Anyone noticed that dates in 2024 are now available

Abi na system error

zowabia2024:
We all know who Dangote is

He was the richest man in Africa for a bit, till just last month.

But is he set to become even biggest.

We also know he has a refinery that just started production



Before this, he was the largest producer of cement

As you know although cement is used daily in most building project, the volume used does not amount to what the refinery will chew out in a few months.

And to add a windfall to this.

Nigeria's biggest producer pf petroleum is actually going to buying from him as against producing for themselves.






With all this good news for Dangote corp.

Where do you see his net work growing to?

Do you believe he is set to take over again as "Africa's Richest Man"

make in be the richest man fa

Make fuel just de make we buy am.

Hello Please note that the receptionist role has been filled.

As to the above question, the previous receptionist left for a united nations related course

For cyber security

You will need the below,

Got these links off a friend who started his journey to CS years back

Begin here
https://www.netsecfocus.com/oscp/review/2019/01/29/An_Adventure_to_Try_Harder_Tjnulls_OSCP_Journey.html


Guide to pen testing
https://www.netsecfocus.com/oscp/2021/05/06/The_Journey_to_Try_Harder-_TJnull-s_Preparation_Guide_for_PEN-200_PWK_OSCP_2.0.html

Check here as well
https://www.abatchy.com/2017/03/how-to-prepare-for-pwkoscp-noob

The 2nd most important resource that I used to help me prepare for the course: https://www.offensive-security.com/documentation/penetration-testing-with-kali.pdf



Course pen testing
https://academy.tcm-sec.com/p/practical-ethical-hacking-the-complete-course

Full details
https://www.reddit.com/r/oscp/comments/ra19vl/comment/hngsru4/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=2


First checkout this Guide/Review

The Journey to Try Harder: TJnull’s Preparation Guide for PEN-200 PWK/OSCP 2.0

https://www.netsecfocus.com/oscp/2021/05/06/The_Journey_to_Try_Harder-_TJnull-s_Preparation_Guide_for_PEN-200_PWK_OSCP_2.0.html

Then

Here are some hacking courses that are cheap and you can do that will take you from zero to hero!

The courses are in order I'd do and then I included hacking labs and their prices!

TryHackMe is a much more friendly intro lab then could move to HTB.

Note: If you follow The Cyber Mentor and Tib3rius on Twitter they post discount codes for their courses all the time, some are just pinned on their Twitter profile.

The Cyber Mentor - Ethical Hacking - https://academy.tcm-sec.com/p/practical-ethical-hacking-the-complete-course (I know you have it but learning the Basics is Key in hacking)

Tib3rius - Windows Privilege Escalation for OSCP & Beyond! - https://www.udemy.com/course/windows-privilege-escalation/

The Cyber Mentor - Windows Privilege Escalation for Beginners - https://academy.tcm-sec.com/p/windows-privilege-escalation-for-beginners

Tib3rius - Linux Privilege Escalation for OSCP & Beyond! - https://www.udemy.com/course/linux-privilege-escalation/

The Cyber Mentor - Linux Privilege Escalation for Beginners - https://academy.tcm-sec.com/p/linux-privilege-escalation

Then do some Hacking Labs - Here are some Options

TryHackMe (THM) - $10/M - https://tryhackme.com/

HackTheBox (HTB) - $20/M - https://www.hackthebox.eu/

VulnHub - $Free - https://www.vulnhub.com/

Virtual Hacking Labs (VHL) - $99/M - https://www.virtualhackinglabs.com/

Proving Grounds (PG) - $20/M - https://www.offensive-security.com/labs/individual/

List of Boxes to Hit

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dwSMIAPIam0PuRBkCiDI88pU3yzrqqHkDtBngUHNCw8/edit?usp=drivesdk

Not updated to reflect the new AD changes, still updating my template after this change, cyber mentors AD section in his course should give you the basics



Learn Linux
https://linuxjourney.com/

Omo mongodb and nodejs issues.

Currently building a patient management system with using nodejs.

mongodb gave me issues to initially setup locally as I got tired of using the cloud option as I had to reenable the IP after 6 hours

In which case I didn't give myself a log message or console.log error handling message that I should always check mongodb cloud to ensure it's work.

This leading to a two day error check and trouble shooting rabbit hole, wondering what the error is and check codes from route folder and my controller folders.

Till I got tired and chucked the codes file in Claude AI and got the reply

"It seems your mongodb connection is offline"

You can imagine the level of my face palming at that time.

Seriously nodejs can be scary annoying sometimes.

One minute your terminal tells you server is running, the next due to one comma error or something so obscure, you run node server.js and na error error error nah your name

Still it's fun

Hey there

There once was a group on telegram

But don't believe there is any on Whatsapp for now.

To help I just created one, hopefully it grows

https:///E65RLe8FAjKFGyNqMjq0WR

VACANCY

An Orthopaedic and Rehabilitation firm Headquartered in Lagos and with a branch at *Mariere Memorial Central Hospital* (formerly Ughelli Central Hospital) with expertise in Prosthetics, Orthotics and full service rehabilitation seeks to employ the following roles.

