It is a Bigmachini World

The story begins with two young minds chatting in a Matatu (public means of transport in Kenya). The discussion was based on the fact that power in one thing that is letting this country down. Black outs, high cost of production due to the use of generators etc. Why not come up with a solution, Kenya has a lot of land laying bare, this land is either arid or semi-arid. There lies a great opportunity to produce solar power. Laying along the equator we receive direct sunlight all year round, why not build solar panels and place them in the desert? One mind thought, as a country we have the potential to create this panel, best situated and optimized for our environment. But the other mind believed that, we can’t make that. The best solar panels have to be imported. This not only pissed me off, but also showed how we have been made to believe that we are a consumer continent. When is this going to stop! When are we are as a continent going to stand up and realize that we need ...

Today we had a talk from Adam Nelson on entrepreneurship. I noted the following: 1. Challenge yourself, don't always give up easy. Make sure you fight till the end 2. Don't get used to changing horses mid-stream, unless the change is causing significant impact, always stay focussed. 3. Make sure your solution is sustaining, (roman profitable) it can get to support yourself and the business even if its minimal 4. always have a plan A, B and Z. plan Z should be the last option when all goes wrong and shouldn't be a stressful option, this can be family, friends, relatives 5. negotiate before it matters, negotiating early is a good thing, than waiting for later when the stakes might be high and you can' negotiate 6. Principle agent people, organization vs people. know when to pitch to a person in charge of a department than when to pitch from a whole organization 7. skill acquire extra skill along the line and don't just stay where you are, even if you ...

Designing tips for windows phone: Panorama control:            Acts like a magazine cover.            Offers a highlight of what is going on            The tile normally has a parallax effect causing the title to run at a different speed than the page            One can have multiple panorama, it does not have to the first one. It can be put anywhere in the application.  Good practice with panorama:            Pick at least three themes to showcase, don’t show entire app in panorama              Surface the highlights of the content to encourage exploration into the application            Make them immersive and showcase your brand as much as possible            Limit the number of panes to five to increase effecti...

mChild+ Health companion application: App download link:  http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/mchild/ac2f40f0-307b-48f9-bc63-4c7aa319ee46 mChild+ background: This is an application that was initially made to help mothers keep track of their vaccinations dates of their children and give an update on when to take back their children for immunization. The MDG4  states that WHO would like to reduce by two-thirds the under-five mortality rate. An this is just one way of helping achieve that. "6.6 million children under five died in 2012. Almost 75% of all child deaths are attributable to just six conditions: neonatal causes, pneumonia, diarrhoea, malaria, measles, and HIV/AIDS. The aim is to further cut child mortality by two thirds by 2015 from the 1990 level. Reaching the MDG on reducing child mortality will require universal coverage with key effective, affordable interventions: care for newborns and their mothers; infant and young child feeding; vaccines; pr...

== Introduction == One of the new ways of advertising in Windows Phone application is to use Nokia Ad Exchange (NAX), powered by [http://www.inner-active.com/ Inneractive]. If you live in country where you can’t use Microsoft Ad Exchange, you can easily use NAX to earn some money from your Windows Phone app. NAX is a mobile in-app advertising exchange offering access to the top ad networks in the world. With one API and one partner, you'll get access to over 120 ad agencies and networks, and you only need PayPal account to get your money. The key NAX features are: * Optimization across 120+ ad networks * Payment enabled in over 200 countries * Manage your own ad campaigns to promote your app * Powerful ad performance dashboard * NAX is free for developers This article shows how to implement location based NAX ad (Banner) in your Windows Phone 8 application. The instructions complement the [https://inneractive.jira.com/wiki/display/DevWiki/Windows+Phone+SDK+guidelines W...

QuoteMaster Version 1.1 is done. +This fixed the error of showing the message box when the favorite button was clicked. +we also added the search capability for the quotes link to the download:  http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/quote-master/4060beed-abd5-416b-a2bf-2f493e6b7185 this is a very simple application to use that comes to a good functionality to help you search for your favorite author, quotes, phrase. 1. The application has the basic features a display page that displays the quotes 2. a favorite page that displays all the favorite quotes that have been selected 3. a search page that takes in a phrase and displays a list of the results enjoy  

Applink:   http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/smsmaster/7eac5acc-f91d-4ad7-946d-4d2d2098d543 SMS Master V 1.2: ---------------------------------------------------- + fixed the bug of the application crashing when text to speech was running and one navigated out of the page + Better UI performance with improved start up time + Share Messages via social media, sms and email + removal of halloween messages, preparing for thanksgiving Thank you for your continual support.