Njorku in a top local newspaper in Cameroon

Last thursday (29th Oct 2015) Njorku was featured in a top local newspaper in cameroon " LE QUOTIDIEN DE L’ECONOMIE" and I wasn't even aware we got some national press.. I got to Chad yesterday for an up coming event where I have to talk to youths on how to use the internet to find jobs and this is where I found out
check out the image below for more details on the article (note: the article is in french ).

The #team237show

A few days ago, Fabdal gave me the privilege to talk about my entrepreneurial journey so far in form of a 40mins video.
check this out !

Software As A Service (SAAS) in Africa

source: www.vocso.com

 I hold this belief to be self-evident and unarguably true that Software As A Service (SAAS) based offerings will have an incredible potential to engulf the African market as it opens up unlimited horizons for tech startups to sprawl and find lucrative openings.
Africans who desire to find lucrative inroads into the wealth of possibilities that an internet company offers are short-circuited by lack of money to pay engineers or the skills to build it themselves. interestingly, SAAS based offerings present unique options whereupon those who want to start an online company can actualise their dream with minimal tech or financial constraints by simply installing the software and  running their business

source: www.itiqsolutions.com/

Apparently, an array of internet startups in Africa did no more than download and install open source solutions and then built momentum from there. Cases in point include (But are not limited to) nairaland which used simple machine forum, irokotv which started up with nollywoodlove and found stamina through the use of wordpress and youtube, jobberman which took its first strides with jobberbase and so on and so forth.

 SAAS based offerings have an enormous range of possibilities. Prominent among these possibilities is the fact that it can empower the next startups that are underway to simply click and install and they’ll have their technology sorted out all in the cloud while other pressing business demands and day-to-day operations in sales and marketing are attended to with a 100% focus.

 Come to think of it, the familiar trend which makes waves in Africa runs about as shallow as this: A cross-section of Job-sites are hosted on blogger.com or take the form of wordpress installs. Wouldn’t it be a phenomenal idea if someone offered handy solutions for anyone to start an online company with neither engineering nor money and run on a pay-as-you-go basis?

Just in case you are wondering whether SAAS can fill this engineering and capital void, hang your worries on the shelf and watch SAAS based platforms supply this missing link in Africa.

To further confirm this views, the sort of tech-based companies that make money in Africa via direct technology sales like Huawei do nothing more than provide platforms and then get on to the backstage and push the buttons behind the scenes. That is about as good as it gets, and when all is said and done, there is little else that the general public knows about them in Africa.

Having reviewed the massive benefits of SAAS based solutions, the only logical thing I can do is to throw my full weight behind such initiatives and marshal it to fruition.

September 2015 and beyond

I will be getting back to my rants as a way to spread my crazy mind to the world from the 13th of September 2015 on-wards. Its been crazy 10yrs of writing codes, trying to sell and trying to define a career in a market that really wasn't  ready for what I am producing.

I turn 30 on the date above and I will put a lot more effort in monetizing solid software systems that I have learned to build or manage teams that build in the past 10yrs.

I will step on toes and I will get a bit more bold and hide my real shy self in my house.. this is the internet we can rant what ever we feel like without any remorse...

I WILL BE BACK !

My 26th birthday - The African Hustler Rebirth

Today I just turned 26 and I thank God for that "Noni"... I hope I get a piano as a gift today else I buy it myself.
 Ok here are quotes from my friends and I must say I am very glad reading all the quotes and birthday wishes on facebook, twitter, sms, mobile voice, etc

Friends had the following to say

T Ngu Kingsley a.k.a Dr Sley www.drsley.com said:
"Churchill, i see you sitting right in the center of the source of change. I hope many can see. So many changes to happen will come from you. This one more year add so many blessings and responsibilities as many will come upon u for change in their lives. Be strong and be ready. Be more in spirit for you a greater than man. Blessed you bro. Happy birthday. thanks for all you have been doing for me..." 


Kathleen Ndongmo said:
"Happy birthday to one of the smartest innovative techkies #Cameroon has seen this generation @mambenanje! We are proud of everything you do!"


