard-and-login-user-in-django-2-2-and-python-3-7/Hello and welcome to this Python 3.7 and Django 2.2 tutorial series, my name is Henry Mbugua and I will be taking you through the various aspect and new answer of how to create a custom dashboard, redirect users to this custom dashboard after register and to login user. In our previous tutorial, we learned […]Sun, 26 May 2019 12:04:22 GMTDjango web frameworkPythonKiarie Henry Mbuguahttps://hlab.tech/posts/lesson-2-a-step-by-step-guide-on-how-to-use-bootstrap-and-register-user-in-django-2-2-authentication-system-and-python-3-7/https://hlab.tech/posts/lesson-2-a-step-by-step-guide-on-how-to-use-bootstrap-and-register-user-in-django-2-2-authentication-system-and-python-3-7/Hello and welcome to this Python 3.7 and Django 2.2 tutorial series, my name is Henry Mbugua and I will be taking you through the various aspect and new answer of how to use the Bootstrap front-end framework in Django, and register a user. In our previous tutorial, we learned how to set up a […]Sat, 18 May 2019 12:26:16 GMTDjango web frameworkPythonKiarie Henry Mbuguahttps://hlab.tech/posts/lesson-1-a-step-by-step-guide-on-how-to-use-django-2-2-authentication-system-and-python-3-7/https://hlab.tech/posts/lesson-1-a-step-by-step-guide-on-how-to-use-django-2-2-authentication-system-and-python-3-7/Hello and welcome to this Python 3.7 and Django 2.2 tutorial series, my name is Henry Mbugua and I will be taking you through the various aspects and new answers of this Django python framework and specifically, the Django authentication system. Django comes with a built-in authentication framework that takes care of registering users, associate […]Wed, 01 May 2019 12:02:01 GMTDjango web frameworkPythonKiarie Henry Mbuguahttps://hlab.tech/posts/a-step-by-step-guide-on-how-to-use-gitflow-in-software-development/https://hlab.tech/posts/a-step-by-step-guide-on-how-to-use-gitflow-in-software-development/Introduction Hello and welcome to a step by step guide on how to use Gitflow. In this lesson, we are going to learn what is Gitflow, why it’s important to software developers and how to use it. My name is Henry and let’s learn how to use Gitflow. What is Gitflow In our step by […]Mon, 22 Apr 2019 17:22:36 GMTVersion ControlKiarie Henry Mbuguahttps://hlab.tech/posts/lesson-1-a-step-by-step-guide-to-learning-data-science-using-python/https://hlab.tech/posts/lesson-1-a-step-by-step-guide-to-learning-data-science-using-python/Hello and welcome to this Python and data science tutorial series, my name is Henry Mbugua and I will be taking you through the various aspect and new answers to this data science tutorial series. The first thing we are going to cover is to understand what is data science. What is Data Science? Data […]Sun, 14 Apr 2019 13:49:53 GMTdata sciencePythonKiarie Henry Mbuguahttps://hlab.tech/posts/a-step-by-step-guide-on-how-to-use-git-and-github/https://hlab.tech/posts/a-step-by-step-guide-on-how-to-use-git-and-github/Introduction Hello and welcome to a step by step guide on how to use Git and Github. In this lesson, we are going to learn what is Git, why it’s important to software developers and how to use it. My name is Henry and let’s learn how to use Git. What is Git? Git in […]Sun, 24 Mar 2019 14:02:47 GMTgitgithubVersion ControlKiarie Henry Mbuguahttps://hlab.tech/posts/part-x-displaying-our-posts-to-site-visitors-in-laravel-5-7-and-php-7-2/https://hlab.tech/posts/part-x-displaying-our-posts-to-site-visitors-in-laravel-5-7-and-php-7-2/Hello and welcome to this tutorial series, my name is Henry and I will be taking you through the various aspect of creating a simple blog system using Laravel web framework. In lesson IX, we completed working on our admin dashboard. In this