Enthralled by a spark of brilliance, swiftly I leapt upon the virtual scribe known as VS Code. A dance of creation to embark upon before the fleeting whisper of thought could dissolve into the ether of memory. Okay! I just wanted to experiment with web scraping so I created a web scraper that automatically monitors the price of a desired Dell monitor on Takealot. This cron job not only web scrapes but also sends me an email alert when the price drops to or below my target of R4000 almost in real-time. Initially priced at R4289, the monitor is slightly over my budget. Yet, with this tool, I can capitalize on price drops. It's a powerful, personalized alert system for tracking price changes. I shared this on LinkedIn and received positive feedback from my network; feel free to share your thoughts too. Takealot Webscape Price Monitor

I recently hosted my giftmbanda.com portfolio website on AWS using S3 for storage, CloudFront for content delivery, ACM for SSL/TLS certificates, and Route 53 for domain name management. Join me in this tutorial article as I walk you through the process of hosting a static website on AWS. A Step-by-Step Guide to Hosting a Static Website on AWS.

This project showcases my use of Terraform to architect and provision a highly available and scalable infrastructure on AWS. The infrastructure includes a CodePipeline for CI/CD and an ECS cluster for deploying containerized applications, with a load balancer, CloudWatch, multiple availability zones, public and private subnets, NAT gateway, autoscaling group, and internet gateway. The CodePipeline automatically integrates and deploys code changes to the ECS cluster through CI/CD. The ECS infrastructure, as well as the rest of the infrastructure, is designed to scale based on demand and provide high availability and fault tolerance across multiple availability zones. If you'd like to read more about this, please visit my article on Medium at giftmbanda.medium.com.

A Global Covid-19 Live Tracker app developed in React offers live global covid-19 stats and individual country's stats. The site is accessible here, Global COVID-19 Live Tracker and the source code is available for review on my Github.

We often have a lot of aspiring entrepreneurs who want to start a business with only an idea and have to deal with the complexity involved with starting up a business. Novelty walks the user through evaluating their business idea, helps the user find the right team for their technical tasks and offers marketing strategies and ways to get funding for the business. Novelty is a product of The Digital Academy in partnership with ABSA. The project was developed using MySQL, Express, Angular, and NodeJs.

A lightweight HTML5, CSS3, and vanilla Javascript food ordering website allow customers to place food orders and forward the order via Whatsapp to the Whatsapp linked to the site, which is ideal for small fast-food businesses. The site is accessible here, WhatsappOrder and the source code is available for review on my Github.

A student attendance register system, the web app, allows students to log their class attendance via a GPS-enabled smartphone. The student turns on GPS/Location on their device,logs in, and selects "Attend" for the module being lectured that they present at. The system checks the student's Device GPS Coordinate against the assigned venue's GPS coordinates. It checks the student's Device GPS Coordinate ping time against the Subject's designated attendance time and then processes the attendance. This project is developed with Laravel, Bootstrap, HTML, and CSS and uses the MySQL database. The source code is available for review on my Github.