Self interview by Mgcini Nyoni, Poet, Playwright and freelance writer based in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. With poetry published in FIRE IN THE SOUL 100 poems for human rights (New Internationalist / Amnesty International UK 2009), Intwasa Poetry (Amabooks, Bulawayo 2008), Poetry for Charity Vol 2 (Nigeria 2008).
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Fire in the Soul; a take on poetry in Zimbabwe
A week ago a woman gave birth at a tollgate. According to the story the woman was on her way to Gweru Hospital where she had been referred to by the Shangani District Hospital presumably because the district hospital was not capacitated to do the delivery. But that’s just my deduction.
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The hazards of giving birth in Zimbabwe
Read this open letter from Dale Doré Dear Prime Minister, After a brave, harrowing and tearful account of a victim’s experience of being raped you asked: “How do you confront a dictator using democratic means?” With due respect, Prime Minister, it is not by dining with the dictator every Monday while crimes are committed against your supporters. Nor do you confront a dictator by proclaiming that he is part of the solution when he is, and always has been, part of the problem.
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Don’t dine with the dictator
MIX is happening and there is a lot of excitement around the various releases such as the Windows Phone 7 Developer Preview, IE9 Platform Preview and few other announcements that have been made. Clearly, the Windows Phone 7 Developer Preview has generated the maximum interest and opened a plethora of opportunities for .NET Developers. It also takes the mobile development to a new generation and doesn’t force developers to learn different programming language. Along with this, few other releases have been out. The most anticipated Silverlight 4 RC is out and its corresponding templates are also out there for you to download. Once VS 2010 RC was released, it was much of a disappointment that it doesn’t support SL4 development as well as the SL4 Business Application Development (a.k.a. WCF RIA Services). There were few workarounds though nothing concrete. Earlier I had written about how the WCF RIA Services Preview does work with ASP.NET Development using VS 2010 RC.
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Visual Studio 2010 RC – Silverlight 4 and WCF RIA Services Development – Updates from MIX Announcements
The small car from Skoda could use electric powertrains and high level of localization We have no concrete details from Skoda India on its small car (dubbed Joyster ) for the Indian market. During the Auto Expo, IAB spoke to Ashutosh Dixit, Sr. General Manager, Sales & Network Development, SkodaAuto India on the small car.
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Rendering – Skoda’s small car based on Up!
The Chevrolet Beat has a good ride. The gearbox could have been better Engine The Beat comes with 1.2 litre S-Tec II engine, it develops 79bhp at 6200rpm and max torque of 108 NM comes at a high 4400rpm. What’s the deal with this as every manufacture offers a 1.2 litre engine to save money through excise cuts.
The new Nissan Micra was shown to us for the first time. It is solid and attractive The Renault Nissan plant at Oragadam Chennai was inagurated today in the presence of the chief minister and deputy chief minister of Chennai
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We’re back from the Nissan plant with Micra pics!
Microsoft normally make a grand announcement at their MIX conference . Last year, they launched IE8 (has it really been around for 12-months?) This year, they’ve revealed the features coming in IE9 and released a downloadable demonstration (Windows 7/Vista SP2 only). Microsoft confirmed IE9 development in November 2009 but there were very few details
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Microsoft Reveal IE9
You can find Part 1 here: http://blogs.msdn.com/devpara/archive/2010/03/16/jeffrey-richter-at-devweek-2010-part-1.aspx and Part 2 here: http://blogs.msdn.com/devpara/archive/2010/03/16/jeffrey-richter-at-devweek-2010-part-2.aspx
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I’m speaking at the DevWeek conference in London this week and did a short video interview
I was reading Fred’s post today, The Ideal Phone System , and what stands out is how many older technologies didn’t stand the test of time because they were designed with a different set of assumptions about the evolution of voice. In some ways, Fred’s post reminds me of my longtime desire to find the ideal home entertainment system. As we’ve moved a number of times, I’ve created and changed our home a/v system several times over
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My ideal home entertainment system
Don’t want to get labeled as a snooty designer (again), or an elitist gatekeeper (again) so rather than turn this into another “ some designers on 99designs swiped our stuff ” whiny baby screed (again), perhaps we should use this example of spec work ‘inspiration’ to demonstrate how to enter a logo contest on 99designs in ten minutes flat. Without actually having to design anything. You know, “ evolving “, as in the “ evolve or die ” mantra that graphic designers have heard so much recently
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How to enter a logo design contest in ten minutes flat. Without having to design anything
