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Congratulations on a successful Barcamp Nairobi
by Daudi Were 16 Jun '10

16 Jun '10

To all the organisers, Congratulations on a successful BarcampNairobi 2010. Ka kisogo ya giraffe mko juu. Only managed to pass through briefly on Saturday morning so I missed badly - the positive vibe and energy was refreshing! I'll be adding my few pics to the Flickr pool here: http://www.flickr.com/groups/barcampnairobi2010/ -- Pamoja e:daudi.were@gmail.com <e%3Adaudi.were(a)gmail.com> skype: d.were

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PHD Researchers for Computing Sciences
by Theus Owicho 16 Jun '10

16 Jun '10

*Faculty of Science* The Faculty of Science consists of six departments: Biology, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Information and Computing Sciences, Physics and Astronomy, Chemistry and Mathematics. The Faculty is home to 3500 students and nearly 2000 staff and is internationally renowned for the quality of its research. The Faculty's academic programmes reflect developments in today's society. * Job description* In the financial services domain, large monoliths of software products are used to control all financial flows in any type of organization. Software monoliths have several well-known disadvantages, recognized by both the vendors and customers of these software products. Examples of these disadvantages are inflexibility, domain unspecificity, and the fact that these systems tend to be hard to maintain. Both vendors and customers of these systems are perfectly aware that better and cheaper customer specific solutions can be created along the service-oriented paradigm. It is non-trivial, however, for vendors of monoliths to chop up their product into complete, secure, deployable, and useful services to be reused in service configurations. This project aims to extract large numbers of services from monolithic products and open source components in the financial services domain using the Service Extraction Process. Fortunately, several platforms and service markets recently have become available, Sales force being one example, in which services can be published, managed, and most importantly composed. These service platforms have a bootstrapping problem in that they do not contain many services to begin with. A significant side effect of this project is that the creation of large numbers of services can solve the bootstrapping problem, since they can be used to populate service-providing platforms, e.g., Sales force. The concrete research questions the candidates will address are the following: Q1: How can we identify useful services within a large body of code? Q2: To which extent can we automate the extraction, conversion, and deployment of services? Q3: Can we do this in a way that is programming language independent? Please be aware that we are looking for candidates with distinct profiles. The * first candidate * will have a master's degree in information or computer science and will specialize in requirements engineering, pattern identification, empirical software engineering and service-based engineering. Furthermore, the student will have a strong background in programming languages and some programming experience. The * second candidate * has a more technical, computer science background, most likely software technology with a focus on compilers and software analysis. Candidates that fit both profiles are particularly invited to apply. The first candidate will work in close cooperation with our industrial partners DBS, Runbook, Yuki, Yunoo, and 42Windmills.com and spend quite some time in these industrial environments, extracting requirements and patterns, and validating the implementation provided by the second candidate. Research will follow an industry-as-laboratory style, meaning that actual research problems are drawn from industry and that researched solutions are tried out immediately in the industrial context. *Qualifications* - Master's degree in computer science, information science or informatics. - Broad experience and interest in the area of software engineering and requirements engineering. - Good communicator, strong social skills, team player. - Independent working style. - A good knowledge of English is an absolute must. *Terms of employment*The candidates are offered a full-time position for 4 years. Salary is in the range between € 2,042 and maximum € 2,612 gross per month. The salary is supplemented with a holiday bonus of 8% and an end-of-year bonus of 8,3% per year. In addition we offer: a pension scheme, a partially paid parental leave, flexible employment conditions. Conditions are based on the Collective Labour Agreement Dutch Universities. For more information we refer to our website about employment conditions<http://www.uu.nl/EN/informationfor/jobseekers/Working-for-Utrecht-Universit…> . The research group will provide the candidates with necessary support on all aspects of the project. *Further details*Additional information about the vacancy can be obtained from: Slinger Jansen (slinger.jansen(a)cs.uu.nl) and Jurriaan Hage ( jur(a)cs.uu.nl) As part of the selection procedure, the candidate is expected to give an outline of his/her research plans in a written report and an oral presentation. *How to apply* When applying, make sure to include (pdf versions of): - A detailed resume (with publications, if you have any) - A motivational letter referring to both or a particular one of the open positions (maximum 3 pages) - Copies of marks and degrees/certificates - A list of two references that we can contact - Your MSc thesis Please send your application before *June 27, 2010* to email address: Science.PenO(a)uu.nl. Please mention vacancy number *64005*. SOURCE; *http://bit.ly/cFS6KE*

