Hi guys i first came across the the term software archaeology while listening to a podcast by dave thomas of the pragmatic programmers on software engineering radio. it basically involves the digging, reading and research of legacy code that was either written by you or some other programmer of which the aim is to discover and extract useful code artifacts (i.e algorithms) that can be used in new and future applications. Software archaeology can be tedious and time consuming as well especially if u are working with a large code base but it can also pay huge dividends if done properly. It allows u to as a programmer to develop your personal algorithms library which is a very useful asset to have because no matter how good a programmer u are u will always be faced with complex software requirements of which u might not have a clue how to go about implementing.

Good, idea but most Nigerians program individually, while organisation have there code secure from any third party although with time we will get there. besides NCS(Nigeria Computer Society) is looking for those with paper certificate instead of the code rock star