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Kobojunkie:
There is a difference between a TERSE LANGUAGE and writing TERSE CODE. Same way there is a difference between a language being VERBOSE and a developer writing VERBOSE CODE.
Verbose languages leave wide room for introduction of bugs during development; you notice code is less MANAGEABLE, increase in testing time, as well as resource consumption, and in some cases less readable code.

.NET Languages are not necessarily all Terse. Many of the languages give you the flexibility to choose to write verbose code, but with the option to go the other way if you really wanted to save time, effort (reduce development and testing time), and increase throughput.

Hehe. You really do have choices.
eg, you can can create or overwrite a text file, using a built in .NET function in a single line of code, like so;
File.WriteAllText(string path, string contents);

Or suffer in a "javalike" way like so;
public static void WriteAllText(string path, string text, Encoding encoding)
{
    if(String.IsNullOrEmpty(text)
    {
        return;// better to raise an error here
    }
    using (StreamWriter streamWriter = new StreamWriter(path, false, encoding))
    {
        streamWriter.Write(text);
    }
}

private static bool IsNullOrEmpty(string text)
{
    if (text != null)
    {
        return (text.Length == 0);
    }
    return true;
}

[quote author=THE-AMAKA link=topic=335754.msg4880263#msg4880263 date=1257624923]lol i forgot
you are a Delta Boy, right?[/quote]Repping 100%!

Go to Warri and fall in love

No Igbos's in my immediate family yet

[quote author=THE-AMAKA link=topic=335754.msg4880039#msg4880039 date=1257622090]hmmmm ive been viewing skyscapper city for a while.
i must say the thing i like about Warri is their taxis.
the nice blue and white ones.
compared to those ugly yellow jaga jaga ones you will see all over lagos and the ugly danfos. lol
but im guessing Lag has changed though and they are now upgrading and being a litte eco friendly (+++) with the red and blue buses and such.

_{i shall come to comment again. lol}[/quote]May I also add that Warri boasts airconditioned buses to waft pretty babes along? And rugged guys to coo you to bed?

. . .Who even cares about lagos?

My dear, let your lovely legs carry you straight to Warri; my younger barrel chested, 6ft 6 hunk of a brother is waiting with red roses and wine. . .

logica:
Are you sure you know what you are talking about? Verbosity actually leads to less bugs. A terse language is more likely to incur bugs than a verbose one. Reason being the terseness leads to complexity of expressions and therefore confuse developers.

Try coding a modestly complex app in the most verbose of them all, assembler. . . And experience a truly useless way to fry the mind .

These are the statistics for only armed robberies for which "roger" wasn't collected.

We need to face the man squarely for what he said (bearing in mind that this is very old and outdated news).

We also need to be civilised and not attack any ethnicity. If Ika people call themselves Igbo, who are we to deny them their ethnicity? To the best of my knowledge, they have always been called Ika Igbo, Bendel Igbo or Delta Igbo.
Igbo is Igbo, leave wahala jare.

logica:
Wow! I've heard it all. Verbosity leads to a proliferation of frameworks?

No, kobo is saying; verbosity leads to directly to bugs, sweat and blood. In order to avoid this, several frameworks have been built to address specific issues (only to be forked, then re-forked, then re-re-forked, thus blowing the brains of its developer victim's ).

logica:
Anybody who knows enough about the development of Java as a language will tell you that Java was actually considered even stronger on the client-side (applets) than on the server-side circa 1999. At the moment, the client-side is almost done with, and it has matured into a solid server-side development language.

Its is more complicated than that. Both java applets and activex were a conduit for security problems, so they fell out of favour. That left desktop java to compete with other technologies; java products turned out to be slow and ugly (a no-no for users), so java was ditched as a desktop technology. That leaves the internet; in the beginning, there was j this and j that, but all quickly lost out to ease of use, security and performance etc of ASP.NET (to all who could afford steep MS lisences). Finally leaving java to exist primarily on linux servers, where it has the advantage of being free. . . But Mono is gaining useful market share here as well.

All the above is not to say java doesn't have its strengths, the latest incarnation seems to have caught up with C#'s performance in some areas, but its too little, too late. It has a mountain to climb in functionality; perhaps java can still make a place for itself in poorer countries where no one can argue with the price of free; but for quality? Its been left behind.

All these useless primates sha. They just read newspapers, watch news on the telly. . . Then start "prophesying" obvious things.

Pay your tithes

There is obviously something the FG is missing (matter of fact, it is several things) that could make an individual so committed to both his country, company and fellow humans: he is a completely balanced individual.

