As you may already know, Node Six is a leading internet solutions company. We do hosting, web design and development with a preference for community/ social sites plus a few high impact flash sites. We’ve got so many exciting things we’d like to do and not enough people.

So, we are looking for fresh young talent to fill two positions to help us bring to light our exciting new projects.

1. Web Interface Designer
   First up, we need someone with exceptional creative thinking, a passion for Ironman, Star Trek type interfaces and possibly even Picaso. You will be working on small beautiful “brochure sites” as well as large community facebook killers. So you need to be good. Really good.

   Required skills: excellence in Photoshop, HTML, CSS, Flash and good animation skills. Knowledge of Jquery/ Mootools, Joomla and 3D techniques is a definate plus.

2. Web Applications Developer
   We need Neo, “The One” someone passionate about code, some one who can make a website toast bread and feed it to you! We need you to make fancy lightboxes and ajaxy components that make people go “Whaaat?” We need some one who can look at a code problem and fix the issue while balancing a burning tadoba on your head. We need the One!

   Required skills: PHP, Javascript, CSS, HTML, Ajax, Linux, Jquery/ Mootools, Joomla, Drupal, MySQL. Knowledge of cakePHP, ruby, DOM, Hosting enviroments, Converting Photoshop psd to working sites is again, a definate plus.

We’re not rigid on experience. You only need Skill, talent, self motivation, eagerness to learn and most of all unbridled passion are more important to us than grey hairs. We care about integrity, professionalism, team work and innovation.

Interested parties send us a copy of their portfolios and resumes latest June 18th to jobs@nodesix.com.

Node Six Team

Hello World.

Just dropping by to give you a brief update about what we’re doing.

1. Design Kingdom
Design Kingdom Version 2 launched on 24th July. It’s bigger and it’s better. So far, the users really love it! We’ll continue to add tutorials, articles, featured artists and we hope that you will join the discussions, forums, and community.

2. Seacom’s Broadband
We were proud to be invited to the Seacom Media Launch. I must admit I was blown away by the speeds that we were able to get on the fibre optic cable. But there still remains a lot of work to be done before that speed gets to the end user. See my blog post on this for more information.

3. BlogSpirit v 1.5
As we mentioned earlier, we’re doing some revisions on BlogSpirit, and we’ll be launching version 1.5 on 1st September 2009. There’s still tonnes of work, but we’re excited at the progress we’re making so far.

We’ve also done a few hardware upgrades that should see significant improvement in performance on our servers.

So that’s it for now, we’ll be back real soon.

Stay cool y’all.

First off, some exciting news! The new Design Kingdom website goes live on July 24th!

We ( Node Six ) have been working feverishly behind the scenes to create a bigger and better online community for Ugandan designers to connect, share, explore and grow in skill and in passion.

So, we’re almost done with the new Design Kingdom website, but…

We need volunteers to post tutorials, articles, news, and generally share stuff. You can either submit your own tutorial, or send us a link to an excellent tutorial or article you’ve seen online.

You can contribute once a month, once a year, or a million times a week, as long as it’s design related, we will appreciate your contribution!

Our current focus is in the following areas:

• 3D Animation
• Web Design & Development
• Photography
• Flash animation
• Sound Design
• Video Editing
• Visual Effects
• 2D design & Illustration
• Hand drawn Art & Illustrations.

If you think you can take on this challenge, then we need you!

Send an email to admin@designkingdom.ug and I will hook you up with behind-the-scenes pre-launch access details and you can start posting cool design stuff.

Remember we’ll need tonnes of content before the new website goes live on July 24th.

We cannot wait!

Ok, so I’ve been waiting for a whole week for my boss/partner to write a blog of introduction for me but seeing as I just wrote something on my own blog about being proactive, I decided to do something a little out of the ordinary and write one for myself.

Allow me to introduce myself. I am Kiztio Katawonga the new Executive Director for Nodesix. If anybody wants to know what an Executive Director does, you can click here for a general description. I have over 10years experience dealing with all manner of web things, whether Web 2.0 or Web 0 and I bring a whole host of other experiences in technology and business experience to the table. You cannot be faulted for saying I know what I’m talking about. By the way, can anyone tell me what this whole “hosting” business is about?  

I’m very excited to be here at Nodesix and we have big plans to make this the leading web applications and hosting firm in Africa. A big hairy audacious goal I know and lots of pressure on me but our company belongs to The Almighty God and He’s the guy who casually creates universes and parts Red Seas when He’s on a lunch break. So we believe it can be done.