Leslie Tita said:
"Happy BD to one the best Developers of this generation and a fellow friendly competitor @mambenanje"


Detunji Emmanuel said:
"A Cup of HOT HELLO; 
A Plate of Crispy Wishes;
A Spoon of Sweet Smiles; and,
A Slice of Great Success ... especially for you.
Enjoy the Day ... Sail High into this New Year of yours.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!"


Mbella said:
"on your birthday may u get lots of wishes and praises with sweet dishes and delicacies andkisses from the heart of your near and dear ones"


Julie Owono said:
"Tu as bloqué ton mur pour ne pas avoir de messages d'anniversaire ? Bon anniversaire Churchill ! J'espère que nous aurons l'occasion de nous rencontrer dans la vraie vie, lol ! Take care and enjoy !"


Kanel Landry said:
"Happy B'Day Bro'.This means take a break to realise and enjoy.;) May God bless u for a continuum of heatlh, hapiness,success and prosperity"


Jay Hudson said:
"Am sure he is coding..loool
I just hope the codes are gonna wish u a HBD too dude"

LaReina DeLa Belleza said:
"HAPPY BDAE.WISH U MANY MR YEARS OF BLESSINGS.WISH I WAS DERE SO I BE A MENBER OF POPX THOSE BOTTLES. HV FUN.MINE IS CMX ON DE 24 HP U ASSIST ME."


Senge Ngonge Sone said:
"i say eh papa, over technology for ya side go handicap we oh! why i no di fit write straight for ya wall? u don transform it?
i wanted to wish you A HAPPY BIRTHDAY IN ADVANCE? HOPING AND PRAYING GOD GRANTS YOU MANY MORE RETURNS AND THAT YOU ENJOY YOUR DAY TO THE FULLEST. send wa own bday cake oh!"


MC Baloko said:
"The more candles, the bigger the wish.
Wishing you everything happy for your birthday.
Wishing you miles of smiles in the coming years.
Wishing you all the best for your Birthday.
May all your dreams and wishes come true!
Wishing you all the fun and excitement that only birthdays can bring.
Wishing you all the best on your speacial day.
Wishing you a cheerful birthday.
Best wishes on your birthday and throughout the coming year.
Wishing you a Happy Birthday and many more to come.
May the best of your wishes be the least of what you get.
Wishing you a happy and prosperous birthday and a sweet night of birthday dreams."

Pelagie Ajaga said:
"hppy bday dear. hope u get d courage to feast each time it comes with the sept 11 tragedy lol.hppy bday, enjoy it, rem . God bless u dear"

Gontran said:
"HBD!! May God on this new year help u to accomplish what u hav plan to do, once again happy birthday !!!"

you can get to read all the wonderful comments and wishes on my facebook wall: www.facebook.com/mambenanje


The reason I call this day Rebirth will be apparent in a few months to come

Moving forward in 2011...

My blog has been silent in months or maybe years... I have been hustling at alot of levels and my new nick name became I AM A HUSTLER ;)... inspired by rap music ;).

Ok this is why I haven't blogged in a while:

1) working on www.njorku.com a Human Resource technology hub in the making for Africans world wide and maybe other countries... There is just no limit to this platform I am killing myself on... coding, business ideas, testing, research, growing mad, getting sad, crying, laughing... and watching Google Analytics ;).

2) AfroVisioN Group my foundation is profitable but I have been battling with new staff month over month I have had like 4 failed hirers where I train guys only to realise they cant be up to what I want them and hence cant use them. There is a big problem with education in Africa... the level at which they leave university is like 2yrs behind world class work force for the most intelligent of them all. I have been having a hard time trying to get them up to pare and the frustration wont let me do any other thing like updating my blog

3) I have been having alot of stress and fatigue from step 1 and 2 above to the level where I have had to involve into gaming PLAY STATION FIFA 10 has become a new friend and at times I just sit at home reading news and thinking hard on what next to do. but the HR issues I faced in my business led me to developing the HR platform www.njorku.com... great right ;).