Role 1
Physiotherapist, Physical Therapist, Occupational Therapist
Location: Delta State
Interview Location: Lagos

Job description

Provide Physiotherapeutic care to patients within the facility, including those using (or will use) Prosthetics/Orthotics, stroke patients and other assisted-rehabilitation needs.

Meet the patients' goals and needs and provide quality care by assessing and interpreting evaluations and results; determining physical therapy treatment plans through independent judgement and in consultation with physicians or by prescription.

Help patients accomplish treatment plan and accept therapeutic devices by administering manual exercises; instructing, encouraging, and assisting patients in performing physical activities, such as exercises, ambulatory functional activities, and daily-living activities and in using assistive and supportive devices, such as crutches, canes, and prostheses.

Communicate and coordinate with patients’ physicians and caregivers to ensure a consistent level of care

Administer physical therapy treatments through exercise prescription and the use of thermal and electro-therapeutic modalities.

Skill set

Must be organised

Pay attention to details

Smart and articulate

Team player

People skills

Empathy


Qualifications

Candidates must possess a Bachelor degree in Physiotherapy or Medical Rehabilitation

Registration with the Medical Rehabilitation Therapists (Registration) Board of Nigeria (MRTBN) is a plus.

Candidates must have a Current Practicing license.

Should have 1-2 years experience

Must reside in Delta State, preference would be given to those residing within Ughelli and its environs


Important
Send your resume and cover letter with the role you are applying for as subject of the mail to the address or email below

Please note
Mail sent without role and cover letter will not be attended to

IfeanHealth Nigeria
5-7 Asa Afariogun Street
Off Osolo way
Ajao estate
info@ifeanhealth.com

Ok, all of you way drop number

Oya report

How many una done write?
How much una don make?

Rather

How much e tell una to pay?

So as my way of giving back to the community, i will be dropping some of the courses i have access to from some programming websites. hope this helps someome getting started or someone who needs an update.

Now i will be dropping them via either onedrive links or via google drive links.

I will try to drop one or more per day.

If there is a topic you would want a course on then let me know below.

Google-Cloud-Platform: Associate Cloud Engineer

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_lFFxPolo8cZhaO2ULA87Tk9PyobCWtk/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NktToMHaQv1Pqtn8QiJ5y_TUU2hnpm76/view?usp=sharing


Google-Cloud-Certified: Associate-Cloud-Engineer-Study-Guide

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1U128NHBG4kb6aenuQad3IVdaGggiEMaS/view?usp=sharing


How to unzip the

Download winra on your pc or phone.

Select the files all files with a part 1,2, 3 at the end before the file type.

right click and select unzip to folder with winra

Wow, nairaland

You all are impressive.

Over 200 comment, sympathy and insults.

But not one came with an offer to donate to this young father that most likely can not do his job again and possibly not take care of his family.

Guy come on we can do better.

i am willing to contribute to help this guy and believe me guys its quite simple.

If we can get each of the two hundred posters to drop 1k, that nah 200k.

And i know say una big pass 1k nah.

So i suggest we donate and develop a fund for these cases.

I am willing to give between 1-5k if others are willing too do same, haba even 500 naira donations from those who can't do 1k will goa long way.

What do you say nairaland, we can have the mod or Seyi himself provide us with a donate button and we can make the donation or we can use risevest or piggyvest to create a contribution group.

So i have be using chatgpt to speed up my learning phase

And i must say it has really been a big help to me, particular on code corrections, streamlining and more importantily.

Not having to spend days on stackoverflow or googling looking for an answer.

At present i used it and meta.ai to speed up my learning in Javascript

Particularly for dom manipulations, local storage and currently using async await and promises.

To give you an idea

I will be sharing some of the gpt's i used to speed up my learning.

Please feel free to share any prompt edits or changes you made to it

Javascript functions basic
https://chatgpt.com/share/5cb5a680-9df0-4185-b45c-a04b2b964887

Code Logic- How to problem solve like a programmer
https://chatgpt.com/share/0212d064-50e5-479d-8115-c95de63d49eb

DOM Manipulation
https://chatgpt.com/share/1ceccf64-ca53-405f-b5eb-e7cea534156f

Json basics
https://www.meta.ai/c/ee50ed99-aff8-4579-8038-80e9f5eb1da2

Javascript Research
https://chatgpt.com/share/44d54ab6-5a23-46bf-928f-471df2097600

Ok That was fun

Still Here are the revised notes so you test your hand at Javascript OOP

https://chatgpt.com/share/541a4cd8-5e92-4416-ad01-551774c71e27

Save it on your Chatgpt profile and continue the training.

The future of tech jobs being in trouble because of AI.

Bro, its just another tool to get the job done.

Remember it works on what its feed, so if no one feeds it, it doesn't work, if not feed well, it doesn't work well.

Also

It isn't producing anything new, it only produces what already exists( data already available online), it hits a brick wall on programming a totally new or novel concept or idea.

That is why, right now new scholars are actually calling it a VI(Virtual intelligence) not an AI, (true AI's can become sentient and think for themselves and develop new concepts strategies and thinking.). previously only a few companies were working on true AI's (Google deep brain etc).