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MECER COMPUTERS WARRANTY
by Maingi Chege 16 Jun '10

16 Jun '10

Dear Skunkworks, Is it true that the mecer warranty center don't change faulty parts on their warranty machines unless they are completely broken down. I have a case where my clients pc has squeaking HDD and dragging as you work with it..for the computer fundis bet u know what that means.. was sent to the center which they ignored ..as in awaiting for hdd to crush then to replace which could be 6 months from now hence warranty void.. has anyone else encountered such a a case. have been selling and marketing their pcs coz of the 2 yr warranty clause..... Rgds Chege

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Magnetic Card Reader
by Luke Kuvheya 15 Jun '10

15 Jun '10

hi Guys Anyone know where i can find magnetic swipe card reader(track 1 2 and 3) and also antone who can print and encode. Thanx Luke

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mac osx certification ceners in nairobi?
by wallace ngene 15 Jun '10

15 Jun '10

Do have this in nairobi? -- WALLACE NGENE TARURU wallacengene(a)gmail.com

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Employment Act
by julianne anyim 15 Jun '10

15 Jun '10

Hello, Any ideas on where i can find (download link?) the latest Employment Act? Thank you Regards, Julianne _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. https://signup.live.com/signup.aspx?id=60969

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Networking with Attitude breakfast meeting
by JULIA ADHIAMBO 15 Jun '10

15 Jun '10

Good Afternoon, AFRI Business Developmentwishes to invite you to our monthly Networking Breakfast Meeting: Presentation: Is tax making a hole in your pocket? What you can do to better manage your Tax obligations Speaker: Evans S. Gichia (Senior Tax Consultant) Date: Wednesday 14th July, 2010 Time: 7.00a.m. - 9.00a.m. Venue: The United Kenya Club (State House Rd, Opposite St. Paul’s Chapel); Ample parking available Registration fee: Ksh. 1,000 (includes buffet breakfast)20% discount for repeat participants who bring a friend. Discounts also available for large groups. Our guest speaker Evans S. Gichia is the Director of GS Evans & Associates, Tax Tips Kenya. Evans has worked as a Tax Consultant for 18 years. His professional disciplineis taxation but also includes accounting, Finance, ISO certification Auditing, Administration and Human Resource Management. His objective in business is to help Business Owners, Professionals and Self Employed Professionals develop strategic measures to maximize tax savings at the same time enhancing compliance. Networking with Attitudebreakfast meetingsbring various business people and professionals together to connect, make new contacts and learn from each other in a supportive and inspiring atmosphere. Our meetings are known to inspire participants as well as enable them to network with potential business partners. We therefore offer not only professional knowledge but also a relaxed environment to build business networks. To register for our next meeting or for any inquiries, please contact Julia at 020 2515001 or 0723 305 568 or email j.adhiambo(a)afribusinessdevelopment.com by Monday 12th July, 2010.We have attached to this email a registration form to fill and send back and a meeting calendar for 2010. We look forward to having you at the next meeting. Best regards, Julia Adhiambo Management Consultant 15th Floor, View Park Towers P. O. Box 103635-00101 Nairobi, Kenya T: (254) 20 2515001 M: (254) 723 305 568 j.adhiambo(a)afribusinessdevelopment.com www.afribusinessdevelopment.com

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IP based Cameras for surveillance and hard drives ( 750GB 1TB and 2TB)
by Josy Ngatia 15 Jun '10

15 Jun '10

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Wimax
by Lawrence Kago 15 Jun '10

15 Jun '10

Hi guys.Anybody have an experience wit Safcom Wimax services? We have a client who want the services and have been promised 'heavens'.

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Call to Kenyan Photography Creatives - www.photography.co.ke
by James Gutu 15 Jun '10

15 Jun '10

Greetings. Photography has a huge following in Kenya. I realized this when I started taking photos and found so many people who shared in this interest. But when I searched for "Kenyan Photography", most of what I got was by foreign photographers. www.photography.co.ke is by and for Kenyan photographers. Lets build a serious Kenyan community of Photographers (amateur and professional) and special effects (post production) people - photoshop, lightroom, after effects etc. We will have have one competition a month on different subjects which will give prizes to the winners - hopefully this will keep the creative levels up! I am also trying to organize for authors on the same topics :-) Check out the site and register to start submitting content. For more information, please write to info(a)photography.co.ke Regards, jmg

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