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Wednesday, 21 November 2012 19:02

Consommer une API Web avec HttpClient

Written by Hinault Romaric DONFACK
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Dans un précédent article, j’ai présenté ASP.NET Web API, la nouveauté phare de ASP.NET MVC 4, qui a pour objectif principal de permettre aux développeurs d’exposer leurs applications, données et services sur le web directement à travers HTTP. Le support d’ASP.NET Web API permet de créer facilement des API Web puissantes, qui peuvent être consultées à partir d’un large éventail de client (réseaux sociaux, navigateurs, terminaux mobiles, etc.).

Monday, 13 August 2012 01:28

African Tech News Tidbits – Week of August 12th 2012

Written by Abou Kone
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Google Africa

As usual don’t forget to check out the podcast of theAfrican Tech Weekly over at Coders4Africa Radio. We are now available on iTunes and soon in the Zune store. If you are doing something interesting in technology in Africa and you want the world to know about it, reach out!

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Pour améliorer les performances de leur application, les développeurs ont couramment recours à l’optimisation côté client et côté serveur. L’optimisation d’une application Web regroupe l’ensemble des techniques qui peuvent aider à accélérer le temps de téléchargement d’une page Web. Parmi ces techniques, on retrouve la minification et la compression du CSS et JavaScript, la mise en cache, l’utilisation des CDN, etc.

Ce billet est le second d’une série sur les techniques d’optimisation du temps de chargement d’une application ASP.NET MVC. Le premier article sur la compression et la minification du CSS et JavaScript peut être consulté sur cette page.

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Saturday, 04 August 2012 04:59

African Tech News Tidbits – Week of August 5th 2012

Written by Abou Kone
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Nigerian Game Studio Maliyo Games

Nigerian Game Studio Maliyo Games

Here are your tidbits for this week.Enjoy!

  • VC4Africa does a feature on Maliyo Games, an interesting company based in Nigeria who produces games based on the “representation of the everyday lives and experiences of Africans”. I am curious to see how it turns out!
Saturday, 28 July 2012 19:38

African Tech News Tidbits – Week of July 29th 2012

Written by Abou Kone
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One Laptop Per Child Rwanda

One Laptop Per Child Rwanda

So what’s new in African Tech News? A bunch of interesting tidbits as usual. But before that, I need you to take some time and head over to Start Some Good and support the 30 Coders Campaign we are currently running to sponsor the training of 33 African software developers. Also don’t forget to tune in this Sunday at 1:00PM for The African Tech Weekly show on Coders4Africa radio, as we will speak with a Senegalese coder doing his thing, and a quick trip to Ghana again this week to get the feel for the local tech scene. Now back to your regularly scheduled program:

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Raindolf Owusu, creator of Anansi, the first African Operating System

Welcome back to another edition! Don’t forget that we still need your help with training the next batch of African Software Engineers. And in Sunday’s African Tech Weekly, we will be interviewing Raindolf Owusu, creator of the Anansi Operating System....

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[.NET][SGBD][SQL Server][Web] Entity Framework Code First : activer la migration automatique

Pendant le développement ou le cycle de vie d’une application, le développeur est très souvent confronté à des situations pouvant entrainer des modifications de son modèle objet et de la base de données. Avec Entity Framework, cette tâche peut s’avérer assez complexe et voir même frustrant pour certains....

Wednesday, 13 June 2012 20:43

African Tech News Tidbits – Week of June 13th 2012

Written by Abou Kone
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Austin Okere

Austin Okere

Here are your African Tech News Tidbits for this week. You can follow them on Twitter using #atntidbits and you will soon find them in Audio version on the Coders4AfricaRadio show starting June 24th 2012.

Saturday, 09 June 2012 22:41

The African Tech News Tidbits Week of June 7th

Written by Abou Kone
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Polyvalent Wireless Communication System

Polyvalent Wireless Communication System

How are we all doing? Here are your ATN Tidbits for this week. By the way, I hope to count you as one of our listeners in my new weekly radio show at Coders4Africa Radio starting June 24th 2012. We will be discussing of course your weekly ATN Tidbits, discovering Coders4Africa and getting to know more of the African Developer and Geek community. It a serious but irreverent affair and audience participation is key. You can link us up on Skype at “Coders4AfricaRadio” to participate live. My prayers and thoughts are also with all the victims and their families of the plane crash in Nigeria. Now without further “Abou” here we go:

Saturday, 02 June 2012 19:16

Infinite redirect loop when using CakePHP

Written by Abou Kone
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You will sometimes run into this issue when using CakePHP, I did  a few times, and randomly or so it seemed and the reason is in my case, and I want to bet in most cases, is that you are using the Auth Component, and added a new action to your controller, and simply forgot to add it to the allowed functions in the Auth Component. Make sure you add the action name that you want to be made available to anyone to the Auth.allow() call in your beforeFilter() function body in the controller where the action is defined.