Finally I will like to thank God for all he has shown me and now mom is also happy and brothers, sisters and family are closer as I get to spend less time working and more time with them especially this past month(May 2011) when my hemophilia brother got me scared as he had appendicitis and that needs operation but his blood condition wont allow an operation, I got so scared for the first time in my life for my kid brother and he is the only one I got. Some how I think I should be successful all the time so if I am not really making great inroads in my current business(AfroVisioN Group-> engineering the way towards more profit), I should make great inroads into my family and also my new venture www.njorku.com but all of that is going to change soon from the next quater I will have enough knowledge to employ the best once again and retain them and move fiercely with great outputs... Amen

Alvarion Selected by 4G Africa to Deploy 4G Network in Cameroon

Alvarion Ltd. (NASDAQ:ALVR), the world’s

leading provider of 4G networks in the Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) market, today

announced it was chosen by 4G Africa AG to deploy the first Mobile WiMAX network in

Cameroon. The deployment in the cities of Douala and Yaoundé, two of Cameroon’s

largest metropolitan areas with a total population 5 million people, will provide coverage

using Alvarion’s end-to-end Mobile WiMAX 4Motion™ solution at the 2.5 GHz frequency

band.

The deployment is expected to provide connectivity to over 10,000 users within the first

year. 4G WiMAX™ presents an ideal business case for enabling mobile broadband to

mass consumers. By building a network based on Alvarion’s leading platform, 4G Africa

can cost-effectively offer a wide range of data services to consumers in Cameroon.

“We are excited to work with Alvarion on the first 4G network deployment in Cameroon

and introduce a new era of communications to the residents of Douala and Yaoundé,” said

Dov Bar-Gera, CEO of 4G Africa. “4G Africa is focused on establishing WiMAX networks

in emerging Sub-Saharan countries, such as Cameroon with the overall aim to reduce the

digital divide. Leveraging Alvarion’s technology and expertise allows us to provide a high-

performance quality network, offering valuable broadband services to the residents in this

market.”

Sub-Saharan Africa is considered to be one of the world’s fastest growing economies, yet

lacks the proper infrastructure. We recognize the impressive track record Alvarion holds in

Africa in regard to providing operators excellent WiMAX solutions and early deployment

capabilities.

“Bringing Mobile WiMAX services to Cameroon will enable 4G Africa to provide residents

with the benefits of a complete wireless broadband experience,” said Eran Gorev,

president and CEO of Alvarion. “Our advanced technology will provide complete network

connectivity and allow 4G Africa to be one step closer to their goal of reducing the digital

divide in Sub-Sahara Africa.”

About 4G Africa

4G Africa, a Swiss company based in Zurich, was founded by a team of telecom

entrepreneurs who were actively involved in emerging markets for the last decade.

The mission of 4G Africa is to provide affordable, reliable and state-of-the-art broadband

wireless internet access services in chosen countries in sub-Saharan Africa, in order to

help close the digital divide. In 2011 the company will start offering wireless and different

value added services in Cameroon. www.4gafrica.com

About Alvarion

Alvarion (NASDAQ:ALVR) is a global 4G communications leader with the industry’s most

extensive customer base, including hundreds of commercial 4G deployments. Alvarion’s

industry leading network solutions for broadband wireless technologies WiMAX, TD-LTE

and WiFi, enable broadband applications for service providers and enterprises covering a

variety of industries such as mobile broadband, residential and business broadband,

utilities, municipalities and public safety agencies. Through an open network strategy,

superior IP and OFDMA know-how, and ability to deploy large scale end-to-end turnkey

networks, Alvarion is delivering the true 4G broadband experience today

(www.alvarion.com).

My 25th Birthday and my new name: Mr Churchill Nanje

Hello World

Though I am on vacation I decided to drop a note on my blog since its my 25th birthday.

I am older, stronger and more connected now and I am ready to face life from a different angle. So I decided to officially start bearing my own name which is Mr Churchill Nanje. Well Mambe is my Dad's name so I wont go along with that to my own family.

While growing up to the age of 24, I did a couple of things which I detailed on a blog post this same time last here. Here is the blog post http://blackamphi.com/1309-mambe-churchill-nanje-birthday-present-world.html

So if you want to keep up with me and my younger years prior to last year visit this link http://blackamphi.com/1309-mambe-churchill-nanje-birthday-present-world.html

Now lets talk about me and my life while I was 24.