Now with Nvidia, most are now trying to create a true AI, one that you that has the energy and computing capacity to answer impossible question like

How do we solve world hunger

Using today's technologies, how do we clean up our atmosphere of carbon polutants,

Whats the true meaning of life, explain it scientifically with the proper theorms to allow us replicate it now

What steps are required to develop miniture quantum computer and give us a step by step to get it done now and to develop the minerals required and the infrastructure required in 3months

How can one change Nigeria economy and politics to become much more better in 6 months, provide an actionable step by step that doesn't involve violence.

Only a true AI can answer the above question, and for it to answer them it need a large supply of energy (Planet size or Dyson sphere level) and computing power, which we currently do not have available right now

But always remember its just a tool.

Now to the forbes thing that it would replace programmers.

There is an actually reason why companies and letting go of programmers in bulk.

Ai is on of the subtle reason but not the main one.

If you ever noticed, the west(US, canada and a bit of the uk), has been the biggest employers of tech staff.
Why?.

Because their governments gave incentives for it.

Did you know that per 2024, all costs involved in R & D for us companies, were not expensed.

What does this mean, it means if you hire a bunch of developers and put their jobs under Research and development(which is actually what most companies did).

You would not be charged or Expensed by the IRS for their salaries.

The below article explains it best

Will US companies hire fewer engineers due to Section 174?
https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/section-174/#:~:text=Assuming%20Section%20174%20stays%20and,in%20the%20US%2Fmore%20layoffs.

Thus where you as a company were incentivized to have a large team of developers, that incentive is gone, thus you need to cut back on the numbers.

thus the massive cuts, as companies were using this to save themselves a ton of taxable income, as the more developers you have on R and D the less tax as a company you pay.

That bubble burst in 2023, thus leading to the massive layoff in the US.

Not that these application tracking softwares are used by a lot of companies in the west.

They work on setting up keywords that employer is looking for.

Example

School
Experience
Previous roles
Type of activities at previous jobs.

In essence those things a typical hr person does before to check each cv for what they want.

Now instead of a person

AI does it

Making the resume screening process faster,

They can screen 10k resumes in 20minutes.


It's an advantage to them, but as always there are ways around this.

Multiple resumes with different increased or reduced roles or experience or location difference or work experience.

Even multiple CVS with name rotations
I.e if your name is John Brown Smith

You apply the first time as John Brown Smith

You can your next application as Brown John Smith and send another with Smith B John (multiple emails). You get the idea.

There is always a work around

digitaccountant:
We’re seeing a wave of new generative AI tools that can write text, generate images, create music and more. Some can even write computer code, which makes sense when you think that computer code is just another type of language. From a well-known, generic tool like ChatGPT to specific AI coding tools created for developers, new tools are rapidly emerging that offer code suggestions and even write entire code. And it can all be done based on natural language prompts or by learning from existing code.

Naturally, this is already changing the work that software developers do. But what are the long-term implications of this? Will we even need software developers in the future? Read on to find out.

What Can Generative AI Do?
Generative AI can accelerate and automate the software development process in several ways:

Gathering requirements: [/b]All software development starts by identifying requirements (such as “user wants to do X, Y and Z”). Generative AI can aid this process by generating a list of requirements. It can also be used to review requirements and check that nothing has been missed.

[b]Generating code: [/b]Generative AI can turn natural language instructions into functioning code, which essentially turns English (or whatever your native tongue is) into a computer programming language.

[b]Completing code: As coders type, a generative AI tool can suggest code completions, which saves coders time, especially when working on repetitive or mundane tasks. As an added advantage, this can help to reduce human error.

Reviewing code: Generative AI can also be a useful tool when it comes to reviewing software. For example, a generative AI tool can check through existing code and suggest improvements or create alternatives that are more efficient. It can also analyze code according to coding style guidelines to ensure code is consistent.

Fixing bugs: [/b]Generative AI can be used to identify and fix bugs in code to create a better end product.

[b]Testing software: Generative AI can carry out many of the testing phases, such as generating test cases, generating test code and analyzing test results.

Predicting how software might fail: Looking ahead, generative AI may also be able to predict how systems and software might fail before the code goes into production—and tell developers how to fix it.

All of which means that generative AI can aid the work of coders, programmers and developers and speed up the software development process. In one example, coders at software company Freshworks have been using ChatGPT to write code—and, in the process, cut the development time from around 10 weeks down to less than a week. According to a GitHub study, developers who used the GitHub Copilot generative AI tool coded up to 55% faster than those who didn’t.

But how good is generative AI at creating computer code? Well, when the Alphabet-owned DeepMind lab pitted its AlphaCode AI model in competition against human coders, AlphaCode’s performance roughly corresponded to “a novice programmer with a few months to a year of training.” It's not bad at all for an AI. Given that generative AI’s capabilities are progressing so fast, we can expect the technology to catch up with more experienced developers in the not-so-distant future.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2024/06/07/generative-ai-can-write-computer-codewill-we-still-need-software-developers/

If you have ever tried to use Chatgpt or Meta ai to write code for you

You will quickly understand that it's not all that.

