₦airaland Forum

nuzo:
Becomrich, I need job. . . . I go school.

Radiant:
LOL. . . some of them don't even know what's going on in the country until NEPA or whatever their name these days allow them to hit NL.

2Legit2Qui:
Nigerians abroad are the reasons why Nigerian is painted black and blue by the international community, they thus have no reason to talk about Nigeria being bad- they contribute to the problem and what moral right do they have to call Nigeria hell hole, jungle etc?

logica:
It was no low blow, and with the above post you have taken C# fan-boyism to the zenith. The response you had to my demonstration of the advantage of a verbose use of the import directive is a case in point. You have no clear understanding of what you tout, and that is what fan-boyism is all about.

2Legit2Qui:
You remit home to feed your family- do you deserve a national award for that? Nigeria will not die if you fail to send money home, beside, you are paying back the money you raised from your family to travel, so whats the point making it a big deal? Abeg, scratch my butt hole, you send money back home and so what?

Refused visa, this is the ultimate rant- where have you been that others havent been or better? It is lack of anything good to say that makes you think someone is a deportee or refused visa to travel, it is a baby talk, hold no water. say something else.

logica:
There's a reason I called him a fan-boy.

candylips:
@Beaf

Most of the innovation in Java actually comes from the Open source Community. Sun hasn't done a good job in improving Java in recent years i was actually one of those people happy that about the recent takeover

Radiant:
So, only those who live in Nigeria can judge correctly? What a very weak conclusion.

How do you guys living in Nigeria know about what's going on if not for the media? That's also how we get our info and strength to argue.

Besides, what are you guys saying? That the country is not as bad as we see and hear everyday? Got a better picture for us?

scottN:
If u check around (esp on the web) on issues relating to enterprise application development, references are always being made to J2EE. This framework is used as a benchmark for enterprise applications. .NET is just playing catch up in this aspect application devpt. .NET's framework's strength lies in its aesthetics and making writing applications easier and intuitive by employing drag and drop principles (of which IDEs like NetBeans is now doing).Java is generally regarded as a verbose language.However Java IDE's of nowadays are fast catching up or almost at par with the .NET IDEs in terms of ease of use and developer's experience. Now I'm not saying that you cannot use .NET to build enterprise applications but ask yourself this question, why is J2EE regarded as the de-facto standard in enterprise application development?

walakolobo:
Thank you Afam- a place they dont know about, they call it jungle, hell, failed system, they refer to Nigeria as "that country", they think they have all the knowledge, they are far worse where they are, but they think they are living in paradise- but to be honest, if you look at these ones who describe Nigeria as hell, they are the ones who lived in the villages before they travelled, the ones who couldnt even step inside a shopping mall, now find themselves shopping in Tesco, in Sainsbury, in big shopping malls and suddenly, they remember they couldnt do so at home . . .

Bariga1:
Beaf,

Is it that they irritate or the truth irritates you guys living back home in Nigeria?

It is amazing how less than 300,000 corrupt politicians and ex-military officers can hold the country hostage, when we have a population of over 150 million.

Just shows the level of greed pervading our country. People are happy to keep silent as long as they are picking the crumbs from the table.

Change will come with a big bang!!! Watch out!!!!

mogentle:
Escaped to the Creeks, Beaf, Beaf, Beaf, Come out now and
face Becomrich b4 the count of,

Afam:
Majority of Nigerians living outside Nigeria that tend to discuss issues concerning Nigeria in my opinion are not at home with the reality on ground and most of the comments coming from these group of people are at best false and half truths. . .

Ghenghis:
check out these blogs

http://my.opera.com/zomg/blog/2007/08/18/verbose-programming
http://lesscode.org/2005/12/28/verbosity/

If you think about languages like Visual Basic which are naturally more verbose than PHP or C with constructs ending usually in end construct-name and not { } you can immediately see how much easier it is to comprehend the code, especially for beginner programmers.

The verbosity of Java code also encourages developers to implement more abstractions and reusable components. The ease of coding in some languages often results in more code, in my experience. It’s easier to just write more code than to stop and think about reusable solutions. In Java and other verbose languages, ‘coding for the moment’ is a losing strategy.

jek1471:
I have used winsock it did not solve the problem. Winsock seems to have a lot of limitations. It does not even work well.I even checked documentations online and found out that a lot of people also have the same problem with winsock - it does not work well
I still need help

I really wonder what you want to know again. I developed this application. It is an inventory application. It runs very well on a single system but I want to network it and it's giving me a hell of problems. Funny enough I've been able to network the hotel management system I developed using the same vb6 in the same location but the Inventory system is not responding fine.

It keeps giving me the error:

error 3051 - "The Microsoft Jet database engine cannot open the file <name>. It is
already opened exclusively by another user, or you need permission to view its data. (Error 3051)"

candylips:
Has .NET 4 been released or is it still in beta

I like Java but i am more of a fan of the JVM. I know the limitations of Java in the client side that was why i said earlier that it is more useful on the server side. What I am tryin to evalute with you is how PHP is better than Java on the server side

Mind you. it is not all systems that are for the web. There are a whole lot of complex software systems that do not require any form of GUI or a web front end at all. Interaction is strictly from the command line

Kobojunkie:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd460693(VS.100).aspx

blandish:
You call it a racial slur, I call it a description, if you live abroad, or whereevr the f*** you live where the word half cast is not acceptable, that does not mean it is not acceptable in nigeria,

half of what you ask.

Half of white and half of black I say!!!

The problem with you uptight lot is that you always want to create an issue where there is none, do you realise that 99% nigerians refer to a mixed race/mullato as a half caste are you now telling me that the entire nation is racist??, and do not bother asking where I got that statistic from except you are daft!!!!, Only when you cross the border to UK or US do you realise that they do not accept dem words, Hence my reason for saying people do not always mean bad, to nigerians, it is a description.

logica:
" It is merely to point out that verbosity has its benefits, and there is usually a rationale behind it."

". . . a moderately verbose approach"

Where in those quotes of mine above did I say "Verbose is ALWAYS acceptable" or "Verbose always lead to BETTER readability" (inverting your assertions)?

I demonstrated using an example the usefulness of verbosity in Java. You should demonstrate where verbosity is not useful, using examples.

candylips:
. . .Also there are many more very good Java Developers (and many more interesting Projects)and from my experience some of the better .Net developers were actually previously Java guys.