- I continued expanding my business AfroVisioN Group into other African countries and getting more clients which are between 100 and 150 clients world wide now

- I worked with my partners to launch Camerborn hosted on http://www.camerborn.com the Cameroonian born social media platform

- My company and I worked with Boss Uche Chuta to launch this Global Mobile and Web payment and money transfer platform Vaultnoir hosted on http://www.vaultnoir.com, Africans can now have their own paypal accounts.

- I appeared on B.spirit an in flight magazine over Brussels Airlines... check the blog post below http://mambenanje.blogspot.com/2010/08/mambe-churchill-nanje-profiled-on.html

- Alot of things happened but I cant detail them all in this post...but my partnership in Nigeria kept expanding with naijaborn.com, aimtechng.com, vaultnoir.com, pcklinicng.com, aadilonline.com all being related in one way or another to my Nigeria expansion strategy.

- also my 24th year on earth was filled with expansion, expansion, expansion(my company now has 7 fulltime staff and 5fulltime developers: http://twitter.com/mambenanje/afrovision-staff)...along side alot of articles on sites like cp-africa.com, webtrendsng.com, techmasai.com, edouardtamba.com and many many others who thought I was worth it

show ya sef !

Looking forward to my 25th year on earth and also spending some days off the computer while gaining momentum to continue the ride which I think will be faster and bumpy... watch out for www.njorku.com

Mambe Churchill Nanje Profiled on B.Spirit an Inflight Magazine for Brussels Airlines

If you are travelling this August 2010 via Brussels Airlines, pick up B.Spirit(July 2010 edition) and turn to page 53 to read up on me ;).

Now that I have made the announcement let me start from the beginning:

A few months ago, while I was busy trying to hack some codes I got a mail from a journalist in UK asking if I was available for an interviewing. He writes for B.Spirit ( http://www.ink-live.com/emagazines/b.spirit ) an inflight magazine for Brussels airlines and he was working on an article talking about broadband internet and its effects on Africa.

Well first I wanted to be like the all busy guy that doesnt have time for interviews and the public eye (my usual self) but then again I said ooh well this is exposure for me so let me give it a try.

We had a couple of conversations and finally he told me he was done with the article. Before I knew it Linda Raftree ( http://lindaraftree.wordpress.com/) got to me on twitter with an @reply saying she saw a profile of me as she read one of the magazines in the plane while traveling back to USA from Africa (Nairobi, Kenya). Immediately I had to recall the interview I had with the journalist.

Basically the article talks of myself, AfroVisioN Group ( www.afrovisiongroup.com ) , how it all started and how its growing now with the internet access getting better.

He told me about 600,000 people read that magazine on board the Brussels airlines every month so I am glad to get such exposure at this time of my business journey.

So if you are travelling via Brussels airlines, pick up the B.spirit magazine this August 2010 and check my swag and show me some love here with some comments...

excepts of the article from the magazine are in the graphics below.

show ya sef

click on the image to enlarge and read

Android OS Can Go Social and Replace Facebook

Today I was having my usual rants on twitter and facebook and I posted something peculiar about my observations on Google, Google Me and the whole Facebook effect.

if Android OS becomes social...facebook is going to find it hard to catch up... if I was working for Google...Android will become social

source: http://twitter.com/mambenanje/status/20547187692

But now lets see where I got my theory.

Eric Schmidt(Google CEO) has been talking recently about their Google Me rumors and he says they are not creating something to replace facebook. He said: The problem facebook is solving has been solved, we are solving something else.

I have always known Google as as company that sees a market, and sees a giant in the market...accept the giant and even promotes the giant in the market and build their own solutions that work on top of that giant system and make their own share of the money(this is what they did with MS Office and Windows. they produced Google Docs).