Don't get me wrong, it's helpful.

But it is also prone to errors, a lot of errors

For someone who doesn't know much about programming and writing a language, it may look amazing

But if you know a little 1 or 2, you will quickly see that sometimes it's prone to give codes with errors

Worst is when you ask for cod e and try to run it, and you get errors. You submit the error log to it and it gives you a better code, you run it and hey, more errors.

Happens a lot

So i starting learning how to code pretty late.

Started with with classes and proceed to tutorial on YouTube and other platforms.

I started hitting a wall of late as after watching and practicing multiple tutorial.

While I try to write my own code or develop something, I would hit a brick wall(The blank screen).

Seeming stuck there asking myself, but I just completed multiple tutorial on this, why can I not write my own code.

This took a lot of searching for me till someone broke it down for me.

Monkey see, Monkey do.

Online tutorials, YouTube tutorial, Udemy, Cousera, Free code academy.

They all work on sSo i starting learning how to code pretty late.

Started with with classes and proceed to tutorial on YouTube and other platforms.

I started hitting a wall of late as after watching and practicing multiple tutorial.

While I try to write my own code or develop something, I would hit a brick wall(The blank screen).

Seeming stuck there asking myself, but I just completed multiple tutorial on this, why can I not write my own code.

This took a lot of searching for me till someone broke it down for me.

Monkey see, Monkey do.

Online tutorials, YouTube tutorial, Udemy, Cousera, Free code academy.

They all work on a simple yet addictive principle

Monkey See, Monkey do.

Because we are watching someone code something complex and following along to write what they write.

We get the decided feeling that we are actually learning to code or programme.

When in actual sense, once the tutorial stops and the video ends and we complete that code.

The truth come, as once we open a black page on notepad, notepad++, vs code. We are unable to write one or two lines of the tutorial we just watched.

Alot of beginners like myself, that I have met, face the same challenge.

I really had to take a step back and ask what was the problem

Then it hit me.

We are trying to learn how to code, without trying to learn first how to problem solve.


That I found was the biggest challenge.

Let me put it this way.

When you write code in any language, do you

A.Just dive in and start writing
B.First try to understand what you want to code for.

Most would answer A.

I would answer A, But now I understand that you need to start with B first before you get to A.

Why is this important.

Because almost every work place for programmers demand you know how to do B first Before A

Most technical interview watch for B first before A

Thus B(the problem solving to understand what you need to code for is far more important than coding first).

So

How does one learn how to do B first.

You need to understand that B can be hard to learn, infact for most beginners B is harder than A,

From the onset you have been learning how to do A,

Everything tutorial you have watched and practiced has made it look like A(learning to Code and writing code) is far more important.

No where online has any of the tutorials mentioned the need to learn B. And most tutorial on programming don't show you how to do B.

Reason.

It's not something that can be taught following the Monkey See, Monkey Do method.

You have to develop your own way of doing it.

But once you learn how to do it, and keep doing it.

It makes you code writing, learning and retention abilities much better and faster.

So how do you learn it?

privaldo:
Hi all, I've been looking for remote IT Support roles. However, all the open roles I've come across seem to only hire from within the US/UK/Canada. I've interviewed for three different roles but received rejection emails for all three. One mentioned that I was a good fit for the role but my location was an issue. If you've successfully landed a remote support role, could you please share your experience and any advice you may have?

Sidenote: I'm currently taking the Google IT Support professional certification and as well preparing for my CCNA and Comptia+ exams.

I can understand your frustration in searching for remote jobs in US,UK,Canada.

Take it from someone who has been at it since november, its not easy even when you are qualified.

And you are right most of these guys look for these positions within their location

I was speaking to a recruiter sometime back and he told me certains things about these jobs and why most people not within the US UK or Canada can will not easily get jobs.

1. Your location: If you are within the location of the job posts UK, US, Cananda, your chances you will get called for an interview goes up by 40-50%, if you are not your chances go down by 40-50%.

One thing he said was, you can be an idiot within those locations, but as long as you are applying for a tech position even with little skill, you will most likely be called for an interview(passing the interview is another matter though).

2. Documentation: Having the right documentation gives you another 20% chance you will be selected for the interview and you will see a lot of private chats for an interview.

By documentation, i do not mean your resume, cv or certificates. I mean your eligibility to work (Citizen or work permit) in these country where the position is located.

I got asked this question a lot and most interviews were termiated immediately i could not provide copies of the document( Note: don't be scammer-if you fake the documentation they will run it through their system to verify, even if they do not, they will run a background check later as you advance in the interview stage).

3. Your experience level: usually an experience level of 4-10 years of experience will increase your chances by another 10-15%, but if you like put 20 years, without the other two, nothing for you.

4. Someone from Asia has a higher chance than you in Africa to get that job, infact the reason why the job you are applying for on linkedin and other places, show over 100 applications so far is because of the Asia factor.

With all the above going against your chances, does it mean you should give up.

No.

Instead, do more,

Keep increasing your experience, grow your skill more and keep at it.

