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Everyone knows that the ONLY thing that nairaland has is DATA. If you scrap the DATA and reconstruct a better nairaland, that is like the beginning of the end.
This is why the GODS are scared!!!

@Superstar007 and @nijabazaar are elligible to join still, as we have not officially started until 8:00 pm.

Acknowledged

Let us move to the second stage of the competition - https://www.nairaland.com/4871016/nairaland-programming-competition-2018-second#73359516

Passing by

Answer wetin o?

I believe that since the competition has not officially kicked off, that will be wednesday, people can still join.

@0r30, you have made very good points indeed, let us be looking at kicking off by next week wednesday evening 8:00 pm. At least people suppose don come back from work by that time.

wait, what are the issues?

The competition will kick off by saturday morning 8:00 am. DHTML, please post the link to the documentation of the API by 8:00 tomorrow and give us room to ask questions in case there are issues with the API.

Great that you have solved it. I will also use this opportunity to chip in a few things:

1. For developers, try to use simple directory structures.
2. Use simple naming conventions e.g. if you are like me, just name your files with lowercase and be consistent with it. Or name your files with camelCase - and require it that way.

Many developers enter a jam for this, see this:

+ index.php
+ Head.php
+ Foot.php


inside index.php, you now do this
include 'head.php';
include 'foot.php';

This will work on windows and mac, but by the time you get to a live server e.g. linux, you will start getting file not found, and start wondering if it is your village people that are chasing you.

I don wake dey go be that.

lordweezy:
i will sponsor the competition. message me on whatsapp +855962641465.

my terms are I want developers to target building a data recording and mining app for Nigerian government. Am tired of a country where the pvc, national id card and bvn is not merged. I want developers to merge these and let's give it to the Nigerian government free or for a royalty.

the benefits are: if these are merged, we know who is citizen, banks know when you have loan from anyone. government knows when you working or not,citizens can access loans easily, we can lobby for national health insurance for all citizens, we can also lobby for educational loan from government or banks,if more development like government transport systems comes e.g government owns the entire means of transport. simple you buy state monthly subscription and go to work daily with or without cash using this new id card.

my desire is to see a better Nigeria and technology can take us further than we can imagine.

I only sponsor good projects.

I have been looking at this stuff, it is too big to put into a simple competition like this. But let us see how the competition goes, based on the performance, we can see if we can set this one up as another competition too ----> though for intermediates (not beginners)

Good morning people, I was feeling sleepy at the time. This is a very important question that we need an answer to before we proceed.

If I can get like 5 votes to support this motion, we go for dhtml's option, otherwise we will have to look for another option.

You guys can chose to go with dhtml's offer, here is how that can work.


I am going to award overall 1st with 30k, overall second with 20k, overall 3rd with 10k.

And DHTML is ready to award the best in each of the categories with 50k each.

Are you guys for this? or should be look for another option?

@Chatflick you are welcome, since the competition has not yet been determined, you can still troll in. Are you competiting or acting as a judge?

@silver, adonbiliv you are competing, na judge you suppose be o. What kind of troll are you sef?

^^^data collection something keh? where was that one stated o?

By the way, registration is now closed o (we don allow one late comer already)

I am thinking of something here that will be more beneficial to the programming community.

How about we do it like this:

We split the competition into three categories:

Cat A - Desktop application ----> here the C++, node webkit, java people can do their thing
Cat B - Mobile application -----> here the flutter, java/android/ios people can do their stuffs
Cat C - Web application ------> area for the gods of web development to show themselves

Anyone of the above contestants can pick ONE category ONLY where they want to show themself.


And the price will now be reviewed to
1ST 30k
2ND 20k
3RD 10k

At least that will spread the chances of people a bit. Now as to the content of the quiz, I will come up with something in my next post.

Very good, how did you do it? So that others can learn.

hmn

I have built frameworks before, and I know this is the technique used by most frameworks to load stuffs so that you dont enter wahala with require/include things.

anyone can suggest, it will help me think. i will decide on what to go with.

So so, what do you suggest? I have been thinking about it too, and cant seem to reach a conclusion.

Let me explain something:

+ resources
++ views
+++ header.php
+++ footer.php
+ app
++ template.php
+ index.php

Let us assume you load the index folder, and want to include the app/template.php, here is what most people will do
include "app/template.php"; //relative addressing

Here is what i will do
include __DIR__."/app/template.php"; //absolute addressing

So let us now assume that inside the template.php you wish to include header.php, you best best is this

include __DIR__."/../resources/views/header.php"; //this is absolute addressing still


If you want to include footer.php inside header.php, then is best to do
include __DIR__."/footer.php";

If you follow this guideline, you will get it better.