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Mobile Apps development fascinates me and here's my little advice: since you're a PHP programmer, i would'nt know if you've done a little bit of OOP in PHP, if yes, then hurdle one passed or else you need a good understanding of OOP(except in some cases) if you want to delve into this unpopular(at least in Nigeria) but lucrative territory. Starting with the language of choice so as to avoid cross compatibility issues, JAVA; yes JAVA's J2ME MIDP platform runs on most devices(Nokia with it's Symbian OS, an array of 3rd party phone makers running the Android OS - like Samsung, LG, HTC & many more and finally Research in Motions Blackberry), except in the case of the iPhone's iOS operating system. I hated Java during my uni days, maybe becos everybody's singing about it likewise PHP, and funny enough it's not that i don't have experience with these, at least i have built drupal themes with PHP, i just don't go with the crowd and so i do Perl and Nokia's Symbian OS has made me learn Python. Back to what am driving at, you don't need to fully learn J2ME for you to program these devices, my backgroup of OOP C++ helped me and so the learning curve was not much. These devices run propietary Operating Systems and so they all have API's exposed for developers. Blackberry and Android OS use Java like syntax that closely looks like Java's J2ME and Nokia's devices are Java Enabled, and so you see Java covers a lot of ground. Since Java looks a lot like C++, getting to know OOP C++ will help you if you don't want to bother yourself at all learning Java, because you'll still meet a new syntax of Java when you work with the SDK's provided by these devices. The problem is iOS that runs on Apple's iPhone line of products, this OS publishes the Cocoa API that uses objective-C, you can Google that up for more information. But the Nokia Symbian OS, Series 60 to be exact has a Python port called pyS60, that allows native development of apps to be done using the Python Programming Language. It actually allows the python interpreter to be installed on devices running the Series 60 version of it's OS. The native development language used in programming Nokia devices running the symbian OS is C++, but you can also use OpenC. Maybe you Google most of these things and see what you can find. Now after you're through with language issues, you now download their SDK's from each of these devices developer sites. You'll need the eclipse IDE, blackberry has a Blackberry Plugin IDE suitable for it's platform only, Nokia uses the Carbide C++ or Qt IDE. These files are large, and takes time installing especially Android's SDK, and so you need a fast internet connection.

Kai na waoooooo, so intercontinental is gone, all d work erastus has done blown away. 330 branches, kai hmmmmmm, lessons have been learnt.

Is this meant to be funny? :@Lets be careful about prophesying negatively for this country; but coming to think of it, i read in yesterdays guardian about the gross mismanagement of subsidy funds - this was actually deliberated on the floor of the upper chambers of the national assembly, Olusola Saraki actually raised a motion to that effect, saying that 240Billion Naira was actually budgeted for the 2011 fiscal year in regards to fuel subsidy, but as we speak 1.3 Trillion Naira has so far been spent on fuel subsidy. I think government is just trying to put this mismanagement in check rather than have the refineries work, so the masses suffer the more. Their inability to turn around the deplorable state of the refineries led to importation of petroleum products and then fuel subsidy in the first place. Things might get worse when fuel subsidy is removed, but i quite disagree with most of the postulations so far stated. Comical they all seem, lets just make ourselves happy.

May his humble soul rest in peace. The reflections for me is this; that the life of a man consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth. (John 12:15) The life is worth more than meat, (v23)and this life that ends abruptly here can only be continued in the life more abundant found in Christ Jesus our Lord.

yes, i like the word PRIME MINISTER. The bottom line is, with Okonjo there, a check is in place.

ZUBBYNWA

This is nonsense

In what sense?

Scam Buhari my foot.

Please Sir, can you please expatiate more, is it Scam or the Word Scum, intended?

If it's their backbone, then the entire GLO network in Nigeria will be affected. Don't misinform people.
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i think it is, i've been trying to call a destination glo line in jos, all to no avail. i had to call an alternative MTN line, and the other party in jos confirmed that glo is having problems down there too.

dat ahmadu ali laugh dey make my laugh to continue laughing na wicked laugh be dat chei
this picture might not even signify that they're actually mocking at atiku, but the @poster got it spot on
dis kind laugh go pepper atiku for body - like when children de mock one another

