The Go Programming Language

Go The programming language

It seems Google is doing everything under this sun. From search engine, mobile OS, browser, and other several products, now its the Go programming language. I can’t wait to see them reveal a teleport system, that way I don’t have to ride about 218km to get to the Western region.

Go is a system programming language  like C and C++ but with new features and eliminations of the short comings of C and C++.  Go is designed to be extremely fast and avoids some of the complexities in writing software( like C is :-) ). Its an open source project aiming to have a community to contribute to make it even more powerful.

It is optimized for massive scaling and for multi-core processors that handle many tasks in parallel. It has a strong focus on object oriented principles. The project looks bright. However, Francis McCabe who has been working on a programming language also called Go is seriously begging Google to change the name of their programming language Go. I wonder how such a big company couldn’t do their homework well.

Menace of E-Waste

Source of video: Frontline World

After watching the video, it kept me thinking how on earth could we( Ghanaians ) create an attractive market for these wastes. We are to be largely blamed for this. We tend to like these garbages a.k.a "home use"  from the west. You should see people lined up in long queues just to pick the best out of these bazillion wastes. 

If there are policies out there to make importation of these wastes unattractive, I don't think any importer will give a look at these. Hence no or little of them will come in.

 If you watched the video to the fullest, its horrifying how these young men extract sensitive data from the dumped HDD. The best way of disposing these HDDs is to crash them if you ask me. 

 Anyhow, if you have any comment, feel free to pass it.

The African Network for Localization( ANLoc )

The internet is a hub of information but it saddens me that is not a hub of information when it comes to African localized content. Searching for content developed 100% in an African language is a very scarce piece of craft to come by. Hardly do you see software or websites entirely translated into an African language.

Why ?, all because there are no tools, terminologies and so on to aid in writing in an African language. If you take a language like Ga, it has certain characters( Ɛ,Ɔ,Ŋ ) which isn’t available with most keyboards. How are you expected to write in Ga?

This is where ANLoc is focusing on to improve. ANLoc is a group made up of serveral organizations that have partnered to address the issue with localization by creating locales and also building tools, terminologies, standards,  etc, to aid in localization.

Please help spread the word about ANLoc. They are doing a fantastic work yet they are in the darkness. Much people don’t know about their work and efforts. Feel free to blog or mention them in your articles or blog post to spread the word.

Why Flickr Not Picasaweb

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Picasaweb is a photo sharing service provided by Google with so many features, like tagging, unlimited albums, photo manager, location tagging, commenting, public API, just to mention a few. Flickr on the other hand is also a photo sharing service provided by Yahoo. It has similar features just like Picasaweb, just that, it’s free account is not friendly like that of Picasaweb that offers unlimited albums and upload times with upgradable space of 1GB. Flickr’s free account restricts to showing only the most recent 200 photos, it is limited to only 3 sets ( its called album in Picasaweb lingo ), uploads are limited to 100MB per mont and other unfriendly nature of it.

With all these friendliness Picasaweb provide, I wonder why people tend to you use Flickr more than Picasaweb especially when it comes to free account of both services.

I’m asking a little favour from my readers, why do you use Flickr over Picasaweb, share by posting a comment.