It has been really nice blogging here. Very exciting times and articles from brilliant people. I have now decided to consolidate my blogging efforts or one area - http://malisancube.com Thanks a lot to the patrons of this blogging platform for your work and keeping it alive. I will continue to subscribe to the feeds and will continue to learn from this ......

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I have blogged about how you can use WebAPI 2 hosted on OWIN with legacy applications. Visit the link below for more information. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/afr... Technorati Tags: WebAPI,AfricaApps,OWIN,JSON... ......

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I have blogged about Cross platform Windows Azure command line tooling. This is free open source tooling available for developers wishing to use commands to either automate or simplify their build processes. You can see my post here http://blogs.msdn.com/b/afr... ......

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I have blogged about the Dev camp event we had in Nigeria, where I did a session on using Windows Azure Mobile Services on Android Applications. I run through a recipe, in which I created a shopping list application which was shared between Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 and Android. My task was that of developing an Android application from scratch which ......

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I have been following the events at X-tensive.com and excited by the release of DataObjects.Net community license and new features in version 4.5.4. I have always had a sweet spot on DataObjects.Net, mainly because of the clean architecture and features that the product has. Now my mind is getting blown away by features that I never thought may be possible ......

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In November Alex Groß (http://therightstuff.de/) was in Uganda for holidays and we hijacked him to speak to us on some .NET geek stuff. In the image above you see Allan Rwakatungu, Jude Opima, Myself and Alex Groß. More pictures http://www.flickr.com/photo... These are some of the topics that were discussed. Test Driven ......

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This was a very interesting event, I had never spoken in an event with so many developers in one place. It was cool! I had two talks, one on HTML5 and IE9 where I demonstrated the HTML5 and CSS3 coverage in IE9 and performance improvements, the second on ASP.NET MVC Best Practices where I talked about a fraction of things that you need to be aware of ......

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My friend in Zimbabwe sent me an email a day ago with the following contents suppose i have a table called week_days with only 3 fields i.e. SEQUENCE DAY SALES as follows: SEQUENCE DAY SALES 1 Sun 23 2 Mon 18 3 Tue 30 4 Wed 15 5 Thu 20 6 Fri 08 7 Sat 0 i need a query that converts DAY column to a header row and sort by SEQUENCE as follows: DAY Sun Mon ......

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I have been closely following the updates on http://x-tensive.com/ and been impressed with the new features that keep getting added into DataObjects.NET. A few days ago, I saw the 50% sale blog post here and thought it would be very interesting for anyone that wishes to start using DataObjects.NET but feared could not afford the price. DataObjects.NET ......

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Today, We deployed the “David Blaine” version of the TB Module for our EMR solution here at IDI (http://idi.mak.ac.ug). This was mainly for bug fixes and usability improvements based on the feedback that we received from users in the past few weeks. Some of the improvements were related to performance. We had to fine-tune some of our Linq statements ......

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After Dmitri posted DataObjects.Net beta2 last night, I couldn’t wait but test the security framework included. If you have been watching you may know that I worked on the provider for MySQL for DataObjects.NET. I was curious to see how the security framework will feel on MySQL. Well to my ‘extreme’ happiness, after I translated the SalesPoint database ......

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In the month of May we met again for the .NET Usergroup, and I presented some introductory material into software design and architecture. The talk was aimed at looking into new ways of software design and managing of complex software components by using domain driven approach. I talked about best practices, coding patterns and DDD, TDD and DataObjects.NET ......

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Its been a while since I blogged. Its been hard balancing blogging time, work and many other activities. Most my days and even evenings have been cluttered with a number of tasks ranging from mundial to critical. There is some which have been most interesting include very nice lessons I took from from some of the people I respect in the industry. I ......

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We had a very interesting meeting on Friday 28th last week. We had 10 attendees and two speakers. The first topic presented was Cloud Computing, presented by Allan Rwakatungu @arwakatungu who works with MTN Uganda. He gave a very brilliant outline of how Cloud computing and service oriented applications had begun changing the platform for operating ......

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I recently purchased the Kindle 3 and very excited to have this device that lets me read documents without tiring my eyes from the backlight. I can even let it read for me in a fairly natural way “when you get used to it”. I have also played some music using this device and perfectly understand that it was not designed to be some form of music player ......

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