Cos all you need is one chance one opportunity for them to hear you out and know you can do it.

As for me, i test a lot and thats how i got the above info from a couple of recruiters who reached out to me on linkedin.
See my linkedin below

If you want to follow the monkey see monkey do process then use the below

Youtube:
Check for youtube beginner tutorials on Asp.net etc

absolute noob tutorial on asp.net
beginner to asp.net
asp.net begineer tutorial
etc

if you want to go the paid route
I would recommend
udemy
Skillshare
cousera

The above are all monkey see monkey do methods.

But if you want to understand what you are doing, so that you can actually learn to do critical reasoning and problem solving and debugging in asp.net.

then when you have finished watching youtube videos and udemy course till you enter tutorial hell.

Get an account in stackover and look at challenges in asp.net.

Get an account on chat.openai.com or meta.ai or blackbox.com ai and get interactive learning, focused on problem solving, critical reasoning and facing challenges.

Good luck on your journey

Interesting topic dear.

I like the way you think

But just to ask, can't each of these mentions part be a pinned topic in the section for a while to see if its popular if not, then its religated.
I believe this way would be better.

To test these, why not just topics on these are followup with new insights on these topics, this way you attract attention, quotes, views and arguements for these topics.

This way if its truly worth it, then Seun can look at making it a separate section.

Because if i were Seun the below would be what i consider first

1.Whats is the viewership trend for the programming topic on Nairaland?
2.How high is it?
3.How many topics have been shared about the things this guy is talking about?
4.How many views have these topics gathered?
5.Does the viewership warrant a breakaway to create a new top topic?
6.Whats the financials for the programming section, will creating an ai section bring more money?
7.How much does the programming topic make for the site?
8.How much will these topics make for the site?

And fortunately i can answer a few of these for you.

1. Check below the last post and the ads at the bottom of the section to see how many people are live.
Note that programming section usually has between min 3 max 50 people live at most times(oh i have check).

2.Min 3 usually during the day you see 3-10 people, max happens at night usually between 20-45 people( you can guess why).

3. Using what you said
We could have subsections on ML, CV, NLP, RL, DRL

ML(Machine Learning) there are over 1000 posts and 14 users mentioned it
google this site:nairaland.com "Machine Learning"

CV ( Computer Vision) has over 282 post
site:nairaland.com "Computer vision"

NLP (Natural Language Processing) has just shy of 289 posts
site:nairaland.com "Natural Language Processing"

4. View range is between 5 and 4000 views per topic.
site:nairaland.com "Natural Language Processing" AND "views"

5. Maybe, but a growing trend with likely advertisers

6. Currently it cost ₦4,138.03 to advertise in the programming section for a month, see rateshttps://www.nairaland.com/adrates
which is considering the views and comments here is quite em... fill in the blanks. besides how many are we and how many of us actually see the ads.

7. From my side i only see 4 ads top and bottom, there might be more from your side. @ 4138 thats roughly about 16k something, profitable (to some yes to other no).

8. Judging by the current trend on the programming section, and reduced for regression, may be 1-2 ads a month, that 8k something.
(worth it for a new section - No).

The above are things Seun or any forum owner with business intent, will consider before deciding to create a new section for AI.

princely4ever:


while that's a great idea, what's the point? there's clearly no huge difference, even if i actually used to do so. from experience, doing such leaves you bombarded with lots of code that may put you in a state of disarray esp. when you eventually have to debug lot of errors in your code. imagine you have to debug a 1,000 and something line of code instead of maybe a 300 in a separate file. easily navigating your code is something to talk about, too.
my piece of advice- while your friend may be right, just assigning each code to their respective files may save you the stress

I see you point @pricely4ever

Fun to know you actually use to do it before.

Ofcourse the essense for me it to have to do my eithers in one document, but ofcourse there will come a time i will work with multiple document as the code grows.

For now i feel comformable doing this this way, and when that time comes, i will move the codes to their various documents.

ASHTAROTH:
You should get a GitHub account.
Download any of the available code editors (eg. Vscode or Pycharm). Then make your repositories public so others can see and possibly suggest ways you can improve on it.
Although, it's been years I wrote html and CSS codes as I mostly write codes in C++ and Python these days, I can still help if you have any question about git and GitHub.

Thanks for the feedback @Ashtaroth.

I actually have 2 git hub accounts, but the thing is this. getting the site on github and then getting it to a server (aws or azure) is actually the end goal of my project.

See i did a Devop course last year that covered the basics of various apps and tools used for Devops, mainly Linux, bash scripting, git, marvin, nexus, sonarqube, jenkins, terraform, docker, kubinettes, anisable and grafana.

My annoyance with the course was it covered how to use these tools and apps but not indeptly. worst it didn't really show us how to solve the challenges one faces with using these tools and apps.

So my journey entails, creating this CRM and an erp, learning as many languages involved in the process as i go, then passing it through the devops processes above. Functionally understand the challenges of managing an app development cycle through each of these processes.

Hopefully when i get to the Devops part, i would have lunched the app functionally manager it and learn more about the challenges of each of the tools and apps i will use.

