Matrich

Sharp Guyz Re-Union

Matrich — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 09:56:43 +0000

The life at campus and after campus is completely different especially in the social aspect, while at campus, you make loads of friends who you can easily meet and after campus, most of those get lost in the corners of this world and most times, you need to make new friends who are in the environment you operate in.

After several years after campus, I got a thought of having those good friends from campus especially those from my crazy discussion group, The Sharp Guyz meet and get together somewhere outside our busy schedules.

On 13th August, 2011, we set out to Imperial Resort Beach where we chilled and had loads of fun as you can witness for yourself.

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Young Workers Camp 2011

Matrich — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 07:11:20 +0000

Sometime back in June, 2011, I was privileged and blessed to attend the Young Workers Camp 2011, the first camp I have attended which isn’t computer related.

The three days’ camp was themed “Bearing fruit in all seasons” – Psalms 1:1-3 and throughout those days, I had time for reflection, learning, prayer, fun and games. Our minds we surely renewed by the Word and teaching of God; and we were very blessed with several sessions from Peter Asiimwe.

Certainly, I met many young working people and learnt a lot about bearing a lasting fruit in all seasons. Great thanks to our visionary leadership and the organizing committee for the work well done and I can’t wait for next year’s camp.

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Cape of Good Hope and Table Mountain

Matrich — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 04:22:03 +0000

Sjoe, a few months ago, I had a great opportunity to be in Cape Town, one of the great cities in ~~Sausi~~ South Africa. Ever since I started traveling on work-related issues, this was one of my most relaxing especially that it came in at a time when I surely needed a rest from work. In not some many days before the trip, I had actually spent a few days and nights putting some manners into a certain system which wasn’t behaving itself. Also luckily after one day of our arrival, Sausi had a public holiday which gave us ample time to relax and also visit several places in Cape Town.

I would like to thank God, The Almighty, for enabling me get the visa in record time and for the safe while there. Of course, this trip wouldn’t have been that incredible without our hosts, Reagola. These guys made our trip so comfortable, interesting and adventurous Have a great look at what God has blessed Cape Town with. Whenever I travel throughout the world, I see God’s invisible qualities — his eternal power and divine nature as described in Romans 1:20.

Romans 1:20 – For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse

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My family participates and featured in the eLearning Africa Conference 2011

Matrich — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 09:24:34 +0000

eLearning Africa is the Africa Continent’s premier annual conference on ICT-enhanced learning. This year the conference was held in Tanzania between the 25 – 27 May, 2011. As a family, we were very priveleged to have two of our family members i.e. dad, Mr. Kakinda Daniel Lugudde and my youngest brother, Allan Kakinda take active and lead roles in the conference.

Allan was featured in two articles at the conference website i.e. Mobilising Africa’s youth with the help of ICTs and How social networks train social skills.

While at the conference, they made several presentations including:

Integrating 21st Century Pedagogy in Sexuality Education – A case study of the World Starts With Me (WSWM) project by Kakinda Daniel, Training Director, SchoolNet/iEARN Uganda
Introduction to International Collaboration – A case study of iEARN (International Education and Resource Network by Allan Kakinda, SchoolNet/iEARN-Uganda

They also chaired a number of sessions which included:

Wazup? Youth Voices on Life, Love and eLearning chaired by Allan Kakinda
Strategies to Enhance Student Motivation and Career Awareness chaired by Daniel Lugudde Kakinda

Just a few days, an eLearning Africa Conference 2011 video was released and it featured both Allan and dad (Daniel). Please enjoy the video below:

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As a family, we are very proud and happy to have had such a great opportunity. Kudos to dad and Allan.

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FIFA World Cup 2010

Matrich — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:33:27 +0000

I was surely privileged to witness the first FIFA World Cup on African soil live in South Africa. I would like to thank my employees MTN Uganda for offering me such an incredible opportunity. It was surely a lifetime experience which is priceless and will remain to be remembered in our lives.

Please enjoy with me the remarkable experience I had during the World Cup of 2010.

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FIFA World Cup 2010 Experience

Matrich — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 15:31:36 +0000

Sanibona…!!! After a long time without posting, I am back with my greatest ~~adventure~~ ~~tour~~ experience ever. I think you can surely guess what it’s about. Definitely, it’s about the FIFA World Cup 2010, the first World Cup on African soil.

With just a few hours to the finals of this biggest sports event, I was among those who were so privileged, and indeed blessed, to be part of this event. I am now part of those who witnessed live the first world cup hosted on African soil in Sausi (South Africa). For my entire life, it was also my first time to watch a football match live in a stadium. Luckily enough, this wasn’t just a stadium but it was in one of the most artistic and awe-inspiring football venues on the African continent i.e. Soccer City Stadium which hosted the opening ceremony and will host the finals. Woow!! What a blessing!!!

Being sponsored by MTN itself, I and the team had an incredible, fantastic time and this World Cup will remain part of our memory lanes. It was surely a lifetime experience which is priceless and will remain to be remembered in our lives.

Having been to SA before, I couldn’t imagine what I would expect during the world cup. However, it was so cool to feel the World Cup environment live. I must commend the organizers and South Africa for the great work done over there.