I also know them infamously as a company that knows how to say "if I cant beat you in the air, I will take you to water and land and my overall points from water and land will out weigh the points you get against me in the air" this is a war strategy where you expand the battle field(they did this to the iPhone and released the Droid and they are trying to get non smartphone users interested in smartphones by convincing the non smartphone phone manufacturers to get more smartphones to their clients, Droid, DroiX, Incredible, EVO 4G ).

Talking about Droid and Android...now imagine if the phone turns to become a social gadget that has a login screen when you turn it on (I guess its already using gmail accounts), and as you login you can see feeds of your Android friends network. Once you do some actions and set up your privacy and friend groups for say Co-workers, school mates, family, etc. these groups will see feeds of things you do on your phone in realtime like, snap a picture and save...and your friends will auto see a feed and see the picture and they can comment or share it (Android device to Android Device over the internet)...taking what happens on facebook right inside your phone. Other actions may include when you shoot a video, download an application, buy an application, use a website and other preying/privacy intruding things that facebook does to us now...

well thats the concept I think they might use to expand the market since facebook is king of web social networking, they will push hard and expand the field into social networking on the handset where in facebook will not be able to catch up...take facebook from its comfort zone(web) into a new zone where Google and its Android OS determine the rules and beat them like a pinata lol ;)

If you doubt my theory please see how they are taking Microsoft from Desktop Office tools into cloud office tools...Microsoft is dancing to Google's tune and following the steps of Google while they were leader in office tools, now Google determines the future of office productivity. Thats the kind if turn I can bet on. Also they are the ones deciding the future of smartphones now not Apple, because for the past 6months Apple iOS has only been playing catch up and they are not yet fully recovered lol

See the response and conversation I had on facebook with friends:

Saheed Taiye Adepoju: how should android go social?

Mambe Churchill Nanje: well the OS needs to have a friends app...that keeps your friends on their phones posted about some things you do on your phone...like I snap a new picture, the people I have added to my friends list will be notified of the picture and they can comment right from their phone...then expand it to games, apps, as I do this on an app just like facebook...my friends see a feed of some of my public actions...then they can comment or share it to their own friends...login to facebook is synonymous to login to your android phone

Saheed Taiye Adepoju: they got all that via android apps. The OS is very open and can customise it to be social. You got friendStream on the HTC UI sense which allows one to automatically update twitter and facebook and flickr. I can easily share links from within my android phone, i can pretty much do "social" thing due to the tons of apps on Android market. At the moment, logging into Gmail is same as logging onto ya android phone. If you havent got a gmail acct, the phone is pretty much useless to ya.

Mambe Churchill Nanje: cool...but I dont mean twitter, facebook...I mean ANDROID to ANDROID.... keeping facebook and twitter out of the whole scenario...friend to friend...like phone calls but now friend activities communicated to friends and they can comment and get notifications on their phones...no email, no facebook just phone and internet access

Saheed Taiye Adepoju: Ok, understood. That's just another blackberry initiative. Would be boring :).

Mambe Churchill Nanje: well nothing is boring if well implemented...

Saheed Taiye Adepoju: well i guess keeping with the android initiative of being open, someone might just implement android messaging, that wont be too hard.

Mambe Churchill Nanje: well its more than messaging...the files you save in your phone memory and apps you install, get shared with a couple of people...facebook pretty much is an os...where you have a profile, you login, you see what others are doing on their own space...so this is what I mean...what you save on your phone can be commented on by others...think pictures, videos, text, etc

Saheed Taiye Adepoju: Ok.

Tabi Tabe Ebot: ‎@mambe Google can come up with something like but the probe is will the mass be able to get phones such the nexus with it price tag? i mean here in africa not everyone can afford one.

Laurantine Endah Tatah: ok sa!

Mambe Churchill Nanje: ‎@Tabi its the Android OS that will get this feature...and when naijaborn phones, camerborn phones, encipher tablets get the updated ones...these features come into the device...and you automatically part of the social network and you start building your friends

Tabi Tabe Ebot: ‎@mambe Google can come up with something like but the probe is will the mass be able to get phones such the nexus with it price tag? i mean here in africa not everyone can afford one.

