Independent Software crafts beautiful websites and databases in Maputo, Mozambique

About Independent Software

Independent Software in Maputo, Mozambique is a strategic design and development agency with big project experience that fuses a passion for creative communication with clients who make a difference.

We collaborate with you to visually charge your message with a uniquely authentic and memorable voice that stands out from the crowd, through custom-built, mobile compatible websites and databases.

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Independent Software's Philosphy for Crafting Websites and Databases in Maputo

Our philosophy for better web development in Maputo, Mozambique

Independent Software works according to a philosophy that we believe in. It’s a philosophy we bring to every website, mobile app or database that we develop for our clients. It is our way of creating quality software that is value for money and always exceeds expectations.

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LATEST TECHNICAL ARTICLES

7 FontAwesome tricks you probably didn't know about css

7 FontAwesome tricks you probably didn’t know about

May 26th, 2017

We’re sure you’re using the fantasic FontAwesome CSS library in all your web apps. Great icons and easy to use! But are you using all the tricks that make FontAwesome even easier to use? Check out these 7 FontAwesome tricks that you may not have spotted in the documentation.
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Slim PHP Microframework: Trouble setting HTTP headers js

Slim PHP Microframework: Trouble setting HTTP headers

May 25th, 2017

I had been using the Slim PHP Microframework with great success building an AngularJS single page web application with a REST backend. Everything was fast, only minimal amounts of data was exchanged between client and server — and then I ran into trouble. Most of my REST responses would set a HTTP content type of application/json . While this worked fine on IIS on Windows, on Apache/Linux the content type would always revert to text/html .

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Matroid Trainable Video Detection news

Matroid: Trainable Video Detection

March 26th, 2017

Originally, a Matroid is a mathematical structure in combinatorics. It is now also the name of a company that detects people and objects in video feeds, and allows users (and devs) to build their own custom detectors.

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Creating JavaScript Objects js

JavaScript Objects: Three Approaches to Object Creation

March 26th, 2017

Objects are JavaScript’s most important data type. They behave much like associative arrays (or hashes) in other languages in that they allow you store and retrieve values by name. In this tutorial, we will look at what a JavaScript object really is, and at three different ways of creating them and the advantages of each approach.

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Coding an Amazon Alexa Skill: Tips and Tricks for Game Development js

Coding an Amazon Alexa Skill: Tips and Tricks for Game Development

February 12th, 2017

Amazon’s Alexa is celebrating her second birthday, and there are over 8 million Alexa devices now in American homes. The UK and Germany are joining this market and Alexa is leaving Apple’s Siri and Microsoft’s Cortana behind. Now Amazon is looking for developers: there are 7,000 skills available in the Alexa skill store but most of them are simple gimmicks. There is nothing that sells a device better than games, so that’s what Amazon wants now.

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Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead - Surviving the early game game

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead – Surviving the early game

January 20th, 2017

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead (C:DDA) is a tough game. Thrown into a post-apocalyptic world with nothing but the clothes on your back and no survival skills to speak of, you must find food, water, and shelter, all the while battling zombies and mutated wild animals. This guide helps you get through the first (and hardest) few days of your life in Cataclysm:DDA.

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