We had a number of tours around the city and the hospitality in Sausi (SA) and around the stadium was so great and fabulous. In the stadium, I was seated a few rows away from the pitch and we enjoyed the match. The support in the stadium was very phenomena and it is worthy an experience for any football fan out there. Together as Africa United fans, we blew the vuvuzelas and cheered the players to the maximum we could though there was so much pressure. Seeing penalty shoot-outs was also great though we lost out.

I must say that this World Cup surely leaves a big legacy behind and we (Africans) are so much proud of hosting it. It was also full of surprises as winners of each game weren’t very obvious. Great thanks to the organizers of our trip especially MTN Uganda and MTN Group for the incredible work well done. It was so fantastic (ayoba) that words above are kind of understatement of the whole experience. Most importantly, I give thanks to God, The Almighty, for his continuous blessing as I was among the few who watched this historical World Cup live.

Ayoba, Ayoba…!!!

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Celebrating CSS Naked Day 2010

Matrich — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 06:17:08 +0000

Goosh!! I completely forgot about the CSS Naked Day and when I checked on my website, I realized that there was something wrong. I automatically remembered about being CSS naked and automatically googled to check if it was the day. Thankfully it was the D-day and thanks to the function I added to my site to automatically make my website css naked every year.

So for the second year in a row, I am joining the entire web community to celebrate this big day as a way of demonstrating my compliance to web standards i.e. proper semantic markup and a good hierarchy structure.

For more details, visit http://naked.dustindiaz.com/ and in case you got any running websites, you can join the celebration.

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Plotting Graphs on Python for Series 60 (PyS60)

Matrich — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 09:42:59 +0000

While developing an application for one of my projects, I had a need to plot several graphs showing the trends of the inputted data. In the course of finding a solution for this, I came across a great PyS60 API called PySchart by Marcel Pinheiro Caraciolo which provides a standard to construct graphs on PyS60 platform.

However, PySchart couldn’t plot several line graphs on the same canvas yet this was very important in my application as I wanted the user to easily make comparison for the different item’s trends. Luckily, the project had been released under the GNU General Public License v2. I talked to the Caraciolo who was very kind enough to give me the necessary support to improve the line chart portion of the project.

Today, I have uploaded an improved version of the line chart API/library which allows support for different line graphs on the same canvas.

Below is a simple code snippet on how you can implement the graph in the image above.

from appuifw import *
import e32
from linechart import LineChart
 
def quit():
    print "Exit key pressed"
    app_lock.signal()
 
canvas = Canvas()
app.body = canvas
 
dataset = [[(0, 32.5),(1, 45.0), (2, 90.0)],[(0,32.7),(1,67.5),(2.0,67.3),(3,100),(4,65)]]
chart = LineChart(app.body.size,[0,5,1,0,125,25], dataset, [(255,140,0),(51,96,161),(114,171,242),(16,77,140),(250,210,125),(206,125,49)], legend=["Revenues", "Profits"], colorBack = (237,246,253), xaxislabels=["Jan","Feb","Mar","Apr","May","June"]) 
 
app.exit_key_handler = quit
app_lock = e32.Ao_lock()
app_lock.wait()

Download The Line Graph Example Here and Download The Full PySchart API Here

Hope it will be useful to someone out there and feel free to contact me in case of help or anything.

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PyS60 Presentation at the Mobile Applications Programming Workshop

Matrich — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:27:14 +0000

Yesterday, I was privileged to give a presentation about Python for Series 60 in the Mobile Applications Programming Workshop. The workshop was attended by several third year Computer Science and Information Technology students of Faculty of Computing and Information Technology.

In my session, I talked about:

Operating Systems and Programming Languages used on Smart Phones
So why then Python?
Simple comparison between PyS60 and JavaME
Which PyS60 works for you?
How to test your PyS60 Scripts
A General quick look at Python
Some PyS60 Modules and their usage

Download the presentation and code samples at the following links:

Otherwise, it was very exciting to see such enthusiastic interesting students ready to take mobile applications to another level. Thanks a lot for the incredible compliments and feedback. Feel free to drop me an email.

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Merry Christmas 2009

Matrich — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 20:40:08 +0000

Again it is that exciting time of the year when we celebrate the Birth of Jesus Christ, our Lord. To some, it is just normal KB and a holiday while to many of us, it is not just a child who is born BUT it is The Son of The Living God who is born.

While I moving in town and shopping malls, I couldn’t believe the incredible number of people moving up and down ~~oba upside down~~, doing lots of shopping, etc. to prepare for this day. Of course, this is a testimony that it’s not just a normal holiday BUT it is really the coming of special child, Jesus.

This festive season, our very own, Watoto Church, put together the Christmas message in the most simplistic way for many to understand. I must say that it was a great performance and I am certainly sure that it yielded so much fruit to the Kingdom of God and blessed a lot of us. For those who missed, you can hook yourself up with a DVD. A trailer and more details available at “The Journey“. Thanks a lot to my church leader for the great year well done and we continue to pray for more blessings and healing of the city.

As always, just like in 2007 and 2006, I pray that this Christmas brings a new aspect to your life and may Christ’s Birth make more meaning to you as He becomes or continues to be your personal Savior.

WISHING YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS