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If you will like to serve as a coach at the event, register here - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeAnOuNpOZZD6G6WXbs3LqN_G-sXL9pRpCUX7jB2010NvcNgA/viewform We look forward to having you all

Ashpot:
The Django Girls Workshop is happening in Aba for the very first time, and we're super excited to invite you to be a part of it.

Django Girls is a special workshop training event that helps people learn how to make websites. This time, it's mainly for girls, (but boys are invited too), and it's all about making technology fun! This epoch event is organized by the Python Abia Community. founded by Psalms Kalu in 2019 to support the growing needs of Python developers within the Abia tech space

Even if you don't know anything about making websites, that's totally okay. Our nice teachers will show you step by step how to make your very own website. You'll learn lots of cool stuff and meet others who like making websites too.

Why Should You Come?
- Try It Yourself: The workshop is like a fun game where you get to make things. It's not hard, and you'll be surprised at what you can do!
- Everyone's Welcome: Boys and girls, no matter what you know, can come. You don't need to be an expert.
- Help from Experts: Our teachers are really good at this and will help you if you have questions.
- Meet New Friends: You'll meet others who also like making websites. Maybe you'll even make new friends!

To be part of the Django Girls Workshop in Aba, just sign up here: https://djangogirls.org/aba/apply/ . But don't wait too long because there's only a little bit of space.

This is a special chance to learn about websites and have fun with others who like it too. Tell your friends and ask them to come along!

PHOTO CREDIT: Just concluded Django Girls Abuja!

The Django Girls Workshop is happening in Aba for the very first time, and we're super excited to invite you to be a part of it.

Django Girls is a special workshop training event that helps people learn how to make websites. This time, it's mainly for girls, (but boys are invited too), and it's all about making technology fun! This epoch event is organized by the Python Abia Community. founded by Psalms Kalu in 2019 to support the growing needs of Python developers within the Abia tech space

Even if you don't know anything about making websites, that's totally okay. Our nice teachers will show you step by step how to make your very own website. You'll learn lots of cool stuff and meet others who like making websites too.

Why Should You Come?
- Try It Yourself: The workshop is like a fun game where you get to make things. It's not hard, and you'll be surprised at what you can do!
- Everyone's Welcome: Boys and girls, no matter what you know, can come. You don't need to be an expert.
- Help from Experts: Our teachers are really good at this and will help you if you have questions.
- Meet New Friends: You'll meet others who also like making websites. Maybe you'll even make new friends!

To be part of the Django Girls Workshop in Aba, just sign up here: https://djangogirls.org/aba/apply/ . But don't wait too long because there's only a little bit of space.

This is a special chance to learn about websites and have fun with others who like it too. Tell your friends and ask them to come along!

PHOTO CREDIT: Just concluded Django Girls Abuja!

Hotel business is one of the booming businesses in Aba. Aba has lots of hotels - so many that the list is almost endless.

A little search for hotels in Aba reveals over 100 results on Google, yet one hotel stands out as exceptional, affordable and reliable - the Trace Garden Hotel located at the heart of the Aba town at 5 Brass Street Aba.

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The hotels has six major room types:

Classic Room - #15,000.00 per night
Deluxe Room (king Bed) - #17,000.00 per night
Deluxe Twin - #20,000.00 per night
Executive Luxury - #23,000.00 per night
Super Executive Room - #30,000.00 per night
Executive Suits - #40,000.00 per night

Staying in Aba for the weekend, an event, holiday, etc? Do you want to have access to the best hotel in Aba at affordable rate? Stay with us, Trace Garden Hotel - affordable rooms, best rooms.