lesson, we are going to work on our landing page. When you […]Sun, 17 Mar 2019 18:09:44 GMTLaravel web frameworkKiarie Henry Mbuguahttps://hlab.tech/posts/learn-how-to-do-web-scraping-using-python-3-7-and-beautiful-soup-4/https://hlab.tech/posts/learn-how-to-do-web-scraping-using-python-3-7-and-beautiful-soup-4/Introduction Hello and welcome to this tutorial, my name is Henry and I will be talking you through the various aspect of web scraping using Python 3.7 and Beautiful Soup 4. There are more than 150 million active websites today and finding relevant, comprehensive and apt information has a pivotal role to play in business, […]Thu, 14 Mar 2019 15:37:48 GMTbeautifulsoup4PythonscrapingKiarie Henry Mbuguahttps://hlab.tech/posts/part-ix-how-to-delete-a-post-and-final-admin-dashboard-touch-in-laravel-5-7-and-php-7-2/https://hlab.tech/posts/part-ix-how-to-delete-a-post-and-final-admin-dashboard-touch-in-laravel-5-7-and-php-7-2/Hello and welcome to this tutorial series, my name is Henry and I will be taking you through the various aspect of creating a simple blog system using Laravel web framework. In Part VIII, we learnt how to edit and update our post. In this Lesson, we are going to learn how to delete a […]Sun, 10 Mar 2019 10:28:41 GMTblogLaravel web frameworkPHPKiarie Henry Mbuguahttps://hlab.tech/posts/part-viii-how-to-edit-and-update-our-post-in-laravel-5-7-and-php-7-2/https://hlab.tech/posts/part-viii-how-to-edit-and-update-our-post-in-laravel-5-7-and-php-7-2/Hello and welcome to this tutorial series, my name is Henry and I will be taking you through the various aspect of creating a simple blog system using Laravel web framework. In Part VII we learned how to upload and display an image. In this lesson, we are going to learn how to edit and […]Sat, 09 Mar 2019 17:21:32 GMTblogLaravel web frameworkPHPKiarie Henry Mbuguahttps://hlab.tech/posts/part-vii-how-to-upload-image-in-our-blog-application-using-laravel-5-7-and-php-7-2/https://hlab.tech/posts/part-vii-how-to-upload-image-in-our-blog-application-using-laravel-5-7-and-php-7-2/Hello and welcome to this tutorial series, my name is Henry and I will be taking you through the various aspect of creating a simple blog system using Laravel web framework. In part VI we were able to store a blog post in our database. In this lesson, we are going to add the ability […]Sun, 03 Mar 2019 08:10:53 GMTblogLaravel web frameworkPHPKiarie Henry Mbuguahttps://hlab.tech/posts/part-vi-how-to-store-and-retrieve-a-blog-post-in-laravel-5-7-and-php-7-2/https://hlab.tech/posts/part-vi-how-to-store-and-retrieve-a-blog-post-in-laravel-5-7-and-php-7-2/Hello and welcome to this tutorial series, my name is Henry and I will be taking you through the various aspect of creating a simple blog system using Laravel web framework. In part V of this tutorial series, we created a form to create a post. In this lesson, we are going to learn how […]Sat, 02 Mar 2019 17:03:00 GMTblogLaravel web frameworkPHPKiarie Henry Mbuguahttps://hlab.tech/posts/part-v-running-our-blog-migration-and-creating-blog-post-in-laravel-5-7-and-php-7-2/https://hlab.tech/posts/part-v-running-our-blog-migration-and-creating-blog-post-in-laravel-5-7-and-php-7-2/Hello and welcome to this tutorial series, my name is Henry and I will be taking you through the various aspect of creating a simple blog system using Laravel web framework. In part IV of this tutorial series, we created our blog migration. We pick from that and learn how to run our blog migration […]Sat, 23 Feb 2019 13:54:12 GMTblogLaravel web frameworkPHPKiarie Henry Mbuguahttps://hlab.tech/posts/part-iv-creating-blog-migration-and-showing-registered-users-in-our-admin-portal-using-laravel-5-7-and-php-7-2/https://hlab.tech/posts/part-iv-creating-blog-migration-and-showing-registered-users-in-our-admin-portal-using-laravel-5-7-and-php-7-2/Hello