@post - "Church Gate Fee: Pastors Condemn Oyakhilome"
they should not, the Bible condemns those that do - II Peter 2:1-22

am not surprised - II Peter 2:1-3

i can only say in terms of programming IT is harder, because at 30+ i have already started growing white beards,you think after writing a single file of perl module i.e an execution file that consists of 34,385 lines of coded instruction your life will remain the same, or the perl executable that is made up of 100,00 thousand or so of C Code, not to talk of the man hours put into it, if it fails you try again, and again, and again and so on , ,  damn stressful, you got to get results before the battery power shuts down and all that. Yes am talking from an IT perspective and you can term me biased if you like, i wouldn't know how medicine is stressful, but i think surgeons sweat it out, but to a greater extent they even rely on IT specialists when all their devices are embedded software programmed by programmers (using ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE or the C PROGRAMMING LANG) or even using industrial SCADA software, not to even mention all the space probes and life and time critical softwares that propel these shuttles. for example the canadarm (canadian arm of the international space station ISS) that remotely manipulates astronauts during space walks are all programmed by IT gurus. but wait ohh, i stated earlier about trying again, and again and again if a program fails during development. but in medicine if you fail oboy person fit die! hah! - i think the practise of medicine is very critical and not hard as programming, and also the yardstick for comparison should be clearly stated by the poster. we can't use university years to judge if one is harder than the other. Programming aspect of 'IT' is harder than medicine, while the practise of medicine itself is more critical that IT. Being critical doesn't mean hard. A programmer ages faster than a medical doctor.
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painful as this development seems, i wish the IKEMBA well.

he has just realized that he's the Commander-in-Chief, his toothlessness should be eroding by now as we approach 2011, but i think he was all this while being careful, anyway he got me when he spoke about leaders absconding with their families when trouble or political chaos erupts - i must say Goodluck is really grassroots, we need people like him, he seems to think like the average Nigerian does, he just needs time, and we Nigerians need patience. Atiku will offer us nothing. my votes goes to GEJ.

i think it's better for Akunyili not to venture into grassroot politics, it's a dangerous territory - after all the accolades, awards and world recognition; i wonder what she even want's i know she might say she want's to help her people, but the way that APGA man was sounding, it seems it going to be murky

i wonder who went and did the arithmetic for him after all these days, mschew   it's just plain and clear 25% is not justifiable for a house that cannot table the cries and aspirations of average Nigerians on the floor of the house, and if truly he was quoted as saying this "CBN Steals More Than We Do", has he finally agreed that they steal?

DADDY - The Man never gave me a free hand on the cars at home, maybe because i was 18 back then, and more recently he machinated  my coming to Lagos to go and get a job, never regretted it anyway.
MUMMY -  hmmmm she poke noses alot, everyone of my friends that comes around she'll wan't to just come and have a look, either for their face(catch a glimpse), know their personality or parents, she just want's to come around, so spiritual; she can make judgements about everything (point accusing fingers), and also you dare not go near her new pot of soup, or whatsoever she prepares, she loves and want's to handle the spoon herself. Uhhhhhhhhh

DADDY+MUMMY - they never allowed me to stay away from home pertaining schooling. was a day student all my life. even thru the university, they never agreed for hostel life. Finally, the expectant look on their faces for your apology when you've offended them , especially daddy's uhhhhhhhhh pains me.

ANYWAY   I  LOVE THEM BOTH

Nigeria is so sickening!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
while this news is disheartening!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How can something of national importance be handled with so much brevity, leaving zinox to import and all that?
total RUBBISH!!!

would that be trevia tech or tavia tech. We'll maybe the company i work for now didn't pay enough money, but the site i inherited from the last claws of what tavia or trevia did, was nothing to write home about.
feed your retina: - www.xlmanagementservices.com

the way i see it, this is a case of category. Maybe a change in the implementation of your site's userbility would do. An HTML select tag might do the trick. like i said this is a case of category. users can be categorized on anything you want, that criteria should do the redirection. i as a user might have registered with the subdomain, let's say products.xxxxxxx.com, and another user with marketing.xxxxxxxx.com and finally lets say sales.xxxxxx.com. And now when a user visits the root site at www.xxxxxxx.com, a descriptive text should guide the user to use the select element's dropdown values to choose which of the site's he like to login to. An onChange() javascript event handler will have to be added to this select tag, which eventually handles the redirection. well this approach will be null & void if your users will have to login into 3 different websites at once. but the drama of just clicking a link and suddenly 3 pages pop up will be bewildering to the user. believe me there are better approaches to handle things like this, like DHTML. Web 2.0 enable the user to have a sweet experience while browsing, don't scare away your users.

The swiss army knife or duct tape of the internet deserves little introduction.
hello perlmongers!

can you be a little more detailed please and state what you are really confused about? Is it the nature and operation of CGI Scripts in a webspace or how to actually code the implementation? is it how the layout works or how to qualify the url to the handler script in an html form tag?

i have always really admired Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa. A true leader to say the least.