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Cloud Native

Cloud Native Mauritius — March 2025 Meetup

On Saturday 22 March 2025, the Cloud Native Chapter of Mauritius held a meetup in Moka. Eleven people attended this meetup.

Ish Sookun

4 min read
PMI Chapter of Mauritius

PMI Chapter of Mauritius — Embracing Kaizen for Continuous Business Improvement

Last week, I attended my first PMI Mauritius Chapter event, a talk on Embracing Kaizen for Continuous Business Improvement. Stepping into the PMI community was a new experience for me, quite different from our usual tech meetups.

Ish Sookun

3 min read
MSCC

MSCC / NUGM meetup at FRCI

This year's first tech meetup was hosted by FRCI and organised by the Mauritius Software Craftsmanship Community in collaboration with the .Net User Group of Mauritius. We started at 10h35 after a casual chat with some pastries and drinks. JoKi greeted everyone as always, thanking our host, FRCI and reminding

Ish Sookun

2 min read
Cloud Native

First Cloud Native Chapter Meetup at SWAN

Saturday 31 August, the first Cloud Native Meetup was held at the SWAN Head Office in Port-Louis. We are very grateful for this sponsorship and collaboration between SWAN and the Cloud Native Chapter of Mauritius.

Ish Sookun

4 min read
macOS

Long press not working for accent marks on macOS? Here’s the fix!

After upgrading to macOS Sequoia version 15.0.1, you might notice that the long press functionality for typing accent characters, like é, è, â, and ï, is no longer working.

Ish Sookun

1 min read
MSCC

Developers Conference 2024

The Developers Conference 2024 is an annual tech event in Mauritius that brings together software developers, IT professionals, and technology enthusiasts from across the region.

Ish Sookun

13 min read
Laravel

Laravel Livewire table pagination scroll behaviour

The docs page for Livewire 3.x has a section for pagination. It mentions the default behaviours and how to change those. As per the docs, the default behaviour of the paginator is to scroll to the top of the page after every page change (which occurs when clicking the pagination buttons).

Ish Sookun

1 min read
MySQL

Installing MySQL Community Server version 8 on openSUSE Leap 15

The MySQL repository for SUSE Linux provides a simple and convenient way to install and update MySQL products with the latest software packages using the Zypper package management tool.

Ish Sookun

1 min read
Linux

Setting up a TLS certificate for the Cockpit web service

Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface that enables you to manage most of the Linux administration tasks from one place by using plugins.

Ish Sookun

1 min read