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We deployed an initial pilot of the Connected Diagnostics Pilot in India, sending alerts of RIF resistant tuberculosis patients via SMS, and simulating automatic calls to patients.

Enhancing shapefiles with metadata extracted from the Geonames database, mixing simple Ruby and Python scripts along with PostgreSQL’s PostGIS extension.

Thoughts on agile methodologies in software development.

Facilitating the development of prototypes for ONE health by bringing together human and animal health experts with hackers in Epihack Tanzania 2014.

Introducing: hg-to-git

Tesis en Ciencias de la Computación: Reconocedor de Dígitos (spike)

Last month I started working on my master thesis in the context of Manas Research. The idea for this research is to contribute with Farm Radio International (an organization that works with many partners in Africa to deliver effective programs to serve...

Extracting Subject Alternative Name from Microsoft authentication client certificates

It is known that instantiating ActiveRecord objects is slow. When querying, most of the time it’s necessary to instantiate them so we can invoke their methods or navigate their relationships. When you need to do a custom select with a group by you...

Ever since Rails 3.1 adopted coffeescript within the asset pipeline as a default, coffescript has become an increasingly popular language for easily writing your javascript code. Despite a lot of tutorials out there on how to write coffee and take...