Hope this process is not so weird or wrong, that is my plan

larryking78:


I worked on one of recent

Wow really, could you tell more about it

If you are on an NDA, its fine, you can share the parts you feel are ok to share.

airsaylongcome:


You are entering "gangster" territory sha o...if you are planning to code an entire CRM or ERP solo. Unless you are looking at it as an opportunity to learn about CRMs/ERPs.

Add Dolibarr to that list for a PHP based (meaning, relatively simpler ERP) ERP. I don't like Dolibarr though because it's primary language is French

Hmm

the main idea is to do this as a project to learn what and what i need to complete a crm. As i learn the various languages i add to the overall project and upgrade it.

I know its crazy to go it alone, but so far its been a challenging and fun project. One that keeps shocking me on what i have done coming from 2-3 year ago where i didn't even know jack.

Now PHP was not in the charts for what i thought i needed to learn, but with discussions with some lads i met on linkedin, it seems adding it to my list would also be helpful.

Myplan was to shoot back to javascript then jquery then get in to understanding and using frameworks like reactjs, vuejs and then dabble back into nodejs and add python to the mix somewhere later.

In each case using what i have learnt to update the site, then when i feel i am at that level. then i move on to stage two

Ok will add that and circle back

Since its not hosted yet, please see the code below.

A friend of mine advised that it was better to work on your scripts and styles in the html document, so you can see you errors and correct them, then once your done, move em to their respective files.

So far thats how i work on my projects.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<title>IfeanHealth CRM</title>
<!--
<link rel="stylesheet" href="stylesheet/style.css">
-->
<style>
body {
background-color:#f4f4f4;
font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif
line-height: 1.2em;
}

.container {
display: grid;
grid-template-areas:
"header header"
"nav nav"
"main sidebar"
"footer footer";
grid-template-columns: 2fr 1fr;
grid-template-rows: 2fr 1fr;
gap: 10px;


}

.header {
grid-area: header;
background-color: #8b4513;
color: white;
border-top: 30px solid black;
box-shadow: 2px 1px 3px black;
border-radius: 5px 5px 0 0;
}

.header > img {
width: 150px;
height: auto;
float: right;
margin-top: -77px;
margin-right: 5px;
}

.nav {
grid-area: nav;
background-color: black;
box-shadow: 2px 1px 3px black;
padding-bottom: 7px;
margin-top: -5px;
height: auto;
border-radius: 0 0 5px 5px;
display: flex;
flex-wrap: wrap;
}

.nav > nav > ul {
display: flex;
flex-wrap: wrap;
justify-content: space-between;
}

.nav > nav > ul > li {
list-style: none;
padding: 2px;
}

.nav > nav > ul > li > a {
text-decoration: none;
margin: 5px;
color: white;
}


@media (max-width: 768px) {

.container {
grid-template-areas:
"header"
"nav"
"main"
"sidebar"
"footer";
grid-template-columns: 1fr;
}

}

.main {
grid-area: main;
padding: 10px;
margin-top: -10px;
}

.main > img {
max-width: 100%;
height: auto;
border-radius: 10px 0 10px 0;
}

.sidebar {
grid-area: sidebar;
padding-left: 10px;
border-left: 2px groove rgb(207, 205, 202);
border-style: 10px;
border: 2px groove black;
border-radius: 0 10px 0 10px;
}

.sidebar > aside > p {
margin-top: 0;
}

.sidebar > aside > form > label {
display: block;
padding: 5px 0;
}

.sidebar > aside > form > input {
padding: 5px;
margin-top: 5px;
width: 100%;
box-sizing: border-box;
}

.sidebar > aside > form > button {
background-color: #4caf50;
color: white;
padding: 10px;
border: none;
border-radius: 10px;
cursor: pointer;
margin-top: 10px;
width: 100%;
}

.footer {
grid-area: footer;
background-color: hsl(163, 23%, 64%);
padding: 5px;
}

</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
<div class="header">
<h1>IfeanHealth ERP</h1>
<img src="img/Ihlogo1.png" alt="IfeanHealth logo">
</div>

<div class="nav">
<nav>
<ul>
<li><a href="index.html">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="patient-new.html">New Patient</a></li>
<li><a href="patient-details.html">Patients Details</a></li>
<li><a href="clinical-details.html">Clinical Team</a></li>
<li><a href="patient-followup.html">Followup Team</a></li>
<li><a href="patient-pricing.html">Pricing Team</a></li>
<li ><a href="management-page.html">Management Team</a></li>
</ul>
</nav>
</div>

<div class="main">
<h2>IfeanHealth CRM</h2>
<p>Welcome to the IH ERP system</p>
<img src="img/ihimage1.JPG" alt="IfeanHealth image">
<p>This system was made to help you keep track and handle patient list development and management, patient acquisition.
It will help you track clinical pricing, followup and management tasks and resources</p>
</div>

<div class="sidebar">
<aside id="sidebar">
<h1>CRM Login </h1>
<p>If you have an account please login, else create your account by clicking the new user details below the login screen</p>
<form id="main-form">
<label for="username">Username:</label>
<input type="text" id="username" name="username">
<label for="mail">Email:</label>
<input type="email" id="mail" name="mail">
<label for="age">Age:</label>
<input type="number" id="age" name="age">
<button type="submit" value="Submit">Submit</button>
</form>
<div id="error-message"></div>
<p class="account-link">
Don't have an account? <a href="/signup">Create one</a>.
</p>
</aside>
</div>

<div class="footer">

<footer id="main-footer">
<p>Copyright &copy; 2024 IfeanHealth</p>
</footer>
</div>
</div>
<script src="scripts/mainscript.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

So i have been trying to learn javascript for a bit by watching tutorials, till finally i got tired of the "monkey see monkey do" approach on youtube and decided to give myself challenges to solve.