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1. Trace Garden Hotel
No 5 Brass Street, Aba, Abia State . +234 815 331 5725

2. Binez Hotel Ltd
5-11 Nwogu Street, Umungasi

3. Enitona Hotels
8 Margret Avenue, Aba

4. Addrex Hotel
18 Opobo Rd, Ogbor Hill, Aba•0810 000 0895

5. Terminus Hotel
246Azikiwe Rd, Aba, &nbsp•0703 691 8101

6. Abia Hotel
10 Aba-Owerri Rd, Aba, Aba, Abia State

7. Hotel De La Paix
60 Ekenna Avenue, By No. 38 Brass Street, Aba, Aba, Abia•0806 252 6393

8. Marrox Garden
A342, Ogbor Hill, Aba•0816 983 7669

9. Crest Hotel
Plot 32A Margaret Ave, Gra, ABA•0803 449 2596

10. LaHero Hotel
75 Umuocham Rd, Abayi, Aba•0806 331 9359

Visit Ashpot https://ashpotmicrosystems.com
Physical Location: 11 Nicholas Street off Brass Junction Aba
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Chat9ja, a social networking website made and designed by Nigerians and for Nigerians alone has announced the release of their first ever mobile app - Chat9ja Discussion

An official message stated that "Chat9ja Discussions is specially designed to view, start and manage daily discussions in your social circle on Chat9ja. This app does not provide the full features of the Chat9ja social network. Its uses are limited to managing your discussion and profile."

The app was in response to the demand from some of their numerous subscribers. The website said the app will help manage only the discussion aspects of their social network. Other social networking functions will still be done directly on the website., until the final release of the full app later this year.

Chat9ja was launched in September, 2013 by an IT company Ashpot Microsystems Ltd based in Nigeria, and offers full social networking functions for persons and businesses based in Nigeria

Source: http://chat9ja.com/forums/256234/chat9ja-announces-release-of-its-first-ever-mobile-app

This SMS site is hot and trending now http://ashpotsms.com Cheap. Reliable & Fast

After a meeting of the Academic Staff Union Of Polytechnics (ASUP), Abia State Polytechnic chapter held on Wednesday, the association has decided to suspend the on-going strike with effect from Monday, 7th December 2015.

The union resume a previously suspended industrial action on November this year, after the state government failed to redeem is promise to clear all salary arrears by 30th October. The institution has been a tug of war with the government on issues relating to salaries.

Read also: http://chat9ja.com/forums/465497/we-will-clear-all-salary-arreas-in-abia-state-before-30th-october-gov-ikpeazu


After the government recently paid salaries upto September, the union decided to suspend the strike as a show of goodwill to the government for doing far better than his predecessor, and for paying up an embarrassing loan facility incurred by past administration on the polytechnic amounting up to N2 billion.

Speaking to our correspondent, one of the lecturers commented that the union has not "called off" the strike but has only suspended it as a show of goodwill, and called on the state government and other parties involved not to renege on their promises, but to ensure that the remaining October to December salaries are paid before the end of the year.

Meanwhile students have been advised to return to school for the new 2015/2016 session starting on Monday 7th December, 2015

Source: http://chat9ja.com/forums/833685/abiapoly-lecturers-calls-off-strike-students-should-return-to-school

The untimely sad death of the APC Kogi gubernatorial election, Prince Abubakar Audu, has exposed an unforeseen loophole in Nigerian constitution.

The Nigerian constitution never envisaged a scenario where a candidate will die after the polls and before the final result is announced.

This is a true constitutional dilemma as it raises the following questions:

1. Will the election be cancelled and the whole electoral process repeated, as the affected party produce a new candidate.

2. Should the diseased candidates running mate automatically replace him.

3. Should the party bring in a new person who never campaigned, had primaries, etc to replace the diseased candidate.

4. If a new candidate comes up to replace the diseased one should he claimed the existing votes made for the diseased candidate

What is your opinion? Let's hear it

Source: http://chat9ja.com/forums/227946/death-of-apc-kogi-guber-election-exposes-loophole-in-nigerian-constitution

Developing a game is a bit like an actor choosing a part and learning their script. Your game plan has to be who you are going to be.

Not many people choose consciously to be a loser but that's where they end up. Don't let it happen to you. And it doesn't ,once you seize the initiative and develop a game plan.Your game plan is a sort of personal mission statement. It is different from setting objectives which is how to be the person your game plan decides you are.

So who are you going to be? Successful? A failure? Someone who gives up? Someone who picks themselves up, dusts themselves off and starts over again? A brilliant career strategist? A loser? None of these?

