For those who are more comfortable with working with local languages especially Luganda, a great initiative of translating Mozilla Firefox into Luganda, one of Uganda’s largest spoken language was started by Translate.org.za, Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, Makerere University and Rhodes University.

In just two days, a group of around 300 students with a computing and luganda linguistics background were able to translate about 8,000 words of the Mozilla’s user interface into luganda.

You can read more about this from:

• BBC – Firefox translated into Luganda
• Tectonic – Ugandan students translate Firefox
• Translate.org.za – Kickstarting Firefox in Luganda

In case you are interested in the provision language pack for Firefox 3.0, feel free to download it from Translate.org.za.

Otherwise, thanks to all those students who participated in this and the partners who came up with this initiative. We hope to see the whole of Mozilla Firefox in Luganda.

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Finally after days, weeks, months, years etc of contemplating, post-ponding being water baptised, I was baptized this Sunday, 10th August, 2008 and this makes yet a great declaration to you, my friends and the rest of the world that I got born again. I am now a new creation and the old is all gone as 2 Corinthians 5:17 (NIV) says

17Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!

I know you might be wondering how I have reached this age and yet I claim that I was just baptized yesterday. In fact, when I called a good friend of mine yesterday to tell him about it, he was kinda shocked. Yeah! it is true and that’s why it had also taken me a long time even when I gave my life to Christ in 2001.

First and foremost, I would like to thank our church leaders at Kampala Pentecostal Church for going back to the Spiritual Basics and teaching us the foundations and fundamentals of our faith, Christianity.

Well, Water Baptism is one of the ordinances, sacraments or acts of righteousness in the Christian faith among others. Water Baptism like other ordinances was done immediately after someone had given his life to Jesus or confessed Jesus as his Lord and Savior NOT when you were a kid and then sprinkled water on you. However, water baptism in itself doesn’t take us to heaven as the only permit is being born again. So why get baptized?? There are so many reasons and among these include:

• It is biblical (Mathew 3:1-12, Acts 2:38)
• It was a common practice of the early church (Acts 2:38)
• It is an act of Obedience (Mathew 3:13-17, Philippians 2:5), etc…

Mathew 3:13-17 (NIV) says

13Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to be baptized by John. 14But John tried to deter him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?” 15Jesus replied, “Let it be so now; it is proper for us to do this to fulfill all righteousness.” Then John consented. 16As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and lighting on him. 17And a voice from heaven said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.”

So if our King, Jesus Christ, God Himself who came down on earth just in human fresh, had all the reasons not to get baptized still got baptized even when John tried to deter him. He said that it was proper to fulfill all righteousness. So what of me and you, who aren’t BUT are just saved By His Grace.

Acts 2:38 (NIV) says

38Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit….”

So if you aren’t yet born again, please repent and confess Him as your Lord and Savior AND if you are born again, you’ve got no reason not to get baptized.

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Recently as I transversed the internet, I came across two great events which will be taking place here in Kampala, Uganda. This is really good news for the developers hanging up in Uganda where you can meet and share experiences. I haven’t seen mob of such events coming up in Uganda and thank God finally we’ve got some coming over here.

One of them is Campala which is kinda similar BarCamps held in different countries and

A BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from participants…..
….Campala 2008 will be held in Kampala, Uganda on 08/29/2008 as a way to bring people interested in a variety of levels and topics, together in one place for a day of exploration, connection and enjoyment.

Another great interesting event up for grabs is facebook Developers Garage. I just recently checked out the facebook API, FBML and FBJS and I was really fascinated by the kinda apps you could build over the facebook platform. So if you are interested in facebook, not only using it but also developing apps over the facebook platform, this is a great opportunity. At the facebook developers garage, you get an

opportunity for a deep dive into Facebook Platform: it is a forum to share ideas with local developers, look for partners on your latest project, see and participate in Facebook App demonstrations, seek technical support, or just network and socialize with other developers interested in the Facebook Platform. or viral growth, tricks for testing your app, metrics for success, ninja code tricks…the usual. Pretty much anything goes.