Tadashi Yamashina, senior managing director and head of Toyota’s motor racing unit, said through tears that he was sorry for Toyota’s racers, especially the team’s Japanese reserve driver, Kamui Kobayashi. Toyota’s main drivers for the 2009 season were Jarno Trulli of Italy and Timo Glock of Germany.

“The drivers have grown, together with the team,” he said, trailing off as his eyes welled with tears. He spent the rest of the news conference heaving and sighing and dabbing his eyes with a handkerchief.

Alongside Yamanashi, Toyoda, a member of the company’s founding family who took over in June, presented himself as a realist who was not afraid of making tough decisions. “I have always been one of motor sport’s most ardent supporters,” he said. “But since becoming president, my responsibilities have changed. I felt that we needed to shift the company’s resources. Eco-friendly cars are our top priority.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/05/sports/autoracing/05prix.html

What a guy! What a guy!

Tadashi Yamashina is not a spirit, neither is he made off special stuff, it is just a coincidence that he was born in a country with the right circumstances for him to very rightly rise to the top. It is certain that a man of his fibre would be to "weak" to make it in the brutish environment Nigeria currently offers. Needless to say, he is at the top in one of the most successful companies to grace the Earth; the area he was involved in (Formula 1) is so advanced, that it hooks into national defense, space, aeronautical, automobile and other cutting edge technologies.

If the FG can get it right, there will be no end to citizens willing to sacrifice their all, both for the country and for their comrades. Development is not mechanical, it is more a societal / community thing,  more to do with cooperation to build to higher heights. If citizens gain a feeling of belonging and are respected, they will push for their collective benefit and drive development.

We can change things if we try, positive ways forward (without the corrupt FG) need to be identified. We too can get there.

chidichris:
the most shameful things here is that an ordinary woman brought him down.
what ribadu could not do, farida has done with a pinch of salt.
farida, you have entered your name in the good and great women's of nigeria and africa as a whole.
at least, we have the okonjos and the ettehs so nigerian women can be wonderful in their various areas of endeavours.

No woman is ordinary.

posakosa:
Its not miniscule; it the fastest metrics to measuring and documenting growth and development.

While generation of jobs/taxes are a solid measure of economic wellbeing that can't be washed away, they are in no way a measure of development. For instance, a country might generate stupendous wealth from minerals, but remain undeveloped (e.g. Gabon).

These are unemployment rate figures for various countries, in various states of development:
[list]
[li]Thailand - 1.40%[/li]
[li]Cuba - 1.60%[/li]
[li]Russia - 6.40%[/li]
[li]United States - 7.20[/li]
[li]South Africa - 22.90%[/li]
[/list]
Source: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2129rank.html

In no way are, Thailand, Cuba, Russia more developed than the US. Also, South Africa is much more developed than Cuba.

logica:
Apparently, you don't know what a century is, or you are one of those whose MO is unnecessary exaggerations. Either way, it's not worth it joining issues with you.

What exaggeration? Last century ended in 1999.

Try these pages. There are a few open source (and commercial) dummy data generators listed in the discussions.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/157600/data-generators-for-sql-server
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16317/creating-test-data-in-a-database

candylips:
^^^ Java rules in server side development. Especially when developing medium to complex systems

Last century, that was true. These days, .NET rules.

^
If you don't need millions of rows, will Adventureworks or Northwind help?

I don't believe anyone can genuinely compare C# and Java. Why?
Java is verbose, cranky, cobwebbed, ugly, slow, stuck in the last century. . . Some years ago, all banking software was done in Java; today? Its all C#.

Next thing, people will start arguing the benefits of pearl and PHP over C#. Abeg, carry go!

@javarules I know you love your Java and you think the programmer makes all the difference, but it isn't necessarily so. Take for example, the number of primitive types supported by both languages (which would you prefer for real-time enterprise work?), also compare the IDE's, debugging possibilities etc. Sure, the programmer matters, but you can make a difference by giving him a bulldozer instead of a hoe I know thats a bit low sha .

You can get formatted, random data with very little effort.
All you have to do is generate random text and numbers for each field, to your target formats and lengths. Then you generate the sql using loops; alternatively, you could add rows to a datatable/dataset while you loop (that way, you can dump xml as well as test-run before db population).
You can be done in an hour.

. . .Real car, real cow. Video here

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7837920.stm

redsun:
U got a lot to learn.

That is true and I am very eager and willing. But not from someone whose inspiration lies in the embers of the practice below.

www.nairaland.com/attachments/195398_weed_big_jpgce2f52c14928d377011d5238959dfdbb

Kid, run along now. I'm done with you.

redsun:
Just imagine things that make sense to you,mumu.

