We are pleased to announce that we now offer our courses at Knowledge7 on a flexible mode:

• on your own schedule depending on the availability of your team
• run either within your company or at our premises in Quatre-Bornes
• with customised course content to meet your own requirements

Knowledge7 offers a wide range of MQA-approved training courses in different areas: Communication in French, Digital Marketing, Mobile Development, Web Development and Linux System Administration.

Do not hesitate to share this exciting new offer with your colleagues.

Email us at or call us on 5834-9001 if you need more information.

To help you boost your business as well as increase the efficiency and productivity of your staff, we are offering a number of MQA-approved training courses in various fields in the coming months:

Techniques de Communication Ecrite pour l’Entreprise : Write reports, minutes of meetings, letters and emails in business French and master French for better communication. This training is designed for administrative and managerial staff who need to deal with French speaking partners and clients. Will be run on demand.

Search Engine Optimisation : Every business needs to be online and easily discoverable through search engines. Boost traffic to your website using white hat Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) techniques such as streamlining the information architecture, using keywords, link building, etc. Starting on Monday 1 April 2013.

Linux Network Services and Security : Use Linux servers to deploy network services such as DNS, DHCP, Web (Apache), Email, NFS and Samba. This training is designed for system administrators who are already familiar with Linux and who need to master advanced techniques as per industry best practices. Starting on Tuesday 23 april 2013.

Web Design with HTML and CSS : Master the latest web standards such as HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript to create beautiful and responsive websites. Make sure that web designs you create are properly displayed on computers and on mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. Starting on Thursday 28 March 2013.

Web Application Development (using PHP and MySQL) : Create powerful and easy-to-maintain web applications using the latest advances in PHP including sanitisation, validation, templating engines, etc. Increase the performance of your web apps by benchmarking, profiling and optimising MySQL. Starting on Wednesday 20 March 2013. A second batch will start on Wednesday 24 April 2013.

Send us your bookings early to facilitate your HRDC formalities. We look forward to welcome you and your colleagues at Knowledge7.

Please share with your friends and colleagues.

Knowledge7 has the pleasure to invite you to a seminar on how to drive business forward using social networks, mobile & cloud technologies. Join us for FREE on Friday 18 January 2013 from 09:00 to 12:00 at Burrenchobay Hall, University of Mauritius.

The speakers are:

• Avinash Meetoo, Managing Director of Knowledge7 on Driving business forward with Mobile & Cloud Technologies
• Jean Marc Desvaux, Head of Information Systems at General Construction on Driving business forward with Enterprise Application Frameworks
• Darshana Seetah, Trainer/Developer at Knowledge7 on Driving business forward with Social Networks & Digital Marketing

Please register online by Monday 14 January to secure your seat.

Do not hesitate to share with your friends and colleagues.

“The fundamental problem is that many products are created to be sold, not used.”  — Sori Yanagi

This is something that we have come to realise over the years. A lot of sellers are only happy to sell, they don’t really care about how you are going to use the products. For this reason, I’ve been telling people that we do not sell training courses at Knowledge7. We make people more skillful so that they can have a more productive and happy life.

Since launching Android Mauritius, we have also realised that quite a lot of people buy smartphones and tablets because, well, marketers have a lot of persuasion power. Unfortunately, quite a lot of those buyers find it difficult to use their new devices and this is why we are keen to try something : we are proposing a 2 hour training course on how to become a power user of your Android smartphone or tablet.

Call us on 5834-9001 if you are interested. Feel free to share with your friends and family.

Knowledge7, in collaboration with Mozilla, invites you to a presentation of Web Maker, a set of tools to make something amazing with the web. The goal: help millions of people move from using the web only to making things on the web.

The hands-on presentation will be done by Olivier Yip Tong of Mozilla at Knowledge7 in Quatre-Bornes this Thursday 20 December from 10:00 to 12:00. This will be a great opportunity to join a global community of creators: educators, filmmakers, journalists, developers, youth, all making and learning together.

Admission is free. As seats are limited, kindly contact Liliane Chan on 5834-9001 or by email to reserve your place by Wednesday morning at latest.

Avinash Meetoo, Managing-Director of Knowledge7, announces on national radio that students will benefit from 50% discount for all our mobile development training courses until January 2013. Christmas has started at Knowledge7.

This includes our Mobile Application Development with HTML5 and our Android Application Development training courses. Feel free to call us on 5834-9001!

[Recorded during Le Club du Midi animated by Miguel Hermelin at Radio One]

Good news for students!

We still have places left for our Linux System Administration training starting this Saturday 20 October from 9:00 to 12:00.

We are happy to announce that students with valid student IDs get 50% off the normal price for this session!

If you are interested in becoming a Linux professional, give Liliane a ring on 5834-9001 now!

Congratulations! Your child has just obtained his HSC results and you are proud that he (or she) has worked really well. Having decided to embrace a career in IT, he will start university shortly to study Computer Science.

As you want your child to have a head start in his studies, why not tell your child to learn programming?

At Knowledge7, we offer quality training courses which will give your child the knowledge and skills needed to excel at university level.

We will shortly run an Object-Oriented Programming in Java training starting on 20 March. During this training, your child will master the Java programming language, a platform used by most of the largest companies on the planet and which powers hundred of millions of mobile devices.

After this Java training, we will run an Android Application Development training course as from 8 May. During this training, your child will use his newly acquired knowledge of Java to develop Android applications as used in the latest smartphones and tablets from companies such as Samsung, Sony-Ericsson, LG, HTC, etc.

The training will finish on 5 June 2012, just in time for your child to join university and start his Computer Science classes.

We have trained people from major companies in Mauritius in the past and we are happy that the trainees left us very positive testimonials.

Do not hesitate to contact us if you need any clarification.

You have your HSC results and you are looking forward to join university for further studies. As you want a career in IT, you have chosen to study Computer Science.

Get a head start and make things simpler later. Learn Java with us, a platform used by most of the largest companies on the planet and which powers millions of mobile devices, including 200 million Android smartphones and tablets. Join our Object-Oriented Programming in Java training course starting on 20 March.

With your new Java skills, you can then follow our Android Application Development training course.

There is a lot of debate among mobile developers about whether to go native when building mobile apps or to use HTML5. The latter is particular attractive as the single codebase approach – write once, run everywhere – often implies reduced development costs. Developers can use their existing HTML5/CSS3/JS skills to build applications which can be repackaged easily for different platforms – iOS, Android and others – using tools such as PhoneGap/Cordova. These tools also have a set of plugins which allows developers to use hardware features such as battery, camera and GPS among others.

On the otherhand, a major advantage of native apps is that they are more visually appealing and offer a better user experience when compared to the interface of a cross-platform application build with HTML5.

But is there a way around? I think so.

jQuery Mobile is a framework for developing HTML5-based user interfaces for smartphones and tablets. As it is multi-platform, web applications built with jQuery Mobile, look and feel the same whether one is using Android or IOS devices. The framework also supports Blackberry, Windows Phone, Symbian, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXRuotrRUfc

This is the framework that trainees are going to use, together with Cordova, during our next Mobile Application Development in HTML5 training. For some time I was wondering whether it would have been better to write all HTML5 code “manually” and, finally, I realised that jQuery Mobile saves a lot of time and has a formidable set of widgets and behaviours which would be difficult to replicate “manually”.

Anyone of you using jQuery Mobile at this moment? What do you think of it?