I have already looked at the line up for Campala and I am registered for the two event. I can’t wait to see other developers from this land and most importantly, sharing experiences with others. In case you wanna see me, then we can hock up there.

So what are you waiting for? Just check out Campala and facebook Developers Garage and get yourself registered. It is freeeee!!! Believe it or not?

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Today is July 25th, 2008 and is the 9th Annual System Administrator Appreciation Day. Every last Friday of July of the year has been marked as the System Administrator Appreciation Day.

Having been partly a system administrator (sysadmin) for almost a year at my former workplace after my studies. I really know what it means to be a sysadmin for a large company and surely, for all those at work, please take sometime and say thanks to your sysadmin or give them some kinda appreciation.

To many sysadmins, everyone doesn’t see their work not until the servers or company systems are down and there is no work to be done. Everyone then starts calling and quarreling. Anywayz, there are many reasons why you should appreciate your sysadmin.

From the SysAdminDay website,

…System Administrators get no respect 364 days a year. This is the day that all fellow System Administrators across the globe, will be showered with expensive sports cars and large piles of cash in appreciation of their diligent work. But seriously, we are asking for a nice token gift and some public acknowledgement. It’s the least you could do.

Consider all the daunting tasks and long hours (weekends too.) Let’s be honest, sometimes we don’t know our System Administrators as well as they know us. Remember this is one day to recognize your System Administrator for their workplace contributions and to promote professional excellence. Thank them for all the things they do for you and your business.

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I am not so much of a fanatic of web social platform but I am kinda gaining a lot of interest in Facebook. Ofcourse, my interest isn’t in anything else rather than porting or developing facebook applications. Today, I was quite amazing how fast I could get to playing around with building a facebook application after watching the experience of Facebook | Lab Builder was built in a week. I am particularly gaining mob interest and I should be able to build a facebook application sooner than later.

However, Facebook is also bringing new changes on board including the News Feed, which appears on your homepage, and Mini-Feed, which appears in each person’s profile. More of this can be obtained at their blog.

I was particularly interested in the Facebook Redesign which I guess isn’t yet finally released to the public. Of course, this is because part of my interests lies in website design and development which I have been passionately doing for awhile to revamp Uganda’s website industry.

Looking at their redesign, I was really fascinated as it looks more clean, usable and less crowded than never before. There is a new main tabbed menu at the top and small tabs which you can customize to whatever you wish. All the applications are now in a drop down menu making it more easier to find them and also taking more control taken over to the user. The user can now determine what he wants to see in the different components.

Try it out this redesign at http://www.new.facebook.com/

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For WordPress users, fanatics and well-wishers, you got more reason to smile. WordPress 2.6. has finally been released one month ahead of the schedule date and many new more features and improvements to WordPress 2.5. have been included and it seems WordPress is growing more to the CMS side, ofcourse, it conquered the blogging engine platform.

This time round, a brief virtual tour has been compiled which is another great move and so you can have a grasp of what’s new and cooking in this new release.

Among what is featured in this release include:

• Post Revisions: which enables you to go back and forth in the different post drafts (edits) which are manually or automatically saved. You can also make comparisons between the different saved drafts and know who made which draft for posts and pages made by many authors. It is more or less like a version control system and enables you to switch between these drafts.
• Press This!: enables you to post from wherever you are on the web by adding a Press This bookmark to your toolbar that provides a fast and smart popup to do posts to your blog
• Shift Gears: For this version, it just helps to cache or keep a copy of commonly-used Javascript and CSS files on your computer to speed up the loading of some pages but WP works fine without it.
• Theme Previews: A great feature allowing you to preview the theme before making it public.
• Ability to change location of wp-config file which is a great security measure.
• Bulk management of plugins
• and more other small features and improvements like image captions, customised default avatars, word count, etc…

Great thanks to the WordPress team for their hard work. Get the download at WordPress.org and more about the new and improved features from the official release post at WordPress Development Blog.

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