Tabi Tabe Ebot: ‎@mambe well for thats very possible to engineer, i mean you see what i'm talk Google can do it, and someone of your quality can dev that since Android is open, its very possible, i see it even possible to push data at real time, since its pure android to android. Great idea man.

Mambe Churchill Nanje: if I develop it, then I have to push it right inside the next Google Android public release...but its good as Google is asking developers to submit their products

Tabi Tabe Ebot: that will be good. then i should be eyeing an android handset then.

Mambe Churchill Nanje: ooh well...I dont have the right investment to do this...but I can push it so Google does it...I am even thinking thats Google Me

Tabi Tabe Ebot: if thats Google me then there is alot of problem for the others social media company, anywhere lets hold our hands closed and wait on GoogleMe then.

My Resume of Barcamp Cameroon 2010

I was at Barcamp Cameroon 2010, where my company www.afrovisiongroup.com was privileged to be one of the sponsors and I went there to present my new project www.camerborn.com.

I was there along side Nara Njie Litumbe (software developer at AfroVisioN Group), check out his blog post about his participation http://njielitumbe.livejournal.com/1032.html which was to represent AfroVisioN Group and tell the Cameroonian tech community about Model View Controller( MVC ) and its benefits.

I had a presentation about Camerborn.com - Show ya sef...and its future innovations into the Cameroonian tech space.

here are some pictures we took at the event, enjoy

above: thats myself and Nara Njie www.twitter.com/nara_l

above: thats Nara Njie www.twitter.com/nara_l

you can view all the pictures on a facebook album here http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=185212&id=517433359&l=1afff88aeb

Check out Nara's Barcamp Presentation on Model View Controller (MVC) and its use in web, mobile and enterprise software development.

MVC(Model View Controller),Web,Enterprise,Mobile

View more presentations from naral.

INTRODUCING SHOW YA SEF NETWORKS AFRICA - SYSAFRICA

Show Ya Sef Networks Africa (SYSAfrica) www.sysafrica.com is one of those things that made me happy in the year 2009.

I met Francis Oghuma March 2009 and we decided to embark on a new project and that project turned into Show Ya Sef, and we want it to be a network of solutions across Africa and other parts of the world so we called it Show Ya Sef Networks. It starts in Africa which makes it Show Ya Sef Networks Africa... hence SYSAfrica.

Ok thats alot of history lets define it:

SYSAfrica is an African social media platforms and solutions provider. It seeks to provide cultural and local social media community portals and solutions to every African country and beyond. Its known to be the parent company behind www.naijaborn.com (the nigerian custom built social media platform) and www.camerborn.com (the platform of proud Cameroonians that strives to connect them and help them do a lot together in many aspects of life).

ok what the above means is that we are creating social networks in every African country on which we will be developing specialized web, mobile, enterprise solutions to be used by Africans to enhance their possibilities and make them richer, happier and better humans. Thats where SYSAfrica is heading to, so you might soon get a SYSAfrica solution in your country and if you need us in your country or want to work with us, we are also open as long as we all heading towards the same goals.

here are some images to accompany my post

SYS Africa has its development team in Buea (I am the lead developer so its natural). so this is the syslabs logo ;)

Show Ya Sef Camerborn T-shirt

picture credit: Ebot Blaise twitter.com/didiblaise WebDesigner, AfroVisioN Group

for more information about SYSAfrica email info@sysafrica.com or visit sysafrica.com and our portfolio as of now is having www.naijaborn.com and camerborn.com

I cant continue ranting as I got to continue coding for SYSAfrica and AfroVisioN Group

show ya sef !

merci

Building Android Applications From A Web Developer Point of View

Recently my love for Android OS has gone over the bar mainly due to the vast penetration of mobile technology in Africa and the FOSS nature of Android which permits any entrepreneur(even those in the developing world) to start their own smartphone manufacturing company like Nokia, HTC, Apple etc.

So I am getting more and more into Android and smartphone applications development waiting for the next 6years to have a giant industry with my smart apps, and also get started with some outsourcing deals to get a hang of mobile apps development space while it matures in Africa.