Obviously you can decide to be ruthless, unpleasant, cruel, vindictive, but we assume you are won't - a Rules player is never any of these. Your game plan should include your qualities as well as what sort of game you want to plan - "I will be successful and still be a thoroughly nice person".

Read full story ... [url] http://chat9ja.com/forums/189506/rule-1-have-a-game-plan [/url]

Guys, you may not know this, I have studied the past, i have experienced the present, and i can predict the future, the one and only Nigerian social network positioned to take over the future is http://chat9ja.com

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Jregz:
yes you can get it in a dvd pack,there are probably about 500+(1k+ plus ?) linux distributions... i prefer ubuntu,though i used CentOS for some time

I use Red Hat distro. I have OpenSUSE, but never tried it. I am barely six months into linux OS. But as an xperienced programmer, it doesn't take time to adapt. My best side gain is bye bye to anti-virus. No more virus when you use linux.

cbtgeek:
most of nigeria programmers do not want to learn from basic all they want is to build whatsapp the first day I have been learning for almost 4 years now I do earn of freelancer.com so keep learning and very soon you will be good

2.nigerian programmers always argue or depends on one language
if u want to be good in code
knowing java is good but have u ever wondered what is java running ontop
learn c , assembly this language will open you ur eyes in code

3. fear : in programming once you start doubting yourself you will surely fall

I remember when I coded my simplex media converter one of my guy told me that in five years I haven't finish it coz he happens to know that total video converter had over 20 ciders
but in 3months I finish it and it had a non blocking gui while converting which over 20 ciders was unable to implement into total video converter

4. be urself ;
believe it or not all the library, rules and other were all invented by some one like me and u
knowledge is power nobody will give u there knowledge at a low cost coz if u have there knowledge u have the same power as them

i am liking you already. Good to know there are still some good programmers out there. Sometimes i feel like am all alone.

my brother! No be small import duties...

moderatorr1:
That's because you have not worked on any serious project.
If you work on speech or facial recognition for instance, you will import libraries so te you start paying import duties.
You will consume API's like burning bush.

If you choose to code the libraries yourself, it will take you the exact same number of years it took the coders to build (most likely even more because they are a team).

This will distract you from the original project you wanted to do in the first place.

Folks, I intend to pass a message. I am an advocate for development of indigenous African software. Our copy-copy mentality is keeping us at the bottom of the programming food chain. But kudos to you all for the intelligent and smart replies. I am new to Nairaland, and I appreciate the professional opinions I have gotten here. . The message i think is: CAN WE START EXPORT CODES TO THE WORLD, INSTEAD OF JUST IMPORTING. And it's high time we indigenous developers got together and carved a niche for ourselves in the world!

Thank you all!

When I was a fresher in the polytechnic, I wrote a full scale arithmetic engine called MULTRIX in BASIC on a P3 IBM PC. If you were interested in computers and programming back early 2000's, I bet you did the same something similar. When I was in my finals, I wrote a logic-driven Library Manager in Java which won a National Award as best Object oriented software design. By the time I was out of school, I was already writing enterprise applications for individuals and businesses. I was in touch with guys from my software team in school, and we were going to develop an adventure game and other cool stuff like that — and to some degree, we did. We sent each other our in-progress code, complained about each other’s programming-language designs, and laughed at how inefficient each others’ completely poor implementation of memory management. Most of our graphics will run, but will barely display do not RAM overload (laughs)

But, that was then.

Today, developers mostly paste libraries together. So do you, most likely, if you work in software. Doesn’t that seem anticlimactic? We did all those courses on LR grammars and concurrent software and referentially transparent functional languages. We messed about with Java, Assembly language, C and C++. We studied invariants and formal preconditions and operating system theory. Now how much of that do we use? A huge part of the job these days seems to be impedence-matching between big opaque chunks of library software that sort of do most of what a program is meant to achieve, but don’t quite work right together so I have to, I don’t know, download and include jar files, (or OCX depending on your development platform), and pray to God that I have the brilliance to use the API without disrupting other plugin I have already added. Is that programming? Really? Yes, it takes taste and discernment and experience to do well; but it doesn’t require brilliance and it doesn’t excite. It’s not what we dreamed of as freshers in school and trained for all these years. It doesn’t get the juices flowing. It’s not creation, it is so cheap.