About two months ago, John Resig and I met at Café Algiers in Harvard square to discuss how Microsoft can contribute to the jQuery project. Today, Scott Guthrie announced in his second-day MIX keynote that Microsoft is throwing its weight behind jQuery and making it the primary way to develop client-side Ajax applications using Microsoft technologies
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Microsoft, jQuery, and Templating
AJA Video Systems, a leading manufacturer of professional video interface and conversion solutions, announced that it is now offering its KONA line of capture cards with software for both Mac and Windows-based systems. The company is folding its XENA line of capture cards, designed for the Windows platform, into the KONA product line, giving customers twice the software and flexibility to use KONA cards on all platforms, at no additional cost. The KONA family is AJA?s line of 10-bit uncompressed capture and playback cards for video and audio input and output
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AJA KONA Product Line Goes Cross-Platform
Choosing a web application development language has become a critical task, as programmers now have to develop websites with multiple functionalities. As different application does different types of tasks, it has almost become impossible for a website developer to opt for any particular web application development language. However, thanks to the unprecedented growth in the field of web development , websites now can be built with multiple scripting languages such as Cold Fusion, Perl, JSP, ASP.NET, PHP etc and this has definitely added a new dimension in this field.
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Choosing A Web Application development Language
Learning CSS is a lot easier with the abundance of free tools and resources that you can access online. For the benefit of those who does not know what CSS is, it actually stands for Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). It is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation semantics (such as the look and formatting) of a document written in a markup language.
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Learning CSS Online: Top 10 Sites for Mastering CSS [del.icio.us]
Low cost web hosting company Velnetweb redesigns homepage Velnetweb new homepage Velnetweb a low cost web hosting and domain name registration company, unveils its new look homepage which the company hope will help its existing customer and potential customer find information on the site more quickly. London based Velnetweb provides hosting and web address registration services at the budget end of the hosting market. A spokes person for the company said “we have not redesign our website for the past 4 years or so, our new design, apart from providing better interaction between us and our users also make use of some of the new technologies such as Web 2.0″ he continue “we hope our users like the new site as much as we do”
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Velnetweb unveils new look homepage
Linux is getting more and and more popular everyday partly because of the growing popularity of Ubuntu and the emergence of netbooks.Unlike Windows, Linux is a free and open source software, which means that all the underlying source code can be used, freely modified, and redistributed, both commercially and non-commercially, by anyone under licenses such as the GNU GPL. I know a number of geeks out there who are very loyal Linux users. If you are one of them then here is a compilation of really fun Linux wallpapers that you can use for free.
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25 Best Linux Wallpapers for Ubuntu Users [del.icio.us]
Our weekend freebies section has been one of the most popular portions in this site. That is why we intend to continue this tradition of giving away graphic freebies each week as our way of thanking our loyal readers. This weekend we are pleased to present a set of Photoshop brushes composed of really high resoulition vector flower images that you can use in your noncommercial design projects.
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21 Hi-Res Vector Flower Photoshop Brushes [del.icio.us]
This post is specific to India Its been a month since I wrote my last post. Much of work has been happening around planning for Tech Ed India , the upcoming Virtual TechDays this week as well as our Developer content at the Great Indian Developer Summit 2010 . Its going to be one exciting period starting this week and I am glad I would be able to meet a lot of folks who have written to me personally that they would like to catch up at Tech Ed India. For now, I had a chance to meet the Microsoft India Development Centre team that worked on the Microsoft Indic Language Input Tool (erstwhile Akshara). The team updated me that they have also released the scripts so that the Indic input feature can be encapsulated into your own websites. For example, if you are having a web page where you collect user information, you can pretty much make your site indic aware i.e
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Making your ASP.NET/HTML Websites Indic aware – accepting Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Hindi and other language input
The previous article of the Ethos, Pathos, and Logos series defined pathos and described why emotional connection is so important for your presentations. In this article, we explore how to build strong pathos in your presentations through a variety of emotional pathways. Pathos Superhighways: Your Primary Paths to Emotional Connection All roads are not created equally.
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18 Paths to Pathos: How to Connect with Your Audience