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A Night Of #Hackfest With BetterWorks

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Some used Java, Ruby, jQuery while others used PHP, HTML, and CSS. Quick Web App Builder (QWAB) – parts prebuilt before competition. The coolest part about these products was that most of the were live working demos. Development languages varied from team to team. Teams: CoderTie. Where is my Shit? Better Goals.

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Mimiboard Replacing Noticeboards in Africa | Interview with Johan Nel Founder

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The Mimiboard beat ten other apps from Africa to be the best at the App demo competition held at the Nairobi Open Innovation Summit in May. People can now add notes to the board – using Twitter, SMS, Rich web, WAP, Android and Java supported devices. Then you assign certain categories to it.

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Twiistup 007: Final Showoff's Additional Speakers and TZ Discount

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The final showoff's have been selected, so that brings the count to a total of 10 showoff's plus a wild card from the demo night at UCLA (full list of showoff's below). He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming(Waite Group Press, 1996). He is a frequent public speaker. Alex Quilici.