Reveries

John Awotwi

Technical Officer CSIR-INSTI

Community Development | IT Specialist | Information Security.

Self Introduction

Passionate about people & technology. With a plethora of experience managing both people and technology. I am currently a Technical Officer with the Communications Division of CSIR - Institute for Scientific and Technological Information. Here, I am responsible for transforming research outputs into software, tools, equipments and communication systems as tools for national development.

I am BIG about community and have spent the better part of the last decade; growing and managing various tech communities in Ghana. Most recent being the Google Developer Group (GDG). I ASPIRE to INSPIRE.

I like to dabble in a lot of technology related things; from code to Rpi’s.

Posts

Auditing Your Phone

The mobile phones continued growth is evident and shows no clear sign of stopping. As at the time of writing, all major phone manufacturers have come launched new models, with either minute or a significant change in operation of the phone. The one thing that remains constant is the need for apps, apps that power the various functions on the phone.

2021-10-16

3 min read

Heroku Ruby App

In my bid to host my ruby based telegram bot on heroku, I had to jump through hoops due to the fact that my bot was not using webhooks but the polling alternative. This required that I run a script to initiate the bot. This also meant that my bot had no web interface.

2021-02-11

1 min read

Dspace III

Installing Dspace on Digital Ocean. Using Ubuntu 18.04 Install the needed tools with these comnands. sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jdk -y sudo apt-get install ant ant-optional maven -y sudo apt-get install tomcat8 -y Edit the tomcat config files here: sudo nano /etc/default/tomcat8 Uncomment #AUTHBIND=no and change to AUTHBIND=yes

2020-06-29

3 min read