Lighton Phiri

While my broader life goals still remain intact–and are likely to remain unchanged for the foreseeable future, a few months back, I made a conscious decision to accelerate my short-to-medium term plans. I decided to get back into graduate school ...

Seeing as VERY few individuals will ever get to read my MSc dissertation , where ...

Spent quite a bit of time trying to figure this one out. It turns out, InnoDB wants an index created on a referenced field. It turns out, the error was as a result of a non-indexed referenced field–title_etd in this ...

I ran out of time a couple of months ago and decided to use the following quick hack to generatea Kiviat plot using ggplot2’s coord_polar function. The result Sample Dataset Used The plot

I had a bunch of makefiles that needed editing–finding and replacing occurrences of strings. It would have taken a long time to manually do it. I used the simple bash scirpt below to recursively barrow into all sub-directories, and subsequently ...