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This is a good idea, maybe something will materialize from it. Add me to the group when its created 08138349676.

A simple RSS/Atom aggregator service, implemented purely as a Rest API secured with OAuth2, basically registered users (via clients of the service) can see clickable summaries of posts/articles from websites whose feeds the service will use, feeds are grouped into 'channels' depending on topic e.g health, tech etc. Email verified Users can also make 'collections' of feeds they will like to see things from. Users with
'Editor' privileges can add content to a universal channel called 'Picks' , which is available to anyone. E.t.c.

Most of the features are inspired by observing digg.com and feedly. I will have learnt alot when am done. Am doing it in Java using Spring Boot + other Spring modules, and some other minor libraries.

kudaisi:
Try ATOM/RSS feeds. Most news website (all serious ones) have RSS at the littlest, virtually all CMSs support RSS. Simply adding rss to the end of most domains will give you access to their feeds (e.g http://sunnewsonline.com/feed/, http://punchng.com/feed/, lindaikejisblog.com/feeds/posts/default).

Some website's feeds are hierarchical, bigger news companies like CNN break their feeds further down to categories (e.g World
Africa,Americas,Asia,Europe,Middle East,U.S,Money,Technology.....)

On a personal level, I don't even visit most of my routine websites individually on a daily basis except I want to review comments on a particular topic (some websites even make comment feeds available) I just load them all up into some rss reader, hence more flexibility and less time hoping from one page to another. Lastly, there are many rss libraries out there and it is relatively simple to even build your own. I hope this helps.

Spoken my mind. I should also add that some orgs like the New York Times, have strict policies regarding use of their feeds , so read carefully. for the UK Guardian simply attach 'rss' to the URL of any index page and you have access to it, e.g to access the the feed for the technology section, the URL would be theguardian.com/uk/technology/rss

You could build an API back end that aggregates these feeds, and makes them available to your app. Many libraries exist for parsing RSS/Atom , and make the work easier.

My thoughts:

The UI is really good though a little slow , the snoott logo is poor. will people use a twitter clone? I think not, but we'll see. Best of luck.

*Sharpens cutlass*

Kudos to the OP, this is long overdue, this section really needs to be moderated harshly, not only because of the people selling one script or another, so many things appear here that should not, this section can become really exciting and helpful with a hard set of rules.

As for moderators, sure they should be active people, but how do we define active ? I visit this section atleast once everyday and have done so months before i even signed up with this username, I consider myself active even though I hardly post or open any threads and am sure there are many like me.
My point is the criteria for criteria for choosing mods should not be the number of posts a person has written or how popular they are on the board, a group of mods should be choosen who will prepare a simple set of rules and regulations and enforce them.

The current state of this section is sad and embarrassing.

pseudonomer:
I didn't see that... I scored 70%+

C mail

pseudonomer:
I sent you a mail.

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pseudonomer:
I just received an email from them now. And, I did the assessment test, my score was sent to me instantly. From the email, I would be contacted in two weeks time if selected.

Good for you! All the best.

pseudonomer:
How do I know if I'm selected or not?

If you dont receive an email from them soon, you most likely were not selected. Because i remember i read somewhere that the program starts beginning of March or so.

Smh.. Don't worry with time you go get sense.. *un-follows thread*

asalimpo:
Google bears no relevance to coding work, except you're looking for some script to download and use.
The api docs, references (ebooks) is enough. You dont need the latest api docs anyway, they dont change so often.
A program = data structure + algorithm. How much googling dyu need for that!

Lolz clearly have never built anytin serious.. When you start building real applications nobody will tell you to start googling , and am not talking about copying code.

asalimpo:
popular opinion, but b.s. I dont use google and i'm doing fine.

four things are possible :

1) you are not been completely honest

2) you have memorised the whole of Java 's class libraries from class String to the Stream API and beyond (hehehehehehe)

3) like me you have access to latest versions of many of the best Java books covering different areas and supplement them with google.

4) you are still writing very trivial applications.

Your background gives you a big advantage, and I understand you not liking JS I feel the same way coming from Java, JS will feel messy to someone used to the strict orderliness of C++, Java, C#.

That said, I think you should ignore Jquery, the future of web development is Single Page Applications, built with libraries like React and frameworks like angular, server-side rendering is gradually dying.

IMHO you should quickly study a good JS introductory material and then start learning ReactJS, angular 2 is still too young (first stable release was in September last year) especially for someone new to web development, angular 1 will gradually be replaced by 2 anyway.

No harm in starting with Jquery though, to get your hands dirty. But if I were in ur shoes I wouldn't, I would start with JS.

Whytelyon:

Now you know,why not shut your toilet. Dumb skull. Always looking for people to insult when they clearly don't know anything.

If you feel like you want to advise people, render advise and keep shut. I've taught several things on Nairaland with ma other moniker, and I'm super proud of it. He wants to make fun, when it's few java for dummies you know.... go and learn. olodo,you don't know how to talk.

The Linus Torvalds jibe really got to you then

Whytelyon:

If he chooses to compile on IDE and familiarise with it,fine, if he chooses cmd, its ok. When I went to aptech, I learnt with netbeans ide, although I dropped java and went back to C later on.

And pls we are not fighting are we? I asked a question,if you obviously don't know how to reply people, go and learn. You obviously not talking to a novice in programming industry. I don't even know what's wrong with you.

Sorry Linus Torvalds , I didn't know it was you

Whytelyon:

Hmm,

So, djtush, and abdulwahabO,when you are in clients side and they give you projects that is meant to take you about a week to conclude, you'd use command line? Isn't it? Very good, how do you deal with intellisense,auto complete, and modules? How do you use previously used methods in your program in java?

.. I said he should START from command line as beginner, it will teach him a lot of good habits and really help him remember how things work. After a month or two then move to an IDE. do you people even read posts before replying to them?

Code completion, intellisense, blah blah are of no use to a novice, his goal should be to learn how to program.

What kind of Java programmer can't compile and run small programs from a cli?.

Did you just mention client jobs ?, OP can't even compile and run a program, getting a job is the least of his problems right now.

Djtush:
I am on the journey, I use cmd not eclipse or netbean
1) I see how my .java code is transformed to .class/bytecode and how it runs
2) its fun working with cmd. u actually feel like a programmer
3) I easily see my mistakes.. u know java is case sensitive
4) it helps me know the code offhand.. with eclipse it gives u option so not doesn't really drill u

only use eclipse when u actually have a big or heavy program to run

You have the right attitude, goodluck.

babajeje123:
You can discourage o. It is not a good trait. I asked for your own opinion only to say chai like Patience Jonathan.

Please don't be discouraged, if you want my opinion read my old posts I have been giving it, am leaving the thread, goodluck with your journey into Java.

Chai! Ok

onedayatime:
because he dosent start with CLI mean he is not going to come good in java? Keep deceiving yourself

Can you even read?

Do what you want, but trust me if you rush forward it will come back to bite you later, make sure you understand the basics, learning how to program is a marathon and not a 100 metre dash.

You jumped straight to an IDE? I don't think that's a good idea, it will help you to learn how to compile and run programs on the command line and using just Notepad++ to write code.

Java involves plenty of coding ceremony, but it's predictable, organised and comes with strict rules IMHO this makes it easier once the basics click, it takes time to really get the fundamentals, but when you do everything becomes much easier , using and understanding one of its three super IDEs make writing code much easier.

babajeje123:
I want to learn java. Can you please recommend ebooks I can use? Thanks

+10. The Deitel book is very good. Also look into Java: a beginner's guide by Herbert Schildt and Java: the complete reference by the same author. But the most important thing you will need is patience and perseverance

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