One of my biggest challenges with javascript was form submission of any kind.

For some reason i was coming up with errors, even if it was form submission to url or worst to another page, I had tried to use nodejs to do it earlier in the year.

But that i learnt the hard way that i didn't know what i was doing in node (particularly since i was using the "monkey see monkey do" approach on youtube.

So i paused told myself, go get a grasp on javascript first before you come back to you save point on node.

Thus was middle of march 2024.

I decide to say we dead here, let solve this problem once and for all. Let me get that good enough to do it in my sleep.

By first week of april, i had slightly solved the problem, and gotten a better understanding of using id's in html and document.getElement-- in javascript.

Then i noticed another problem, i had learnt html for a while and had just breezed through CSS just for the basic. As my goal for was javascript and then server side languages, Now that i understood form submission, my forms were still looking like a two year olds work on html.

So i decided, the heck, lets go back and under this design thing with CSS well.

During this time my wife had to go for a Myomectomy and i was with her in the hospital laptop and cracking Css to pass the time (more like to hide the tense of the surgey on my nerves).

I first started learning positioning schema's, using absolute and relative positioning.

.header {
position: relative;
top: -20px;
left: 5px;
}

.header > h1 {
position: absolute;
float: right;
right: 5px;
top: -20px;
}

I really loved how easy it allowed to position where you want and use z-index to overlap items. I felt so good till i resized the screen by mistake, then i saw my first problem.

They don't work well with small screens as you got to stroll to where things where on right.

To solve that i started exprimenting with margin, padding, border, height, width in all its ramification and examples. using things like

.header {
width: 100%;
height 40px;
padding-left: -120px
padding-top: 5px
bordor-top: 3px groove black;
box-shadow: 1px 5px 10px black;
}

Again i hit challenges with position on small screens and things not lining up.

then i finally stumbled on to
@media (max-width: 768px) {

}

And i was like finally, this could be where my solutions are. And like anyone who just learnt it, i started adding my styles to it.

Till i noticed that my screen maintained the same arrangement in smaller screens, which was had when you had a tiny usename and password form to fill.

Almost tired of looking for a solution and deciding what i knew was enough and to just go back to the javascript i de do.

I saw something about Css grids, ok this kinda looks like it might work.

.container {
display: grid;
grid-template-areas:
"header header"
"nav nav"
"main sidebar"
"footer footer";
grid-template-columns: 2fr 1fr;
grid-template-rows: 2fr 1fr;
gap: 10px;


}

This is looking promising, can i use it on small screens, yes. Cool
Can i even adjust the columns to 1 on a small screens.

@media (max-width: 768px) {

.container {
grid-template-areas:
"header"
"nav"
"main"
"sidebar"
"footer";
grid-template-columns: 1fr;
}

}

Sweet. Sugar crunch.

I think i will use this for now going forward.

See the things i built with it below.

Next i want to take a look at Bootstrap an tailwind frameworks then jump back to javascripts hopeful nodejs and other serve side languages before end of june.

Wish me lucks guys as my final project is building a CRM ERP.

Aiit guys rate my build

Tech Journey at 40
https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VaF6eqo6LwHtvEZcjh0m

airsaylongcome:


Take a look at SuiteCRM for PHP based CRM. For full ERP solutions, look at Odoo, ERPNEXT or etendo

Big thank bruv

tensazangetsu20:
CRM is too huge to develop by one single person except you are a coding genius. I am a Salesforce developer now and Salesforce is a CRM and even users have to write a whole lot of code to maintain and extend the functionalities it has.

Actual worked with an office where we used sales force, i can relate to it as an advance crm.

But i was thinking about doing something simpler, something not on the scale of Sales force but more on the scale of zoho or wakanda crm.

I saw something like it (browser based crms) being offered to a hospital, school and a big store, which was used to manage staff, accounts inventory, medical records and tickets. thus want to see if i can build something like it (not so advanced like salesforce.)

Oh an love the name @tensazangetsu20, guessing you are a really big Bleach fan

Hello Guys

I know you are doing well.

Just asking, anyone here worked on a (CRM) Customer Relationship Management Web App or an enterprise resource planning web app.

A typical example are Zoho Crm, quickbooks erp or your typical managemt systems (school management systems or hospital management systems) note web related (in browser).

I am currently working on developing one, but i want to speak someone who has done it or worked on it locally

If you don't mind, i did like to pick you brain on what languages you used for both frontend and backend.