Bomboy agitating for rights.

Don't take it personally now . I'm just a "child" making an "adult" look like the fool he is.

redsun:
Always towing the line of failed precedences,never can think because the mind is undeveloped.

You are 100% right! Your mind does not benefit from this;

[quote author=becomrich, link=topic=346255.msg4876473#msg4876473 date=1257547769]have you ever heard of Major-General Mirisho Sarakikya ,fmr Chief of the Tanzanian defence forces, one of the Sarakikya is my very good friend, they are a powerful military family in tanzania. He did his master at leads university (london) before coming to canada, i went to school with him in canada. He use to joke that, if tanzania had nigeria oil, we would all be living in tanzania.[/quote]You mean, you are the guy who washes his car, empties the bin and does the odd jobs around the garden. . .

www.nairaland.com/attachments/180447_ROTFLMAO_gif3d0c775232c7f27cf80592785b9635b6

Free yourself.

honeric01: He wont be killed, America don't favor death penalty or am i wrong? the worse is to be jailed for life.

Then the bastard better commit suicide to get the 72 pusssies.

redsun:
If i come to nigeria,i will either live like a rational king or i die.

Ignorant bullshit.

Ken Saro Wiwa was a "rational king"; so were the 9 others executed with him; so were the the inhabitants of the 20 communities erased by "fellow Nigerians"; so were the 50,000 innocent souls, snuffed out by those who should have kept them secure.

There is little point engaging your mindset in any form of discussion. All I can I advice you is, read through the contributions of those from the ND on this thread, and deduce if they think your "far from reality" stance is useful to their welfare. Let that be your cue, I bow out.

redsun:
I know that guy into-to,he is a bit of every thing,good,bad,ugly,ball player,authoritative,kind,mean,crude,civilize,every thing put together,he is typical nigerian,but not totally in a foolish way.

In as much as what he said is seen as sensitive but deep down,the militants seems to be as greedy,visionless,purposeless,selfish and as child like as the people they are fighting.

The problem of nigeria is concept,people don't seem to understand the fundamental meanings of life.It is not something to fight for,but something to live out for the good and comfort of all.You don't fight for what belongs to you,we have enough to go round but what we lack is common sense,good old intelligence.

Ignorant bullshit.

redsun:
Haven't you heard of systematic elimination boy?.If the militant have the fire power they claim to have,they can undertake such mission without making the problem worse for the people,but because they themselves are corrupt and motiveless,they won't have the liver to take care of corrupt people.

Yet more bullshit.

redsun:
The militants should be picking out known corrupt politician,whether an huasa,yoruba,igbo,delta or edo miscreants,instead of sabotaging installations and putting the lives of innocent nigerians in more jeopardy.

War is barbaric,it is crude option,there are better ways to solve problems

Contradictory bullshit.

reindeer:
But wait
is this a fresh report? there's a date at the top of the post 06.04.09
If its not fresh, why would anyone bring up such a topic except to cause trouble.i just wonder.

Well spotted! I have to beat myself up for being the first to jump.

SapeleGuy:
Exactly, expired news to cause disharmony in Delta State. Add to that the denial of Ika heritage and some war stories and you can see where this could all end up.

Its gone quite some distance already. . .

posakosa:
what form of development do u speak of ? its about much more but an essential part of economic development is about creating jobs/generating taxes for the government.

It encompasses all definitions of development. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developed_country (the real deal). How, when and what can we do to measure up?

Creating jobs/generating taxes is a miniscule portion of development. It is more about completeness; the condition of the national psyche for one, how we approach and tackle issues, investment in intellectual knowledge as a resource etc.

sjeezy8:
Yes indeed but at the same time paying taxes.

Aliko Dangote is the richest man in Africa. If the above holds true, why are the states where he has business interests not developed? If he has created job opportunities, why are they so stunted that so few can key in (contrast with Silicon Valley or Las Vegas)? What is missing?

Pentagon wants insect-like nano-drones

The U.S. agency responsible for future weapons technology, DARPA, has ordered the creation of an insect-sized flying machine capable of carrying out surveillance. The news was revealed by the project contractor, AeroVironment, in a press-release.

Top generals hope it will lead to a so-called Nano Air Vehicle. The flying machine is to be only 7cm long, weighing just 10g. The device will mimic an ordinary insect.

The James Bond like scheme has already cost the U.S. military more then $2.3 million.

The hand-launched device will be used for security, surveillance, reconnaissance and other indoor and outdoor missions.

The Californian firm is to create a working prototype in half a year.