As a regular writer for Packtpub.com, I decided to share some of my findings by writing an article that introduces web developers with knowledge in jquery to develop iPhone, Android apps for their existing web applications using jQTouch.

jQTouch is a jquery plugin that can be used by any web application developer with small experience in jquery to build applications for iPhone, iPad and Android devices.

follow the link below to read my article about jQTouch on packtpub.com

http://www.packtpub.com/article/build-iphone-android-ipad-applications-jqtouch-jquery

and view a sample app I developed for iPad, iPhone and Android smartphones in 3hrs for this article http://www.afrovisiongroup.com/twigle/ .

You can test the application above using any webkit enabled browser like Google Chrome or Apple Safari or just use your internet enabled smartphone(iPhone, iPad or Nexus One).

Free Websites For All Cameroonians

When I started the AfroVisioN dream in 2006, I never knew it will get this far:

- over 100+clients and adding every day

- over 5 outsourcing partners

- strong business collaboration with Nigeria and partners

and now that it has gone to this level www.afrovisiongroup.com/projects.php I want to give back something to the Cameroonian people that have raised me for the past 24yrs.

I will push AfroVisioN Group to offer 1000 websites free to all Cameroonians(personal, business or enterprise owners) for the next five years. Any business that needs a website/web+enterprise applications should not go any further, come and get your free custom built solutions with us...visit www.afrovisiongroup.com go to our contact page send us a mail with information "Churchill+Mambe-AfroVisioN+Group-free-website:April+Fools+Joke" and state your company name, your address, email and phone number and our Customer Service team will get back to you. Note that in exactly two weeks after you contact us, you will get a website as powerful as www.pcklinicng.com www.imagine-finances.com and the others we have in our portfolio on www.afrovisiongroup.com/projects.php

Building A Rich Internet Application with Javascript and PHP

My most recent article for packtpub.com is titled "Building a Simple Address Book Application with jQuery and PHP"

In the tutorial styled article, I take the audience through the simple steps towards building a powerful Rich Internet Application like Gmail, Gmaps, Google apps using javascript, JSON communication and PHP. Coming from a Rich Internet background (Flash Certified Developer in 2005), I can bet you that the reason why most Google apps make us feel comfortable and can compete with Microsoft tools or desktop its because of one reason, Javascript and AJAX. And this article will give you some introductions on how to build such applications though to some greater extend you would have to employ things like GWT (Google Web Toolkit)....

check out the article on this link and tell me what you think about it:

we will explore the world of jQuery and PHP in achieving an AJAX style simple address book application using the JSON protocol. The basic application will help the user save, view and delete his or her contacts(name and phone). Its a basic application to demonstrate some key jQuery features like DOM transversing, jQquery event binding and AJAX calls with the $.ajax function....

read more on http://www.packtpub.com/article/building-simple-address-book-application-with-jquery-php

TOP 50 CAMEROONIANS TO WATCH IN 2010 BY DULCE CAMER

Getting up from bed this morning after a long holiday trip to limbe yesterday, I cant be more happy when the first thing I see is an article putting my name on the light along with other top 49 Cameroonian personalities worth emulating in 2010 by Ducle Camer .

This is encouraging but I cant talk more because I got some serious work todo on a private project ;)...dont blame me this is the only time I got to work on my personal projects. You call it holiday, I call it AfroVisioN Group holiday, personal full-job time ;).

check out the list below

TOP 50 CAMEROONIANS TO WATCH IN 2010 BY DULCE CAMER UK....here

http://dulcecamer.blogspot.com/2009/12/dulce-camers-top-50-list-2010.html

Introduction To KohanaPHP - Article for packtpub UK

Recently I was contacted by one of the editors at www.packtpub.com, to come up with an article on programming with Kohana PHP Framework www.kohanaphp.com. I was happy getting such an offer and also happy because I will get to see how good my technology writing skills are ;), to me its some sort of a test. I came up with the article after a couple of days and for my first time, I say I am impressed because my first draft was approved and was said to be ok for publishing.

Oh well personally I was thinking I will have to do a second and third draft before it gets approved.

below is a preview of the article followed by a link to packtpub.com where the article is published... check it out and tell me what you think....merci.