So we all know that PHCN makes money from unmetered customers.

This i found out the hard way, even after following up with mails to CC Ikeja electric

Who blatantly told me that even if we do not have light, they have a right too bill me according to the NERC cap for my area.

Note:

I moved into the area, Around estate Bus stop, off Isheri Oshun road, Ijegun, Alimosho Lagos. last year may. and since i moved in i have had to run generators as electricity had decided that our area has covid and stays away.

Power can come for 2 mins in a day and then disappear for a week.

Sometimes it will show up for an evening but then the tranformer will take it from medium to smoke in 5 mins, then smoke nah light you go see for 5 hours.

In essence since last year, i have never seen full light that carries a fridge.

Still i kept paying their bill, till i decide to complain to ikejaElectric customercare email. about how bad the light is and how bad our transformer is.

Next thing i know i get a bill for 259 units of light for march 2024.

In my mind i was like, "come who use 259 units, how?, where the light?.

So i send them another mail and i get the below reply.

My Initial Mail



Hello Ikeja Electric

I trust this finds you well

Please you guys really need to look into our area as the electricity supply is just beyond poor.

I moved into here since last year and the light situation has not improved at all, some time we will only get electricity supply for 1 min in days.

I have complained about this and nothing was done about it before.

Now, not having seen light for close to a week now, i just received my bill and saw the below



KUDEYIBU / 01026

Your Bill for Mar 2024:



Tariff: D-Non MD

Rate: 31.24

Read Code: D

LAR:

PAR:

Consumption: 259.00

Curr. Charges: N8,698.00

Previous Balance: N4,598.11

Payment: N3,800.00

Adjustment: N0.00

Amt Due: N9,496.11

Due Date: 17 Apr 2024.



Note, even without receiving electricity i alway make sure bills are paid.

But why the increase if i do not have any electricity, what exactly was i billed for, knowing full well i didn't even use anywhere near 259 units of electricity through out late month.(worths now in april as i have only seen electricity last week friday and saturday less than 4 hours, on tuesday last week from 12:45 midnight till 4am,). Currently as i write this there has not been light since then.

Please look into both issues i raised.

Hopefully i can get a feedback soon

Regards



Seem below their reply


Dear Customer

Following our previous correspondence, please be informed that feedback from our team confirms that your account was billed according to NERC cap for your location.

Hence, the bills are appropriate.

Thank you for contacting


So please whats is the NERC cap for location and does it mean that it gives them a right to bill us even if there is no electricity

I have also asked the NERC what the cap for my area is, still waiting for a reply

How does one go from learning the basics of programming language then start applying for positions in the space of

So let me share a bit of history about me.

I have worked in Naija as a business developer and sales person for a number of years, I have always had my eye on Programming for a long time, but never dabbled into it, till last year

I was seriously looking at growing my knowledge in IT, when an opportunity was presented to me last year to learn Devops.

Not knowing jack, i dived in and found i was actually understand what was being taught. the course was handled by a school called MyLandmarkTech, had over 900 students from across the world.

It was an eight months course covering Devop, Devops process from Linux, Bash scripting, Git, Marvin, Sonarqube, Nexus, Jenkins, Terraform, Docker, Kubernettes, Ansible, Grafana, Kops8 etc.

One might say quite a lot

After finishing some classes and trying to learn(try being the operative word), i heard some of my course mates had already started getting jobs, not to be out done. I asked a few friend how they did it and created a new linkedin page and started applying for positions.

Now through out the times i applied and did a few interviews with recruiters and a couple of thing kept coming up i could not answer. Like the below.

"Lack of Experience", "How long have you used", " Whats you understanding of new technologies", "how does your team work with (git, jira, slack-etc).", "what challenges did you solve at your office or for your clients".

Quickly enough i started to understand that i was not up to par with some of what these guys were looking for, which was quite disappointing going through an interviews and not being able to answer most questions.

Fortunately, one recruiter from ireland actually followed up with me and start giving advise on what i needed to do to upgrade, and were to focus.

He explained that he just left a factory job 2 years back to purse a career in tech, thus he understood where i was coming from and how the industry treats people who have the basics and are trying to act like they know way more.

His advise is one reason i an trying to learn front and backend development, based on the current raising trends in web related applications

Why do i bring this story up.

Do not underestimate your little knowledge.

If you can write a language and only have the basic knowledge (6 months to 2 years of experience) to complete 1 or 2 personal or major projects.

Do not let it stop you from applying for an international position on what you have learnt.

When given the opportunity, speak proudly and passionately of what you have done, your journey so far.

qtguru:


Exactly the point I've worked in companies who use both, Node for SSR application to interface with their middleware in Java, these conversations of nodejs vs Java are done with, it's all bout business value. Nairaland should have gone past these kind of conversations.

I find out one funny thing about the programming section on Nairaland, people just have beef with what other peoples post for no reason.

This is really making it opic for people who would want to post challenges or request solutions, thus why it feels like the section is just stagnant with people posting about unrelated maters.

We really should not always jump to berate and shutdown people who post with real situations, else how does this section become naija's own stackoverflow.