Nelson Oranga, Author at E-Startups Kenya

DISPLAYING CAMERA OUTPUT TO FULL SCREEN IN WINDOWS PHONE

Sometimes we might need to display the camera output as full screen on our windows phone but due to the difference between aspect ratio of the camera output and the phone screen, this poses as a slight challenge. The first problem is that the mapped camera output is rotated vertically. The second problem is the […]

June 26, 2024
By Nelson Oranga
Cloud solutions, Cybersecurity Solutions

PACKT PUBLISHING EBOOK OFFER FOR CHRISTMAS

Packt publishing currently has a promotion of reducing the prices of books to $5 USD if a purchase of 2 or more is made. Books such as a Computer Vision cookbook, costing $22 USD, will be on sale for $5, good deal IMO. This company offers books that tries to keep up with the latest […]

TEST WINDOWS MOBILE DEVICE AGAINST LOCALHOST WEBSERVICE

Technical Level: Intermediate Problem: To test the emulation of Windows Mobile against a web service hosted in localhost has been a problem for many developers. I have yet to find an official method of using the device emulator in visual studio to connect to a localhost web service. The problem occurs because if you add […]

THINGS LEARNT AT START-UP WEEKEND LONDON UNITED KINGDOM 2013

I attended the first start-up weekend London event with the intention of gaining some experience and learning things from the vast knowledge base provided by the awesome coaches at the event. The weekend is a 54 hour event, starting from a Friday evening to Sunday evening attended by entrepreneurs from various backgrounds such as designers, […]

June 26, 2024
By Nelson Oranga
Cloud solutions

SETTING UP RELEASE MANAGEMENT IN AZURE VIRTUAL MACHINE

This is a walk through in setting up Release Management tool in a windows azure virtual machine and then connecting to it from an off-site machine. Tools required Release Management Server Release Management Client Windows Azure Virtual Server Setup Configure RM Server Remote to your server, download and install the Release Management Server. The identity […]

GENERATING SILVERLIGHT WCF PROXY CLASS MANUALLY

Technical Level: Intermediate Problem: For some developers, when using visual studio’s built in service reference proxy generator tool gives an error when generating the client code. This is when I try to add a service reference in the solution explorer of visual studio. Usually it would say “Not support relative URI” when it reaches the […]

SILVERLIGHT/WPF – BINDING OBJECT PROPERTIES TO MULTIPLE ELEMENTS

Silverlight/WPF – Binding Object Properties to Multiple Elements In the realm of Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), data binding is a powerful feature that facilitates a seamless interaction between the UI and the underlying data model. One common requirement is to bind a single object’s properties to multiple UI elements. This not only ensures […]

June 26, 2024
By Nelson Oranga
Cloud solutions

BLUE-GREEN DEPLOYMENTS WITH OCTOPUS DEPLOY AND AZURE WEBSITES FROM TFS

This article aim to explain how we can use Octopus Deploy to Automate Deployments to Azure Websites with a single deployment agent (tentacle) using the Blue-Green deployment pattern. Blue-Green deployments allow us to deploy web applications that require warm up time without any down times. This require running 2 instances of production grade environments such as a […]

CAR PARTS SUPPLIER WEBSITE DEVELOPMENT USING HPI & TECDOC

The Challenge The client had been using a dated version of OpenCart and relied on Autoline ERP to maintain their offline sales channels. As per local business norms the clients would offer a price to buy items, client’s administrators would then either accept the price or issue a counter offer to the customer. This process […]

GETTING STARTED WITH RAKE ON .NET AND VISUAL STUDIO

Getting Started with Rake on .NET and Visual Studio Rake is a build automation tool, written in Ruby, that provides a simple way to automate tasks such as building, testing, and deploying applications. While Rake is traditionally associated with Ruby projects, it can also be used in .NET projects to streamline repetitive tasks. In this […]