When I did my first post on Mobile Partner, I didnt know it needed such an attention, didnt think it would be so much help to anyone…anyway, I have the latest version right here for download, Enjoy… Download Link: http://since97.com/Mobile_Partner_Latest.rar Please feel free to leave a comment or email me any new updates to the software. Have fun! Link to my blog if you like it…  Read More →

With Orange coming to Kenya and taking over most of the services offered by Telkom Kenya, we all expected a turn around in the way things are done. Am writting this article after massive disappointment in their so called “Broadband” offered over their CDMA network and I hope this article catches the right people at Orange and hopefully I can get what I think I paid for. I have been using Safaricom’s 3G service, excellent speeds whenever I have 3G coverage and really, this is the fastest mobile connection available in East Africa. Unfortunately, for someone... 

During this time and age, its a pity that huge industry players like paypal and authorize.net still have high restrictions for e-traders and online stores based in African countries. Apart from a few countries, most of Africa is restricted to 2nd class payment processing who look like risky to deal with hence loss of business and trust from potential customers. There are a few though that I have seen that quite translate to real business and are professionally setup and with standards even higher than paypal. Some of these even let you accept paypal on your site! I particularly... 

I have seen quite a number of things that we can do as Africans to move to the next level in business and ICT…inform each other of developments in the industries. Being a web developer based in Kenya, (See portfolio at www.hostkenya.net), e-commerce is a huge challenge due to the fact that Kenyan banks have no online merchant solutions. So one of the major Challenges in Africa is payment processing. If you have a good product, you can easily sell it online if you have a good payment processor. Paypal doesnt love Africa that much, they want to “help” us make... 

I have gone through a week of hell without proper internet because while performing an update on my Huawei E220 3g Modem, it hang and the firmware got messed up. I tried all possible options i could find but nothing. When i tried to use my modem on another machine that already had all software installed, it worked properly so i realized that if i have the software, that is mobile partner, I could work perfectly with it. I searched the internet without any success for that until i got into a forum and someone decided to copy it for my from the emulated cd drive that comes with... 

Somehow, open source always rules. There are many commercial and free mysql management tools that are great and really easy to use. I have used a whole line of them, from Navicat MySQL, SQLYog for MySQL and many more. MySQL front was another one that was opensource until it outgrew itself. PHPMYADMIN, web-based mysql management tool is among the best tools i have ever used in my entire career. There may be options but 68% of web hosts use it, 75% of mysql developers do use it and there is no end to the starts. It is the ease in understanding it, the web interface that is easy... 

A good, business-generating website needs to be dynamic. Website text and graphics needs to change frequently to reflect your growth, to make existing customer visit again and new customers up-to-dated. Visitors may not comeback if same website is shown again and again. At Raidar Creative, we are for long term commitment giving our client continuous support and service. Nowdays support is at top priority when designing a website because of the customer experience at the hand of website designers and developers whose lack of professionalism, making the website maintenance a pain. You... 

As the web goes into more sophistication, its hard to keep up with the latest trends in development and making sure you are on the edge of the best. Different technologies are here each day and there is no one who is able to collect them all. This is a simple post that recommends DynamicDrive.com, a place where you find very nice web resources. Here, you will find DHTML resources, CSS Menus, POP-UP menus, AJAX Downloads, JavaScript effects, Form Validation Scripts and much more. Now, I know there are a million and one resources on the internet, please drop a comment here with... 

First, this is for the you who is thinking of your first PHP applications and you want to run and test them on a Windows environment. You need to have a web server and a database server installed. PHP runs best on Apache and the choice of a database server narrows to mysql. Many people know from their own experience that it’s not easy to install an Apache web server and it gets harder if you want to add MySQL, PHP and Perl. I use XAMPP which is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP is really very easy to install and to use –...