Tuesday, 29 May 2012 16:09

African Tech News Tidbits: Week of May 30th

Written by Abou Kone
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Kente Clothes Weaver

Kente Clothes Weaver copyright @ www.kenteclothes.net

It’s been a month since the last iteration so there is a lot to go over. Let’s not then waste time:

  • This right here is absolutely cool, straight:Teaching algorithms through kente cloth: a case for Culturally-Situated Educational Software
  • Upcoming in December 2012 in Cote d’Ivoire, The WHUB: It’s a yearly conference and exhibition hosted by Waleya Hub, startup incubator and social business actor in Africa. The event provides with a unique opportunity to showcase a vibrant tech community in Africa and creates amazing networking experience to develop business activities and investments for the continent. This year edition of the Whub Internet and technologies conference and exhibition will take place in Abidjan, Cote d’ivoire from the 13th to the 15th of december 2012. Check it out, it will be worth it....
Tuesday, 24 April 2012 18:38

The Africa Tech News Tidbits: Week of April 25th

Written by Abou Kone
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SenMobile, Makers of Yaboy, winner of the Ericsson Application Award at the App4Africa challenge.

SenMobile, Makers of Yaboy, winner of the Ericsson Application Award at the App4Africa challenge.

Here is what has been happening in the world of African Tech this week:

  • An interview with Jason Njoku, founder ofIrokoTV, known as the “netflix of Africa”. Some good insight in a young business that makes sense because the demand is there on it. On the challenges of growth in Africa, this particular nugget stood out to me:  “At present, more people watch iROKOtv in London than they do in the whole of Nigeria.”..
Wednesday, 18 April 2012 17:47

African Tech News Tidbits: Week of April 17th

Written by Abou Kone
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dotAfricaA lot happening and since my schedule cleared up a bit, let’s do a quick round of what’s been happening in the world of AfricaTech

  • First, this is a must read by Prof. Chukwuma Charles Soludo, titled “Will Europe Underdevelop Africa Again?“, on the inequities of the new Economic Partnership Agreements or EPAs being negotiated right now between between the EU and African Countries. The first two or three paragraphs are a summary of policy talk, it might discourage you but keep on because when Soludo comes around to his own thorough and “meticulate”(meticulous and articulate) analysis of why EPAs are a bad deal for African countries, you will most certainly find a lot of gems. It is my Pick of the Week.
  • An African Renaissance is still 10 to 15 years away says Frost and Sullivan, still within my lifetime God willing!...
Monday, 16 April 2012 15:19

The Mobile Application

Written by Joy
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The programmer’s made dish!

A dish consisting of a number of different features and services together! 

It not only has made life intricately exhilarating but also expanded the IT technology worldwide. The mobile has been a successful device used to bring IT development....

Friday, 13 April 2012 16:44

Girls in Rural Kenya Get That Much-Needed Inspiration!

Written by jackie
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A REPORT ON THE TRIP TO UGUNJA This took place between 30th March 2012 and 2nd April 2012. At first I can say this way the longest road trip I have ever had (9 hours) to Ugunja. We left Nairobi at 8.00 pm and arrived at 5.30 am in the morning. On arrival we had to wait for another 30 minutes for the arranged transport to arrive, then another 30 minutes to arrive at our arranged accommodation at Ukwala. I was too tired and had to take a one hour nap so that I can start my day....

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iCow

In an interesting reflection,Dinfin Mulupi over at HowWeMadeItInAfrica brings up a worry from investors in Kenya that the emphasis on social impact technology is distracting entrepreneurs from building real tech businesses. That’s a  good question to ask I believe, and legitimate from an investor point of view. As argued by Nikolai Barnwell of 88mph, an investment fund: 

Tuesday, 10 April 2012 21:13

African Tech News Tidbits: Week of April 10th

Written by Abou Kone
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Startup Weekend Dakar

Startup Weekend Dakar

Back for another session of ATNT, and I got some good reads for you. This week the topics covered include disruptive technology in an African context, startups raising funds, hackathons, and a robbery/kidnapping victime saved by Twitter, yes you can believe it!......

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Dans mon précédent billet de blog, j’ai présenté sommairement les nouveautés qui ont été introduites par ASP.NET MVC 4 bêta, la prochaine mise à jour majeure du framework Web open source de Microsoft.

Aujourd’hui, je vais revenir sur l’une de ces nouveautés les plus importantes à savoir : Web API. ASP.NET Web API a pour objectif principal de permettre aux développeurs d’exposer leurs applications, données et services sur le web directement à travers HTTP.

Le support d’ASP.NET Web API permet de créer facilement des API Web puissantes, qui peuvent être consultées à partir d’un large éventail de client (réseaux sociaux, navigateurs, terminaux mobiles, etc.). Web API fournit les fonctionnalités suivantes :

Monday, 26 March 2012 23:34

Africa Tech News Tidbits: Week of March 25th

Written by Abou Kone
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Magatte Wade, founder of Tiossan Copyright Forbes

Magatte Wade, founder of Tiossan
Copyright Forbes

Here we are back again. Another round of African Tech news you might have missed over the past couple of weeks:

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Annoying Orange Fan Art, Copyright The Annoying Orange

Annoying Orange Fan Art, Copyright The Annoying Orange

I was going through Dzone and bumped into this article by Bozhidar Bozhanovexplaining his frustration with the interview process at Facebook after being rejected after 3 phone interviews.

In the article Bozhanov explains that the interview process consisted of algorithmic skills and general computer science test (recursion, binary search, basic data structures), basically “easy” stuff that any computer science grad should be able to solve and that is the rub that I personally have with those types of interviews. As Bhozanov puts it (better than I could have):

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