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Hi All,
I am looking at hiring at least two web builders/ programmers.
I am building a news portal and already have the layout designed but need to build the actual HTML pages that will integrate with my Editorial CMS system.
I need people that are very good with CSS, Accessibility and web pages.
You must have knowledge of building C# applications as I will be also be build two web based applications.
The organisation is based in Lagos, this is a permanent role and the prospects are good.
Send me your information to support@234Next.com

gozzilla:
Ayinkus are you trying to kill the thread or discourage the group.
no software is perfect and no software that can not be improved on. keep up the work kobo and b not discouraged
the power of free software is in its ability to be updated at all time. all the university portals are just there update is slow and the interface is always terrible.

am in for the spirit this represents abit late but like some one said even if it is just to sit and look. am in.at least we are coming up.it reminds me of the unijos geek thing.but i think we will succeed.

this is just to say don't be discourage it is too early my friends.

email me the registration link nwolisag@yahoo.com expecting kobo and yinka to keep this job on.

@gozzilla, far from discouraging the group, it was merely information that I was privileged to.
It is also a discussion point, as we now know that the government in it's own way is also thinking like we are. Providing systems to share information.

I will elaborate on what I saw, this will give us an idea what and how we can produce something much better. I agree no software package is perfect but at least we can now understand the height of the bar we need to surpass.

Hello All,
Sorry for my lack of recent communication.

I have been in Nigeria and I am writing this from the airport on my way back to the UK.

Whilst in Nigeria, I had the opportunity to meet a department which goes by NESTG, meeting with the assistant commissioner.
This department is responsible for e-enabling government and had made some in roads to meeting the objective

During one the meetings I had, they demoed a web and PC based application called eSchools. It's main function is for single point to get information on primary and secondary schools in Nigeria.
The application which is almost finished is to start UAT (User testing) in the next month or so in OYO state.

It covers the application space we had identified in this thread and goes on a little bit further as a resource for parents to get information on schools, teachers, class sizes etc

I will add more information once I get back into the UK

Yes we can, look out for my reply

Ladies and Gentlemen,
I believe in starting.

Can I have by a show of hand those interested in and have the time to participate in this project.

My aim will be to produce a highlevel project plan showing only the items that might be relevant at this time, we will elaborate as we get a better understanding of what we are trying to do.

With your indulgence, I have some requests and some principles

We need a name for our team, please let me have your suggestions As soon as; Personally I like 'The collective
We need a name for our System (application)
Could I also have a short summary off your skill sets.
Please provide
[list]
[li]What you can do[/li]
[li]What you would like to do[/li]
[li]What you do not want to do[/li]
[/list]
Must be project related

Lets us be professional to one another at all times
Lets sometimes agree to disagree

Are we all in agreement that the programming language will be C#?
The database server be MS SQL?

We need to build on this, so I am expecting your contributions

Have a great weekend

Kobojunkie:
Anyone have experience writting a Project plan /SOW

Hi KoboJunkie,
I am not at this time interested in the money that can be made from this project but I am a realist. I find it better to understand all the areas of future concern now, get them out of the way and move forward.

I can take on the task of creating a project plan. Do we have an online area where we can put group documents?
I know you have mentioned source control but we are some way off from starting to code.

If I suggest compiling a list of team members (resources), identify what are trying to achieve and then start assigning people to these tasks with deadlines.

We can communicate using free voip services (Yahoo, MSN, Skype or plain VOIP (ip to ip)).

Let me know your thoughts ( yinka_a@hotmail.com)

Hi,
If your application runs in a domain environment, then you should have a DNS server, if not you need to edit your hosts file within the windows\system32 folder.
Here you put
DBServerIP Alias
For example
10.10.10.1 TestDBServer

You then use the server name TestDBServer in your connection string thus aliasing the actual server identity.
I normally have an entry named data that points at the server running my SQL2005 server, means if you get hacked someone won't find your DB server easily.

Let me know exactly what you are trying to do and I am sure I can help you out

Hi @Kobojunkie,
I am interested in what you are planning to undertake but would like to clarify some issues that have been bugging me since I saw your initial post.
Who is going to own the IP for the program?
How will enhancements required by different schools be managed in the development of the application i.e one school want feature A whilst another school does want that feature but something completely different?
Security- This is a major concern of mine (being a security specialist). The data being held is very important to the people involved

This has the potential of becoming very big and interested parties might offer to take over the project and application, has anyone thought about the commercials - give it away, sell it or refuse totally?

I have been building distributed applications for over 10years ( past 7 focused on the web) and know what you plan is achievable but will have issues in controlling development, enhancements and maintenance.

I hope we can have a discussion around the items raised so we are clear on how to get to where we need to go!
I would definitely like to participate

Hey, what do you need to know?

Hi,
You need to give a bit more information as to what you might have changed or installed. You could boot into safe mode and note the processes running and then boot into normal Windows and do a comparism.

Avast is good, i use it myself so it does detect most virus signatures

Hi Dynast,

In your application you should have a connection object similar to dim cn As New ADODB.connection
cn is your object that set it's properties.
Provider,Security, catalogue and server.

As the application is deployed to each machine, each user's machine will know how to connect to the database server.
Each connection will allow the user to perform the database tasks as defined in your application. It is as simple as that.
If you really want to make things easy and the application will run over a domain, use an alias for the database server which can be resolved via DNS so you do not have to go to each machine if you need to change the location of the database server. i hope this make sense?

Let me know if you need more help

The data source or reference will change to the location of the server hosting your database. I am making the assumpting that you are use a relational database system i.e. MS Sql, Oracle or MySql?
Your connection manager will manage concurrent users and connection pooling. You will have to watch out for multi-user updates on your database records

It will be as complicated as you want to make it. Most systems are very simple when broken down to its basics

Hi,
What about designing and creating a simple rules based application that can be a simple as one form (or web page) Application.
You will have to create another page to maintain the rules and there weighting

Imagine a loans application process that asks the user for personal and previous financial history via a form. You write the application to process the information and score it according to the rules behind your application form.
The rules become the risk manager and can be altered depending on the criteria.

If has great use in Insurance, Banking and any other sector that measures risk based on information provided.

If you need help let me know.

Good luck