.NET C#/VB.NET Project in the Pipeline for Programmers who may be interested

Still waiting on an update from you @Ayinkus,  Please fill us all in on what we are up against and  how we can get an edge over them please.

its like the blog is now refining itself only the serious in heart are stilll coming in. please lets do it.

hi kobo,
if i reme,ber correctly, you sent me a mail with an assignment, which i did in asp.NEt and return immediately, up until today, i haven't heard the last of it.
am I in or what?

I love the information that Ayinkus provided. What is the purpose of doing this in the first place? We thought this kind of thing did not exist. Now since we know that it exists, what next do we do? Since we have not started, why don't we look at something else that we can do to benefit the country. To me, we will just be re-inventing the wheel. The way some people sounded, it is as if we are in competition with some other people. To me that is not the reason why we are doing this. Reading this post, a lot of people will start raining abuses on me. When somebody can accuse Ayinkus of discouraging others when he was merely informing us of some information he was privileged to have, what will they say about me.

If there is a government department that has been charged with that function and obviously they are doing that, I feel we should let them know what we are coming up with and if there is anything that can be done to combine the two 'groups' together. If we don't go that route, I don't see any point in our doing it anyway. We are just about to start while they are already at the testing stage. So what is the point.

Mind you this is merely my opinion. If the group still feel we should continue, I will, though I don't see any reason why we should. We should come up with some other things that will be USEFUL for the country. In fact, there are some other things I have in mind too. I will keep it for now so that people will not feel I am killing a GOOD and BRIGHT idea so that I can push forward my own idea.

It is a good idea. It is a bright one. The question is: Do we continue when others are doing it? Others should come up with some other ideas. Yes I realise other people will say Yes, there was Windows before somebody came up with Linux. There are countless other packages from the mainstream. There was Internet Explorer yet there is Firefox as open and free alternative. That is precisely the point. Those people wanted to be sure that Microsoft will not dominate. They are competing with Microsoft. We are NOT competing with NESG or whatever the body is.

What do you think?

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. Yes, the task is to make sure that you get a copy of VS 2008 installed on your development machine and ready to go. If you do not know how to download it you can go on www.asp.net to get information on how to troubleshoot any problems you may have in getting it work.

About your first post. you do express some points in there but I would also like you to examine the reality of the continent we call africa in all this.My first question to you as a Nigerian is to inform me of how many projects you know of which have been assigned the government of Nigeria in the past 10 years, and have been carried out successfully and well maintained for at least 5 years since all your years as a Nigerian.

My second is why do you not believe that if we provide an alternative, for those who are not satisfied with what is out there, we will be doing the wrong thing??

My Third is what about the private schools and the many schools that are not in Nigeria, do you not think they could benefit from us in some way???

Should Operating Systems projects be shut down then cause Microsoft already had one in place??? I mean there seems to be new OS programs coming up across the world by the year, why do they continue if the logic should be since it already exists, no need doing it again and maybe even doing it better??

Attn Software Preparation Team:

To: Tracy, Ahmed Guru, AyoTunde, bashtech, Binary, CPrompt, Danex, follasuk, Gozzilla, Kanirip, LordBenax, MikkyTrionze, Olabanji, Gabriel Oluwasegun, OpenSource

I am a  member of Pipeline Project Preparation team, I will suggest meeting on Week-end, something like Saturday night or Sunday night(Time from 8:30pm-10:00pm) but let others think over this.

We can communicate through Yahoo Messenger - Conference Chat.

Remember these hints please:

Be sensitive to cultural differences

It's possible that your virtual team all thinks and acts the same way. However, more and more virtual teams consist of people from multiple countries and cultures. If you are the project manager on this type of team, make sure you have some appreciation for the differences in how people work and how they behave.

Communicate, communicate, communicate

You need to be extra proactive in your communications to make sure everyone understands what is expected. People can start to feel isolated if they do not receive regular communications. It is hard enough to keep everyone informed on a "regular" project. The communication lines on a virtual team must be opened up especially wide. As project manager, you can provide this steady stream of communication.

Adjust and compromise on time differences

Remember that what's convenient for you may not always be convenient to the team members. I was on a project team at a large global company where the manager insisted that team meetings start at 9:00 am. That was convenient for him but resulted in hard feeling from people in other locations who needed to stay very late for these meetings.

I have sent out at least 2 task emails by now. Please check your emails and respond appropriately.

There is a guy in this Programming thread who is offering people a way to get the Visual Studio 2008 Express version. You can look at his post for help on how to get it. You can also get SQL Express through him and then play around with it for sometime. I mean SQL is SQL and since you are coming from Oracle, it will not be hard. I myself have had to do some pl/sql lately and I am sure going to doing only SQL will not be too hard for you.

Dude
No one uses DFD no more . . . Gees.
Ever heard of UML - much better way to represent OOPs and clients tend to understand them better.

Yo! My access to viewpath has not been authenticated. I tried logging but i couldnt, i tried my both e-mail addys and the passwords but i couldnt log in. How do i fix this?

I just tried logging in with the information that was sent and it worked with no problems @Benax,  What message do you get when you try?

 Hi fellow Nigerian Programmers,
I just joined nairaland because of this topic and it gladens my heart to see this topic being discussed here and acted upon.
I am a programmer my self with backgroung in VB(6 & .net), C++,database(SQL 7.0 - 2005) . i will like to be one of the pillars of this project and in fact I have started a 32bit of an application of this type and architecture. I wouldnt mind to share my idea with great thinkers like you guys, God bless us.God bless Nigeria.  thanks

Thanks kobojunkie,
first of all i would like to know if a system study of how a typical nigerian school runs both administratively and acacdemically. also if this study is going to be performed for the different level of the 6-3-3-4 system

Well kobojunkie,
I am not a fan of "copy and paste" but a disciple of "weeding and planting". what I mean by that is that I think our(nigerian) edu. system is quite different from the American. I will suggest we look at both and compare and contrast. then we see which systems we can integrate and adapt to suit and improve the nigerian system.

I can see that the SW dev. team have mapped out their SDLC. how do we no their current status?

Hello All,

Please if a meeting time has not been decided, I will be available for any sort of e-meeting over the weekends that would
be fine for me.

And regarding Federal Govts Plan to create a similar application to what we are planning, My advise is not to worry too much about  that!

As long as it is the Nigerian Govt, there is a high probability it will never get off the ground. You will not believe the amount of politics that goes into any Government Project!
Lets us continue with what we are doing I'm sure ours will at least be better than whatever the Nigerian Govt. can bring up, either in cost or quality!

Now with regards to the system, please can someone give me some sort of Software Boundaries stating exactly what the Software WILL and WILL NOT do because right now I still don't know( Please don't be angry @ me Kobo!

The Net Support App Kobo recommended does so much its quite incomprehensile that our application should be done according or following such precidents.

So any help on the Software Functionality would be nice!


K