and welcome to this tutorial series, my name is Henry and am really excited to continue building our blog application using Laravel 5.7. In part III of this tutorial series, we managed to set up our admin portal using Bootstrap 4. In part three, we had a task of querying the registered users and […]Wed, 20 Feb 2019 17:05:42 GMTblogLaravel web frameworkPHPKiarie Henry Mbuguahttps://hlab.tech/posts/laravel5-7-blog-admin-setup-using-bootstrap-4/https://hlab.tech/posts/laravel5-7-blog-admin-setup-using-bootstrap-4/Hello and welcome to part III of this tutorial series, my name is Henry Mbugua and am really excited to continue building our blog application using Laravel 5.7. In part II of this tutorial series, we managed to register a user and logged in our default admin dashboard The next step in this tutorial is […]Sun, 17 Feb 2019 11:07:01 GMTblogLaravel web frameworkPHPKiarie Henry Mbuguahttps://hlab.tech/posts/blog-application-in-laravel-5-7/https://hlab.tech/posts/blog-application-in-laravel-5-7/Hey and welcome to this Laravel tutorial series, my name is Henry Mbugua and I will be taking you through the various aspect of creating a blog in Laravel 5.7 web framework and Php 7.2. In part I of this tutorial series, we managed to set-up our Laravel blog project and we are going to […]Sat, 09 Feb 2019 08:17:30 GMTblogLaravel web frameworkPHPKiarie Henry Mbuguahttps://hlab.tech/posts/part-ii-how-to-sign-up-user-and-send-confirmation-email-in-django-2-1-and-python-3-6/https://hlab.tech/posts/part-ii-how-to-sign-up-user-and-send-confirmation-email-in-django-2-1-and-python-3-6/Hello and welcome to the second part of this tutorial series, I am really excited to continue with this tutorial series. In part one, we were able to setup our django project and we are going to continue from there. Here is the link to part one of this tutorial series. Creating Django Application We […]Sun, 02 Dec 2018 15:09:38 GMTDeveloperDjangoPythonDjango web frameworkKiarie Henry Mbuguahttps://hlab.tech/posts/part-i-email-verification-upon-sign-up-in-django-2-1-and-python-3-6/https://hlab.tech/posts/part-i-email-verification-upon-sign-up-in-django-2-1-and-python-3-6/Hello and welcome to this python, django tutorial series. My name is Henry Mbugua and I will be taking you through the various aspect of signing up a new user and ask them to confirm that they own or control the email address used during sign up, by sending a confirmation email to activate there […]Wed, 24 Oct 2018 05:52:18 GMTDjangoPythonDjango web frameworkKiarie Henry Mbuguahttps://hlab.tech/posts/part-1-building-a-blog-application-using-laravel-5-7-and-php-7-2/https://hlab.tech/posts/part-1-building-a-blog-application-using-laravel-5-7-and-php-7-2/Welcome to the first section of this tutorial series, building a blog application. In the course of this tutorial series, we will be learning the following: Registering and login users. Admin control panel to manage posts and users. Uploading Image. User commenting on posts. Assumption Laravel 5.7 has a few system requirements and in this […]Sun, 14 Oct 2018 08:47:04 GMTblogLaravel web frameworkPHPKiarie Henry Mbuguahttps://hlab.tech/posts/how-to-become-a-better-software-developer-our-thought/https://hlab.tech/posts/how-to-become-a-better-software-developer-our-thought/Hello and welcome to Hlab, in this post we are going to answer a question that has been asked a lot. The question has been asked in various ways including but not limited to: How can I become a better developer? What should I build? Do you have any demo project that I can build? […]Sun, 07 Oct 2018 13:31:02 GMTDeveloperInspirationalKiarie Henry Mbugua