Extreme GUI - or Why Your Software Sucks Programmers By: Saidimu O. Apale contacts.html Pimp your graphical user interface to impress and sell. Consider your target audience and design your GUI for them. Pitfalls to watch out for when designing UI's The good, the bad and the Ugly in GUI's AJAX (Asynchronous, Javascript And XML) and web GUIS Javascript Libraries (Google Web Toolkit, Yahoo User Interface, Scriptaculous, Prototype, Ajaxtags) 15 September 2007 10 am 2 hours Kshs 3,500 View Park Towers, 16th. floor Auditorium 1 contacts.html Registration: 20 Seats Only - Click Here XML: Machine 2 Machine Communications (ICT Communications) By: David Svarrer contacts.html Everybody talks about it, they do it in Europe, they do it in USA, they do it in Canada, why does Kenyans not do it ? What is eXtensible Markup Language? Why does Digital Age Institute Ltd. teach XML? The facts and The myths about XML ? M2M communication before XML, and the new era after XML has come. Why XML is not just hot air?
Multi-heterogenous platform to platform communication and collaboration machine to machine, with XML. business followed up by Q&A 22 September 2007 10 am 2 hours Kshs 1,500 View Park Towers, 16th. floor Auditorium 1 contacts.html Registration: Click Here Java, C++, C#, .NET, Windows, Ubuntu? Programmers By: David T. Svarrer/Saidimu O. Apale contacts.html This business enlightens the listener in depth about benefits and disadvantages from various platforms. No platform "has it all". Choice of Platform is a bargain, a balancing act, and the providers and guru's cannot be trusted 100%. We will here give you 3 professional's different views on the benefits and disadvantages. In depth ability to ask questions. 29 September 2007 10 am 2 hours Kshs 1,500 View Park Towers, 16th. floor Auditorium 1 contacts.html Registration: Click Here Digital Maps, and Algorithms ICT Programmers By: Bidit Mazumder contacts.html Algorithms offer solutions to difficult problems. How this can be aapplied to finding the optimal route in a map, for any given start/end point. How this can be applied to fleet management software. How to represent maps; raster to vector conversion, obstacles and solutions. Dijkstra and paths and algorithms. 06 October 2007 10 am 2 hours Kshs 2,500 View Park Towers, 16th. floor Auditorium X contacts.html Registration: Click Here High Performance Computing Experienced ICT Programmers By: Saidimu O. Apale contacts.html Harness the power of many ordinary, off-the-shelf machines to create a supercomputer (on the cheap!!). Write your programs to take advantage of parallel processing on your supercomputer. Corporates with demand for processing power can benefit from knowing how to turn their plenties of unutilized computers into a corporate super power. 13 October 2007 10 am 2 hours Kshs 2,500 View Park Towers, 16th. floor Auditorium 1 contacts.html Registration: Click Here Windows or Linux ? Management / CIO By: Saidimu O. Apale / David T. Svarrer contacts.html The Operating System MonoCulture is still alive. Some Managers swear to Windows, Windows Servers, MS SQL, MS Office, and says that MS Server has the lowest Total Cost of Ownership at all (TCO), for instance because of that a Linux administrator will charge Kshs 6,000 per hour - while others says that Linux is the solution, Open Office can do more than MS Office, Windows is a Virus-breeding platform while Linux has 2 (two) known virus'es - which can only run if the administrator is really stupid, Linux has a security system while Windows has not, Linux is a true operating system while Windows is merely a DOS-box-extension with, yes, Windows attached - which Bill Gates were stealing from Xerox.