If you don’t believe my analysis, will you believe Don Knuth? Here are a couple of extracts from his excellent interview in Peter Siebel’s book Coders at Work (which, yes, I have now finished reading):


“There’s the change that I’m really worried about: that the way a lot of programming goes today isn’t any fun because it’s just plugging in magic incantations — combine somebody else’s software and start it up. It doesn’t have much creativity. I’m worried that it’s becoming too boring because you don’t have a chance to do anything much new. Your kick comes out of seeing fun results coming out of the machine, but not the kind of kick that I always got by creating something new. The kick now is after you’ve done your boring work then all of a sudden you get a great image. But the work didn’t used to be boring.” (page 594)


“The problem is that coding isn’t fun if all you can do is call things out of a library, if you can’t write the library yourself. If the job of coding is just to be finding the right combination of parameters, that does fairly obvious things, then who’d want to go into that as a career?” (page 581)

For those of you who don't know Don Knuth - [b]Donald Ervin Knuth [/b]is an American computer scientist, mathematician, and professor emeritus at Stanford University. He is the author of the multi-volume work The Art of Computer Programming. So, are you gonna argue with Knuth? Huh? Are you? Didn’t think so.

For me, there is always a big difference between egbe and egbe (Kite and gun, as the Igbos would say). Why do big IT firms like Facebook, Twitter, Google etc go all out to create their custom tools and API when they need. Why didn't Google just use the JQuery Photo Slider plugin developed by Facebook since Facebook already has it. The answer my people is very simple: Pride of Ownership, and Joy of Creation; something we seem to have forgotten everything about. We have to go back to fundamentalism. Don't just be a consumer-developer, become a creator.

I want to make things, not just glue things together. When people ask me what I like about my job, I always say the same thing: that its the thrill of starting with nothing and making something. That, for me, is the essence of programming, and it hurts that there isn’t as much of it about as there used to be.

We all know that the most enjoyable part of a programming project is early on: when the slate is clean, the emacs buffer is empty (or the garbage collector has nothing yet to collect), and the world is fresh and alive with possibilities. And then the invigorating rush as the shape of the code starts to emerge, the data structures condense, the algorithms come together; the code becomes runnable, then it does something useful, it passes tests, and then — yes! — it’s not just an idea any more, but an actual program. You’ve completed Phase 1.

And then — anyone who’s ever actually released software will recognise this — then in a sense the actual work begins. For the program to stop being a private project and become a public product, it needs documentation — APIs, command-line manuals, tutorials. It needs unit tests. It needs a home on the web. It needs checking for portability. It needs changelogs and a release history. It needs tweaking, and quite possibly internal reorganisation to make it play nicer with other programs out there. All this is phase 2, and it’s closely related to the issues of programming culture that I talked about last time.

The thing is, no professional programmer begrudges Phase 2. We all recognise the necessity of these things, and we take pride in doing them right. It’s part of professionalism; part of being not just a computer scientist, but also a software engineer. It’s all good.

But Phase 2 is not the core of the work. It’s really all about Phase 1; and even if Phase 2 takes more effort and time, it’s still only the ‘i’s that we dot and the ‘t’s that we cross to give our beautiful code a life outside of our own computers. And the problem with modern software development is that it’s all Phase 2. The ubiquitious availability of nearly-right-but-not-quite libraries and frameworks-that-do-it-all-for-you-except-that-actually-they-don’t wipes out the exhilaration of Phase 1, but leaves us with even more of the drudgery of Phase 2. Instead of designing beautiful data-structures and elegant algorithms, we’re looking up the EnterpriseFactoryBeanMaker class in the 3,456-page Bumper Tome Of Horrible Stupid Classes (Special Grimoire Edition), because we can’t remember which of the arguments to the createEnterpriseBeanBuilderFactory() method tells it to make the public static pure virtual destructor be a volatile final abstract interface factory decorator. Pitiable and Laughable!

I understand, I think, how we landed up here. I wish I know how we can get out.

Read more blog posts from my personal blog on www.ashpotmicrosystems.com/blog. You can meet everyday at www.chat9ja.com/9jauser/PsalmsKalu