Coders 4 Africa

Recently I stumble into an article written in 2008 featured in coding horror: “Hardware is cheap, Programmers are expensive”. Jeff Atwood author of the articles came up with an interesting analysis by comparing the cost of hardware such as servers and the average salary of software engineers in the United States...

Dans les parties précédentes, nous avons introduit l’internationalisation sur la plateforme .NET et nous avons vu comment procéder à la localisation des vues, des messages d’erreur de validation et des attributs Display dans le modèle

Cependant, jusqu’ici, lors de nos tests, vous pouvez vous rendre compte que notre application ne dispose d’aucun mécanisme permettant à un l’utilisateur à partir de l’interface de choisir une langue ou de basculer d’une langue à une autre à tout moment.

Cet aspect de l’internationalisation d’une application Web ASP.NET MVC 3 Razor fera l’objet de ce billet de blog.....

Memeburn just compiled a list of 30 African startups and it’s an inspiration to see the list of business models and technologies at play. The startup scene in Africa is definitely picking up, and ideas come from all over the continent. Of course South Africa and Kenya are well represented, as well as Nigeria (TruSpot), but there are companies from Cameroon (Njorku, X-Net), Ghana (Dropifi), Zimbabwe (ForgetMeNot)...

If you are working with array properties in your Mongo documents you know that by using $push you can add a value to an existing array or create one and add the value to it like:

Mobile Users in Africa, copyright @ AgenceEcofin

Back at it, after  taking a little break due to a busy work schedule, let’s see what’s been happening in African Tech:

Arthur Zang, copyright @ Agence EcoFin

Arthur Zang is a 24 year old Cameroonian who just came up with the country’s first medical tablet, the CardioPad, which is aimed at helping diagnose heart patients...

Zang explains that the tablet will help “enable remote medical exams and the transfer of those results without the patients travelling to the city where the heart doctors usually practice”.

In a blog entry,  developer Pascal Ehitie Aito from Nigeria shares some insight in the best ways not to create a successful startup. It is funny and definitely makes sense. Highlights:

E-Learning Africa 2012 - Copyright @icw

Tech Event of note on the continent:

eLearning Africa is the continent’s largest gathering of high-level policy makers, decision makers and practitioners from education,business and government. It is the key networking event for developing eLearning capacities in Africa.

Code Hero

This was cool enough for me to mention it,Primer Labs, a company that “makes games that teach and inspire to make all knowledge playable” has release their flagship product, Code Hero. In their words:

The year was 2003. Amadou Daffe (Coders4Africa Co-Founder / CEO) and Ali Kone (Coders4Africa Co-Founder / Director of Programs) from Senegal and Mali respectively were at the beginning of  their careers as engineers in Philadelphia, PA, USA. They had an epiphany and it involved a way in which large numbers of people can benefit from ICT and innovation....