Overview

Kohana PHP Framework is an open source PHP software development framework that helps php developers to build web applications faster, and also, more effectively by providing them with a set of built-in objects/classes. It also enforces highly organized coding standards.

The Kohana PHP Framework is just like Ruby on Rails; it implements the well known software engineering design pattern—Model View Controller(MVC). The Model View Controller software design pattern guides engineers to design their software codes into three separate parts which includes:

• Models: The objects that manipulate data sources and data stores.
• Views: The html and css files with inline php codes that present the user interface and controls to the application users.
• Controllers: Objects in charge of the business logic, displaying the page(views), and routing the click actions from the views to the model and back to the views....

read more on http://www.packtpub.com/article/introduction-to-kohana-php-framework

MY PRESENTATION AT BARCAMP CAMEROON 2009

Last weekend I was at the first barcamp organised in Cameroon and I must say it was very very exciting...I wont talk much about it because you can get to know more about it on www.barcampcameroon.org http://africamp.com/cameroon/ and also follow the updates here http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23barcampcameroon not to forget the pictures here flickr.

On a personal level I had a talk about Active Record which is an implementation of ORM(Object Relational Mapping)

Below is my power point presentation and I hope you like it

My Meeting with Professor Monekosso Gottlieb Lobe

My blog has been missing me alot because of my love for AfroVisioN Group(www.afrovisiongroup.com) and my other projects that you can read on my birthday blog review on blackamphi.com . Ok enough with the excuses because they dont do the job lol. lets get back to the topic at hand....my meeting with Prof Monekosso Lobe, a top Star Cameroonian Elite who has served as African Regional President of WHO(World Health Organisation) and also served Cameroon as a Minister of public health and for the record he is the person that launched Cameroon foremost Medical Institution locally known as CUSS.

While I was in Yaounde at the Ministry of youths and Sports, talking with the national president of Athletic Federation in Cameroon about their need of a website, I had a call from a friend in Buea. The phone call was demanding me to meet with Prof Monekosso and coming back to buea I scheduled the meeting with him this morning.

I was at his place for an hour and we talked about a couple of things relating to empowering Cameroonians and not only making them depend on foreign Aid but also start working and ferning for themselves.

I was very very happy to be on the same table with this 80yr old Cameroonian who has alot of experience and archievements in his portfolio(thanks be to God).

The meeting was about his Global Health Dialogue Platform. www.globalhealthdialogue.org.

We are going to be working with villages and local councils, empowering them with health related information and needs along side supervising their activities.

Where I fit in is the IT department, I am going to define how a platform similar to what I did for Link UP www.villagediary.org (coming soon), but this one will be more geared towards health and the sub urban communities in Cameroon to start with then later spread into other parts of Africa(remember he has once served WHO and he innitiated the project of all District Hospitals we have in Cameroon and most parts of Africa). So the platform will work more with health and our people in the less previledged regions of Cameroon and later Africa.

I will end this blog post here and get to work, but I will keep you posted as things unfold. Dont forget to keep up with what I have been doing for the past three months on www.blackamphi.com and watch out www.naijaborn.com and www.villagediary.org, I built those platforms on this same laptop in this same office right here in Molyko, Buea, Cameroon.

thanks for your time

Cameroon GCE Results 2009 Released

Once more, the results have been released and still not legal for someone to host them online.
I wonder why, but I am still hopping that one day this will change. Last year I wrote a blog post here http://mambenanje.blogspot.com/2008/07/cameroon-gce-results-2008.html
detailing some of the advantages and disadvantages of having the results online.

Which included:

-Raising ICT awarness amongst youths

-Introducing a new source of revenue to the GCE Board by using licenses and paid subscriptions to the results access platform

-Introducing a new source of revenue to cyber cafe owners nationwide

-Increasing the ICT usage amongst youths in Cameroon

The project we had at AfroVisioN Group that involved hosting the Cameroon GCE results online has been canceled (www.passgce.com) and we have continued with www.ubstudents.com as a replacement project targeting the youths of Cameroon, while hoping that one day we will get an opportunity to publish the results using the internet.
Its still So So SAD