November 2009 - skunkworks - Skunkworks Site

Motorola Android- Make or Break for them ?
by ndungu stephen 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

I have been following phone news lately - mainly because it affects 'us' one way or another-- When the Apple iphone first showed up, the phone manufacturers said "...The devices are too expensive, besides, our market share is much more,, it will take time to catch up.." Two years later, the story changes, motorola and sony-e phones are on their way to the negative margins, mototola more on the negative... and Apple takes 20% of total mobile handset profits despite selling only 5.2 million units in the quarter... Not to mention that they are now one of the biggest media online sales company, churning sales in mp3 [lets go after wall mart], books [lets go after amazon] , apps etc [nokia leads the pack though, at 50% with diverse handsets for all prices and uses] Motorola has had to re-think its "smart phone" production as a way to hit back from below the x-axis to somewhere above it by relaunching this new device... http://motorola-android.com/ Will they make it ? What has Google Android and iPhone done right ? http://motorola-android.com/

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kbc.co.ke injected?
by Ndungi Kyalo 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

KBC site , kbc.co.ke has a page I cant make sense of : http://kbc.co.ke/info.asp?ID=6 Are we that tight with the People's Republic? ;-) -- Ndungi Kyalo "God made time, man made haste." biblia.kenya.or.ke

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Vacancy Announcement for Junior Website Developer
by Maryanne Muchai 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

Dear All, Please allow me to use your forum to advertise the attached vacancy announcement. Kindly circulate as widely as possible. Regards, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Maryanne Muchai Administrative Assistant Africa i-Parliaments Action Plan UNDESA Nairobi - Kenya Telephone : +254-20-374 9892/3 Fax : +254-20-374 9894 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Safaricom Unlimited Data - Activation Takes Too Damn Long!
by Edward Obiko 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

<Rant> The first time I sent a message to activate the daily unlimited offer on Safaricom, I promptly got a message to wait for its activation, after they deducted the 200bob, ofcourse. The message telling me the activation was successful came 20min later. So, I sighed, gave them benefit of doubt assuming there was a tech hitch... Today, at 11.52am, I sent a message to 555 and got a reply to wait as per kawa. Till now, I'm still waiting! Tried to call 100, the bloody line aint working! Just missed class since I was waiting to service a client online... Do these offers not comply with normal TOS? Am I the only one whose experienced this? Anyone on S-Con on the list, this is our new #100... </Rant> -- Sent from my mobile device OO Omingo Obiko

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music-on-hold output devices
by Odhiambo Washington 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

Hello Skunk(ette)s, I am looking for information on companies that supply $subject equipment locally. Any pointers? -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "If you have nothing good to say about someone, just shut up!." -- Lucky Dube

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Novus Osavinya
by Cynthia Wahome 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

Hello All Of late when i access some websites i have been getting the Page Novus Osavinya which asks me to login. anyone experiencing that or is it just me? Thanks Cynthia ---------------------------------------------- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by Jambo MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. --------------------------------------------- "easy access to the world"

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Safaricom Doing Vehicular Tracking
by Phares Kariuki 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

http://www.safaricom.co.ke/index.php?id=788 Brilliant, they have the necessary infrastructure... -- With Regards, Phares Kariuki | T: +254 734 810 802 | E: pkariuki(a)gmail.com | Twitter: kaboro | Skype: kariukiphares |

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Software to manage clients and payments-Web or Desktop app?
by John Wesonga 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

Hi, Has anyone done a basic web app that stores customer details, track payments, balances and also allows you to print KRA tax register receipt? I have a client whose running a small business and has requested for software to carry out those tasks, my preference is web based but I think a simple desktop application preferably .NET would be an easier option to build and integrate with the KRA stuff. Would welcome any thoughts or comments -- John Wesonga http://www.multiplechoices.biz http://wesonga.peupe.net http://www.linkedin.com/in/johnwesonga http://www.twitter.com/jwesonga

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Re: [Skunkworks] Use Of UML
by fyodor 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

HI >can quickly become un-understandable -- and the automatic code >generation isnt really solving problems in many cases. (Also >availability of open source UML software is a problem) In my experience, UML gets rather misunderstood for a language yet its just a diagramming notation. Its no OOA/D or a method. I think thats a line most software architects miss. It took time to grasp the concept but one book i highly recommend for anyone who wants to apply UML, which is a very noble idea is, "Applying UML and Patterns by Craig Larman". For the tools, i guess there is a plethora of those out there but my personal favorites are ArgoUML(open-source) and Poseidon(commercial). Anyone interested in sharing ideas and also experiences in the same feel free to shoot me mail or we can take this to the forum. -tyrus _IEEE Member.

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Joomla 1.6 will kick @$$
by [ Brainiac ] 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

For those that have bashed joomla for the two levels of nesting of content and the ovyo ovyo user management, joomla 1.6 will be all that and more. I cannot wait to run and compare this side by side with drupal. Back at all ye joomla bashers! http://community.joomla.org/blogs/community/1061-joomla-16-alpha-2-released…

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