A big and warm hello and thankyou to all our loyal customers and friends with a promise that Nodesix is only going to get better, faster and more exciting in the days to come. And to the team behind NodeSix, you rock guys, to infinity and beyond!

God bless. 

Between 14:00HRS and 15:30HRS East African Time, our three servers were offline for critical security updates. Each server was off for approximately 30 minutes while the hardware nodes were rebooted after updating the servers.

Here is the notification we recieved from our server provider, which they sent out to all their clients:

From 11pm-8am CST(05:00-14:00GMT) tonight, we will be rebooting Virtuozzo hardware nodes. This is to perform a critical security update to the Virtuozzo software. Total downtime for each server is expected to be 10-30 minutes.

We do regret the short notice of this announcement. However, we feel the need to act quickly to insure the protection of your precious data. We appreciate your understanding, and apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may cause.

It’s taking a bit longer than expected, but this is what’s going on. Your server should be back up shortly, and thanks for your patience.

Please accept Node Six’s apologies for the brief time window in which your websites, blogs and services were not available, but the update was essential for the welbeing of the entire system, especially your data and services.

Thank you,

Node Six Technical Support Team

Hello good people. It’s been a while since we updated this section. Lots of stuff has been happening, and there’s lots more coming from Node Six.

First off, welcome back from the festive season, and a happy new year to you all.

For those who have stood by us through the past year, clients, friends, family, supporters, we’d like to say a big thank you. We could not have done it without your support.

Node Six is in its third year, and we’re gearing up for some fairly massive changes to the way we do things around here. Let’s just say it’s going to be one heck of a ride.

Also, our focus for this year is going to be online applications, and especially flash based rich internet applications. To start that off, we’ll be releasing BlogSpirit version 2 for beta testing around mid this month. It’s looking pretty different from the current Node Six BlogSpirit.

As usual, the core engine is an open source tool that we’re modifying and customising to be more functional, feature rich and intuitive.

As for the rest of the applications, we plan to roll out/extend six major web applications, some of which are actually already being used. One of those products will change the way Ugandans use a certain aspect of the internet.

We can only hold our breath, and hope that you will love the products as much as we do.

We had a brief service interruption between 9:45 AM and 10:40 AM, East African Time.

The affected server was SENTINEL.NODESIX.NET.

There was an issue with the switch that powers the network for the
hardware node that our SENTINEL server is on.

A few of our websites were not accessible for the duration
of the outage (slightly under one hour).

Our server provider’s network engineers replaced the switch
and the SENTINEL server is back on now.

Please accept our sincerest apologies for any inconveniences caused.

The Node Six Technical Support Team.

We were recently contacted by Jonathan Gosier of Appfrica about doing a small interview for the Appfrica Blog. It was mostly a Q&A thing via email, but allowed me, for once, to properly articulate the stuff we’re doing and why we’re doing it.

Here’s the link to the interview;

http://appfrica.net/blog/archives/610

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About Appfrica

Appfrica.org facilitates, mentors and incubates entrepreneurs in software in East Africa and Uganda. The goal is to offer a physical space with a solid internet connection, servers, software and computers that will allow students and recent graduates a place to develop their ideas in a constructive environment with industry professionals outside of school.

The blog at Appfrica.net is web portal for the latest news related to African web development, social media, innovation, education and entrepreneurship in other areas of technology.

Introducing xMail Beta, get FREE email hosting from Node Six, all you have to do is pay for only your domain name!

xMail Beta is currently a promotional product from Node Six, and is open for limited beta registrations, we have a very limited number of hosting accounts we’re giving out free, so book your domain today!

For more information, head over to our website.

BlogSpirit reaches 100 Blogs!

Wow! We’ve actually hit 100 blogs on Node Six BlogSpirit! There’s something we’re working that was supposed to be ready by the time we reached 100 blogs, but then I didn’t expect it to be so soon.

Anyhow, we’re still working and we’ll be releasing it soon. Kudos to all the people tirelessly working to make it a success.

Design Kingdom goes live

Some might have seen the Design Kingdom demo, and tried it out, but it still needed some work. To do an early launch, we’ve revised layouts and content a little bit, to allow for people to use the site in the meantime. So without further ado, I give you the Design Kingdom!

If you are a designer, feel free to check it out!

PS, the rate at which Design Kingdom is updated might flood BlogSpirit, but please bear with us.