Welcome to a fact-slinging match between the two giants, followed by debate and questions, and then we will bring some clarity to the picture of the Systems MonoCulture, where we will advise on how your business can avoid making a fatal choice of mono-culture, and how you can take advantage of the use of hybrid platforms for your business. 20 October 2007 10 am 2 hours + debate Kshs 4,500 Serena Orchid Auditorium contacts.html Registration: Metabolistic Software Development Cutting Edge Software Research & Development By: David T. Svarrer contacts.html At the cutting edge of Computer research and development is Metabolistic Software Development. Create efficient, collaborating systems, working massive parallel and with multi-threaded serial communication structure. Hear how modelling of computer software using templates from our cells, our blood stream, gives you tremendous benefits (as a model of our metabolism) to create the internal communication vehicle in computers. Plenty of hithertho complex problems with parallel programming are getting solved, this way. If you think computers are only for accounting and finance, you are in for an eye opener. You must have flair for programming, and some knowledge about storage of data, Machine 2 Machine communication and such areas. 27 October 2007 10 am 2 hours Kshs 2,500 View Park Towers, 16th. floor Auditorium 1 contacts.html Registration: Click Here Evaluating Software ICT Procurement/Management By: David T. Svarrer contacts.html How do you professionally evaluate software before you buy it. What can you expect ? How will you test its functionality, and how will you list your required features and once you have the list, how will you test the prospect software candidate's feasibility against your feature list ? We go through 10 common pitfalls in Software procurement and how to do it right. We will give you guidelines as to when to buy and when to develop yourself. Which platform shall you choose ? If you have Windows already, can you use Linux ? If you have Linux already, can you use Windows ? Buying of Outsourced services, when it is smart and when it is not so smart. The Software Maintenance Agreement. 03 November 2007 10 am 2 hours Kshs 2,500 View Park Towers, 16th. floor Auditorium 1 contacts.html Registration: Click Here How to make Client/Server Software Programmers; All languages By: David T. Svarrer contacts.html Cool insight in how to make Client/Server software, working on numerous platforms. How to make heterogenous environments where Macintosh, IBM PC, Windows, Linux works on same network. Examples in light weight programming in Java, aimed at giving a light clue to why some Client/Server software's work and others don't, and how to make it work. The business will touch on the various aspects of Multi-Client programming towards databases, how to create multi-entry servers, how to handle many requests, parallel programming, multi-threading, multiple event-listener-handling and so on. 10 November 2007 10 am 2 hours Kshs 2,800 View Park Towers, 16th. floor Auditorium 1 contacts.html Registration: Click Here Agricultural ICT NGO's, Community Developers with some ICT knowledge By: DAI Project Group contacts.html We will here explain our vision which we share with Ministry of Information & Communications, as in how ICT can be used and utilized up country, practical examples from real life, where plant diseases, seedling production, seed production, improvement of reporting, preparation for export, quality assurance and quality control, communication to Kenya Agricultural Research Institute and many other things can become available for the farmers. We will here explain how investment in this area can create wealth and growth for Kenya and the region as such. Applications with content, developed by our students - the Kenya Green Pages - will show you how content can be presented and used by persons with low level literacy and little or no computer literacy. 17 November 2007 10 am 2 hours Kshs 2,500 View Park Towers, 16th. floor Auditorium 3 contacts.html Registration: Click Here October 2007 contacts.html Our Mother Corporate CEO (SCR Group A/S of Denmark, www.scrgruppen.dk) will pay us a visit by end September / start October 2007. If you have plans doing business with the Scandinavian countries within ICT Consultancy, or if you want a meeting, kindly do not hesitate to contact us now.. September 2007 contacts.html Digital Age Institute is now closing contracts with our Digital Visitor Registry software as perls on a line. We are receiving requests from conferences, buildings and small and medium sized businesses. Our system is special in that it has an internal way of functioning which strongly assists the security staff in servicing the buildings tenants, while it lays out traps for thieves and snatchers. August 31, 2007 contacts.html Sales of our Visitor Registry software and external hiring of the same by huge international organisations like United Nations for registration of visitors, conference participants, statistics, asset tracking and so on, is becoming a bigger and bigger market for Digital Age Institute Ltd. Example of Service delivered: Total control and digital tracking of 2,500 participants in a conference over 3 days, from 9AM to 5PM: Kshs 305 per participant inclusive of full report and statistics. Terms and Conditions apply. Kindly contact us for quotation. August 23, 2007 contacts.html Digital Age Institute soon launches a digital, integrated concept for anti theft and asset tracking where it becomes possible to mark and tag almost all sorts of valuable equipment, down to mobile phones, books, laptops, and ensure that they don't leave the owner. This concept will be available for demonstration from November 2007 in our premises. Starters kit available for Kshs 330,000+VAT for the hardware. The software is configurable. Terms and conditions apply. Click this news for expression of interest. 15th June 2007 contacts.html Digital Age Institute will train Microsoft Partners in CRM and Navision in our modern facilities in View Park Towers, Nairobi, ... 02nd-16th Jul 2007 Business Courses contacts.html We have been strongly encouraged to launch particular parts of our education for the Kenyan Businesses. We start with weekend courses in Linux, CRM, Navision,... 09th Jun 2007 Graphics for Professional Animation contacts.html Graphical expertise becomes more and more important in modern media. This 25 day course will take the student into the professional graphical world, not distinguishable from what you see on BBC, CNN, Star Wars, and other modern movies... (cancelled due to lack of participants - we will come up with a step-stone to this course soon.) 15th May 2007 contacts.html May-June Intake 2007 ongoing. 30th April 2007 contacts.html We are sorry to disappoint the many late applicants - the class 013-712-11110 Java Beginner Class is full. We will start June intake by mid may for Morning and Evening beginner classes 13th March 2007 contacts.html Digital Age Institute together with 11 students from our Planning 1 class are now developing Fiscal Printer software for Japanese Business Machines Corporation 7-10 Feb 2007 - the Kenya ICT Expo 2007 contacts.html ICT Expo 2007 was a thundering success. Our students exhibited 7 prototype projects. contacts.html contacts.html