Jude Mwenda

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Name: Jude Mwenda
Date registered: October 2, 2009
URL: http://www.africangeogeek.com
Jabber / Google Talk: jmwenda@africangeogeek.com

Latest posts

  1. Openness for Openness sake — March 9, 2012
  2. A Perspective on East Africa’s Developer Remuneration-(Kenya) — January 18, 2012
  3. Mapping East Africa’s Drought Crisis — July 29, 2011
  4. Kenya’s Geo-Employee- A simple perspective I — June 25, 2011
  5. HTML5 Mapping — June 2, 2011

Most commented posts

  1. WOW!! OMG! OMG! OMG! — 2 comments
  2. My Experiments-Ushahidi and PostGIS, — 2 comments
  3. Happy New Year: 2011 Predictions and Resolutions — 2 comments
  4. Is this the beginning of Ushahidi Spatial? — 2 comments
  5. Kenya’s Geo-Employee- A simple perspective I — 2 comments

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Mar 09

Openness for Openness sake

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opendata

by Jude Mwenda

It has been a while since I churned out my thoughts but this is something that has been piling up in my system that I have no option but to throw camaraderie out of the window on this and put it out there. There have been several Open Data initiatives, and one that comes to …

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Tags: open data

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Jan 18

A Perspective on East Africa’s Developer Remuneration-(Kenya)

Categories:

africa

by Jude Mwenda

Conversation we had been having

It been ages! I know and I am sorry. Things got buffallo and thick. Reminds me of Dj Watene of Strathmore school. Well this has been a pending post until we had this conversation with one @g33kmate. Now my sample space consisted of people who filled in a questionnaire(ex campus mates). If you did not …

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Jul 29

Mapping East Africa’s Drought Crisis

Categories:

GIS

by Jude Mwenda

Drought Mortality

Well, its been ages. I am sorry. But hearing a nitwit on tv the other day say that there are no reported deaths can make a Meru man ran mad, head to KICC and panga the guy like non-sense. I was recently telling @mkaigwa the other day that during campus, we once had a lecturer …

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Tags: africa, drought, geonode, GIS, kenya

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Jun 25

Kenya’s Geo-Employee- A simple perspective I

Categories:

africa

by Jude Mwenda

Following requests by some   GIS students twitter followers, this is a simple perspective of who pays what and who gives the best opportunity. According to my experience the top honchos are Governmant agencies and non for profits/international NGO’s. In terms of career development they also take top postion in my view. Now to be more specific I will …

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Jun 02

HTML5 Mapping

Categories:

GIS

by Jude Mwenda

Mmm, we are indeed living in interesting times. Apart from a mis-calculation on the rapture. Well this topic came up yesterday with my UI designer. Well he had not yet transitioned to HTML5, but as a designer i think HTML 5 is really worth your time. One of the new additions to HTML5 is the map tag. Depicted as
. To have a look at this, have a look at this sample the guys over at W3C put up. If you go ahead and click on one of the planets, the different planets appear from another HTML. Well this can be tied in to Javascript Event. And one can build exciting stuff around this. I try to fathom of how this would have been done via HTML 4. Well for instance on HTML 4, one would have to write Javascript code to get the co-ordinates of the clicked event. With HTML 5 one can get these co-ordinates via the coords attribute. Before one would have a click event for that. This is something i am really interested to be looking at.

Tags: flash, google, html5, tech

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